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Agree with TKC Posted by Ari [Email] (#2847) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Ari) on Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:52:55 In Reply to: Thoughts on external a/t fluid cooler..., Joe98, Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:10:49 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Look at your tranny - you should see two hoses running from the tranny to under the radiator. There is an oil cooler integrated into the radiator. Of course, you do mention that in your post.
Yes, you could always install yet another cooler, but I don't think it's worth the trouble. Larger (i.e. 'heavy duty') coolers are useful in cases where you're heavily loading the transmission for long periods of time - towing, running a fully loaded car up real mountains, that sort of thing. In those cases, there is a lot of power running through the transmission for long periods of time, and a cooler helps dispose of that heat. I live in Ct, and we have no real mountains. You'd need to go to Vermont/NH to see any real ones, and frankly, it's not until you see the Rockies that you get the really extended grades that tax transmissions.
Unless you're planning on towing, or regularly run a fully loaded car up extended grades (20 minutes to an hour of uphill driving), I don't see a tranny oil cooler doing you much good. For normal driving, the transmission doesn't produce that much heat. And for transient loads, like a quick acceleration run or other hard driving, the heat spike gets smoothed out by the existing cooler.
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