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^Nice. You need to put your drag radials on that trailer too :p.

^Nice couple of 'dragon's tail' weapons there-

hell ya man...............

Finally got the skirts, caps, and front bumper on.
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My "targa top" 3S :lo5l:

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Originally Posted by Jimvr4

My "targa top" 3S :lo5l:

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if only they came that way factory. ;)

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Originally Posted by Ninja Performance

How exactly would you go about putting an oil cooler on a manual transaxle?

First you would need a pump to circulate it. Then you would need to think about using thinner than gear oil oil in it as it would be tough to pump/circulate thick gear oil as apposed to ATF which is very thin.

-Chris

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I have seen three manual Getrag gearboxes with cooler additions. Two have been done by Jack in the springs. The first one he basically he took an AWD trans, did a FWD conversion and used the rear output gearset to drive pump gears similar to oil pump gears.

On the second one he did the same thing but incorporated the powersteering pump and res, and added an inline 19 row cooler.

The last one, another guy here in Colorado deleted the AC and cleaned out the plumbing system with brake cleaner. He braised on AN adapter fittings and added some flared solid tubing lines and modified a circ pump and bracket to circulate trans fluid from the old ac pully location.

He came up with this design when we raced his Jacks Transmission Team last fall. It was pretty ingenious and worked really really well.

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In order to make the trans reliable in a race where the car will be at WOT for hours at a time, I had to design and build an internal oil pump for the trans so oil could be moved to a cooler to keep temps down and to add more oil to more sensitive places. We couldn't run an electric pump as that would make the car worth more than the rules would allow, so we had to make our own internal unit. I took an old 3S oil pump and cut it up to fit the center diff cap so the pump would turn when the car was in motion. To keep pressure down, but oil flowing, I made the inlet of the pump the same diameter as the outlet. The pump worked flawlessly the first time around and did it's job all the way though the entire race without an issue. Ran a fitting from the pump to the case to go out to the oil cooler. The return came in right at the 3-4 gear assembly to splash more oil in that sensitive area known to have issues. This was an AWD trans I converted to use in a FWD car.

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A manual transmission cooler? LOL I think it's a great idea. I don't run my car at extremely high speeds anymore, but if I did, I'd want one.