Looking for opinons on weather to use the stock gsxr 1000 oil cooler or putting in a larger one. Thanks
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Posts: 46 (03/29/08 05:17 AM) |
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Posts: 957 (03/29/08 07:53 AM) |
If it's a water cooled motor stock unit should be fine may be a bit on the small side but not by much. The most important thing with oil is to keep it in
the "comfort zone" 180-240 degs F to cold and it losses 3x it lubricity to hot and it starts to degrade. Most motors have a bi-metal strip in them
that opens only when the oil temp is over 180 so the oil only flows through the cooler when its hot enough. In a dwarf / mod lite it will be up to temp by the
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Take a look at the shape of the stock unit if you can make it fit and keep it in the air flow. Save your $$'s and use it. If not take a look at Jeg's.com at the B&M oil coolers there a twin tank type with finned plates. There cheap and work. Stay away from coolers with lots of 180 deg bends. they don't flow well and the bends re heat the fluid. 44dwarf
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Posts: 184 (03/30/08 09:08 AM) |
My take is the bigger the oil cooler, the better. I run a 2002. In 2003, Suz put a channel in the main bearing journal, to help oil flow to the rods. Without that channel, I had to double the size of my oil cooler TWICE to keep my rod bearings happy, even with synthetic oil. My guess is the oil to the rods is pretty hot, by the time it travels through the mains. If you keep your base oil temp low, it is still ok by the time it gets to the rods. The later cranks address this, somewhat, with the channel, but the routing is still the same. My current oil cooler is 6"x 12" in the fins. |
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