I had saved the post by Gary from a while back. I did a search on the internet, at Summit Racing and at Jegs and came up empty. I liked the look of the one that Gary got off ebay and wanted to try something like that to decrease the oil warm-up time in winter and to cool the oil in summer. Maybe the latter would be more usefull to me as I live in Louisiana.
Gary, it is for a 2002 Land Rover Discovery, 4.0L V8. As you may know that is an all aluminum engine, save for cast cylinder liners, and I try to take the absolute best care possible on a day-to-day basis. I run Redline 5W40 and recently did my first UOA, but don't have the results back yet.
I abuse the little V8 by off-roading it pretty hard 5-6 times per year. In between I baby it. My normal drive to work takes only 11-12 minutes and it only sees longer trips on the weekends. Essentially the oil only reaches operating temps on the weekend so I thought the heat exchanger would help that. And I remembered that I off-roaded heavily in July and August last year and can only imagine what the oil temps were then. I know the Redline is "insurance" against oil related failures, just thought I'd add one more small piece of insurance.
Thanks.
