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11-14-2016, 08:57 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Liberty Twp, OH
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Oil cooler on engine mount?
Hopefully this doesn't create too many shattered dropped jaws. Someone suggested to me the idea of simply adel-clamping the oil cooler to the engine mount, in the space between the top and lower engine mount tubes immediately behind #4. It was a wild and crazy enough suggestion to make me stare at the engine mount long enough, hold the oil cooler up to it, and think "it /might/ work... Has this been done before?"
Anyone else ever done that? Stupid idea? Completely bonkers airflow-wise? etc?
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Scott Balmos - RV-9A N112SB
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11-14-2016, 09:57 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Victoria, Canada
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11-14-2016, 10:23 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: texas
Posts: 175
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Cooler mount
I have this setup because with the SJ cowling on my -4, it will not fit on the baffling. Oil temp stays around 115-120. I will post a picture later.
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11-14-2016, 12:30 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Greene, NY
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You might want to check the Show Planes website. Bryan is now selling an engine mount oil cooler setup. I would have purchased it myself but just finished shoehorning a -10 firewall cooler mount onto the -8.
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11-15-2016, 08:07 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ridgeland, SC
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Scott---I know of a F1 that has it mounted that way. NO issues.
Tom
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11-15-2016, 08:15 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Liberty Twp, OH
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Sounds like a plan then! One less thing to be concerned about, especially hanging off of the baffle. Seems to me an engine mount tube would be a *little* more sturdy than baffle.  Thanks all!
(WOO!!! Post #500 for me!!!)
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Scott Balmos - RV-9A N112SB
Cincinnati, OH, KHAO
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11-15-2016, 08:33 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: 08A
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Yes, but with a caveat. Coolers can be fragile, so I put it on a plate, then attach the plate to the mount tubes with adels.
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11-15-2016, 12:00 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: zeeland michigan
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any more pictures dan?
looks good but what size tube and any more pictures?
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