r380 strength on paper vs reality

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Originally Posted by djam1

I couldn't speak highly enough of Castrol Syntrans for the R380

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X2.
Regards
Robbo

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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Yes it may be a loop of tube, but it adds volume to the oil quantity and uses the chassis as a heat sink. It is also why I suggested you could increase the size of the oil cooler in my first post.

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I don't deny that. I was answering a question as to whether the R380 cooler was the same as one fitted to an auto, clearly it isn't.

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Originally Posted by BigJon

I don't deny that. I was answering a question as to whether the R380 cooler was the same as one fitted to an auto, clearly it isn't.

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And you could quite easily use the auto cooler as an R380 cooler and use most of the same fittings and pipes.

This is what I did it seems to work fine

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/90-110-130...il-cooler.html

My pictures are long gone but if you look towards the bottom of the page goingbush has a couple of good pics

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Originally Posted by BigJon

The ones I have seen are just a steel pipe which runs forwards to the front of the engine (or thereabouts) and back to the gearbox. No proper cooler as such.

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Old thread I know but saw this and need to post. The D2's I have seen with the R380 run a proper oil cooler matrix not a bit of pipe.



Cheers

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Originally Posted by ozscott

Old thread I know but saw this and need to post. The D2's I have seen with the R380 run a proper oil cooler matrix not a bit of pipe.



Cheers

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