Aftermarket Radiator?

[SlowImport]

Is anyone running one of these? I find that my 03 puts off a good amount of heat. Do you guys think an aftermarket radiator would help this?

just a thought,
Josh

 

[fr03cobra]

yes it would . That will be my next big mod. The mod bug just keeps bitting.lol


http://www.lightningforceperformance.com/catalog/productDetails.php?productID=1192

 

[ShelbyGuy]

its still going to throw off a lot of heat regardless of what size radiator you have. with the factory cooling system setup, nearly half the coolant bypasses the radiator. note how the thermostat bypass hose is almost as large as the radiator hose.


a bigger radiator, while a good start to keeping the car cooler, wont by itself do anything to your engine temps except maybe help them come back down sooner once they rise.

 

[Mike K]

ShelbyGuy,
Is that what the Evans cooling mods fix, the bypass problem?

 

[ShelbyGuy]

well, its part of it. one part is the evans thermostat (for street cars - racecars dont need a thermostat) the other part is ditching the oil to water oil cooler and going with an external oil cooler. the oil does more work to cool the engine than the coolant does and with the factory setup it ends up heating the coolant instead of the coolant cooling the oil.

 

[04MystiCobra]

LFP here. Direct replacement. :thumbsup:

 

[blackvenom77]

well, its part of it. one part is the evans thermostat (for street cars - racecars dont need a thermostat) the other part is ditching the oil to water oil cooler and going with an external oil cooler. the oil does more work to cool the engine than the coolant does and with the factory setup it ends up heating the coolant instead of the coolant cooling the oil.

So an external oil cooler is the best cooling mod you can do?

 

[Shadowgray03]

So an external oil cooler is the best cooling mod you can do?

Its kind of an all or nothing deal. On the stock cobra, where the oil filter attaches to the block is also where the coolant inlet it so the coolant and oil are moving through the same peice and transfering heat to each other or as shelbyguy said the oil is heating tthe coolant at that spot.

Evans created a new coolant inlet flange that has a smaller bypass hose and gets rid of the oil filter fitting all together. What that means is you will not only need to run lines to an external oil cooler (or an in radiator cooler which I think evans has now released) as well as a remote mounted oil filter adapter, which is not a bad idea anyways. Im running the canton billit peice and it uses the larger motorcraft FL1A filters so the added filter capacity is a nice bonus.

 

[eebj01]

oil filter adapter

Do you know the part number of the adapter? There needs to be a plate to block off coolant flow. Where can I get one of those? Thanks, Ed

 

[Shadowgray03]

Do you know the part number of the adapter? There needs to be a plate to block off coolant flow. Where can I get one of those? Thanks, Ed

Im not sure I follow you Ed. You dont block off coolant flow you replace the stock oil filter adapter with one that seperates the coolant inlet from the oil passages.

Here is a thread I made some time ago with pics etc.

http://www.modularfords.com/forums/reference-forum/keeping-your-cool-evans-upgrades-28635.html

Call Evans, they will know exactly what you need.