Thread: r380 strength on paper vs reality

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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