First off i must acknowledge that you guys are a bad influence. In a good way, not a bank balance way.
Like the rest of my car i'm trying to avoid potential disasters by doing everything as well as possible first time round. The buy once, cry once deal.
So one monster oil cooler.
Setrab 960 all the way from the USA caus no one seems to stock anything that big in Australia that i could find.
Ford Performance engine take off for -12 fittings. Realise there may need to be some grinding to get the block outlet to line up and transition smoothly. Been reading a lot from you guys doing this before me and post the problems.
New lower radiator hose to delete the water oil heat exchanger. The only part i managed to buy direct in Australia. Fedex and UPS know me by name now.
Improved Racing remote filter and thermostat with -12 fittings
While looking through the thermostat i saw a few items that are a function of simple production machining.
Is it worth spending the time and rounding the sharp edges ( red arrows) and removing the excess threads in the housing to just clean up the oil flow.
Machining down the protruding threaded tube from the filter attachment.
Figure it cant hurt, assuming i clean the crap out of it afterwards. Anything to give an engine a fighting chance. It may be stock but i will push it to its limits.
It is only going to cost me time unless anyone has some reasons why its not worth it.
I work on electrical systems so the level of detail required for engine work is a total blank for me. I know clean is good, cleaner is better.
Thanks
Like the rest of my car i'm trying to avoid potential disasters by doing everything as well as possible first time round. The buy once, cry once deal.
So one monster oil cooler.
Setrab 960 all the way from the USA caus no one seems to stock anything that big in Australia that i could find.
Ford Performance engine take off for -12 fittings. Realise there may need to be some grinding to get the block outlet to line up and transition smoothly. Been reading a lot from you guys doing this before me and post the problems.
New lower radiator hose to delete the water oil heat exchanger. The only part i managed to buy direct in Australia. Fedex and UPS know me by name now.
Improved Racing remote filter and thermostat with -12 fittings
While looking through the thermostat i saw a few items that are a function of simple production machining.
Is it worth spending the time and rounding the sharp edges ( red arrows) and removing the excess threads in the housing to just clean up the oil flow.
Machining down the protruding threaded tube from the filter attachment.
Figure it cant hurt, assuming i clean the crap out of it afterwards. Anything to give an engine a fighting chance. It may be stock but i will push it to its limits.
It is only going to cost me time unless anyone has some reasons why its not worth it.
I work on electrical systems so the level of detail required for engine work is a total blank for me. I know clean is good, cleaner is better.
Thanks
