At Kames sprint yesterday a hose came adrift from the oil cooler. Hopefully the engine is OK as i don't recall the oil warning light coming on. Oil everywhere!

At a quick look last night it seems the hose was held on by a jubilee clip which is still there, loose on the pipe from the engine, while the hose is free.

This seems an odd way to secure such a important bit of kit or is this standard.

Has anyone a better suggestion for fixing the existing hose back on or replacing it with a better method?

Ta

John

The oil cooler pipe ends that bolt to the crankcase are steel so I simply soldered a threaded union on each end and use a braided hose that fitted that union to join the two. Works perfectly and a repair you know you can trust not to come off. Nothing worse than worrying about loosing an oil pipe all the time. Mine is a gsxr 1000 engine but sure they are the same

replace it with either proper oil hose and goodridge fittings expensive btw ... or go to your local hydraulic place and get the to make you up some hoseing with swaged fittings..
what oil cooler are ya using??
and what fitting have you got at the engine end ?

I had an oil cooler pipe push off, the oil up the side of the cat and underneath was phenomenal.
Planning on swaged hoses on my cooler next.

Snapper (Paul) picked up my car from Paul goodham yesterday. Cheers for the recommendation. He has done a lovely job.

i went to Think Automotive (Mocal) as they sell hose and fittings that you just dip the hose in boiling water and then push it on and its rated to 200 psi. I did still put clips on as i was paranoid but nothing has shifted yet and rotaries run quite high oil pressure. It was an easy way to buy fittings (which were quite cheap in steel) and make the hoses at home to suit.

Thanks, I'm going to re clip it up to test engine and for the next sprint if alls OK. I can then ask the others for opinions on the set up.

There's some views that for speed events an oil cooler is not needed up here in sunny Scotland. The cars not road legal.

Any views on that?

John

Very few sprinters bother with an oil cooler on a 'busa. Getting the oil temp high enough is usually the problem.

If you get some blanking plates. Dont forget that you need to remove the restrictor behind the oil filter. It looks like a big grub screw with a hex head and needs to be removed completely or you will get oil starvation and engine damage.

Thanks for all the help. I've seen blanking plates for sale and they mention removing the grub screw.

Why go to the trouble of removing stuff and blanking off things, after all you may have the need of an oil cooler if you use the car for something other than a hillclimb. Leave it and cover it with something for hillclimbs and remove the cover when doing other things. Simples!!

Cheers, Nick

Duh, plastic bag coming up!!