Adding Oil Coolers and Heat Exchangers

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There are several areas that you should focus on when picking an "oil cooler" or heat exchanger.



These are often needed on OEM cars that are run on a road course, especially when power levels are increased. Here's some tips we mined from a recent email to a customer......

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In Session 2 I heard weird noises under braking, and cut it short after only 2 hot laps, but found a half second to the 2:25.1 range (fixed a loose bolt after this session). Session 3 after lunch went a little better, with a 2:24.6. Still ways back in T2 class from...

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For Session 2, Matt was gridded P1 and I was P2 in our Time Attack group of LA4-LA5 cars, but we agreed to switch places on the out lap so we wouldn't hold each other up (as his tires take many laps to come up to temp). It worked, and my quickest lap was on my first...

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Project Update for May 31st, 2023: I waited to long to update the build thread so I broke it up over a couple of weeks. In this post we cover build progress, TT competitions and even an autocross from August of '22 through October of '22. We also began to wind down development work, as we were quickly...

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So after the first TT session that Amy drove the BRZ in, I also took it out in a different TT sessions twice (they have "Red" and "Green" TT sessions, split based on classes / speed). The times going CW are usually about 1 second slower...

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RACERX UPPER REAR CONTROL ARMS

We would normally go straight to SPL Parts and get their adjustable arms, but they don't make the upper arm for an 86, plus their arms are all bushed with metal sphericals - which makes for a class rules problem on our car....

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TRACK TOW HOOK - MULTIPLE ITERATIONS

Most of you reading this already know that most track event orgs strongly advise or even require you to have a "trackside extraction hooks" on both ends of your car. This helps the track workers pull your car...

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Project update for May 16th, 2023: The start of 2023 only ratcheted up our business volume, so after nearly 4.5 months since my last update, today I am trying to catch up to the progress on our 2nd gen 86 chassis. I made a good dent and got this build thread caught up to early April 2023 with the many...