Fitted oil cooler and modded lower valance

[schmick325]

My E30 didn't come out with an oil cooler so I bought a genuine E30 oil cooler setup off www.ebay.com (USA site) as well as some US spec exhaust manifolds.

Today I fitted up the oil cooler and also had to cut away the lower part to get airflow. The car looks alot more aggressive now

its unfortunate that I wacked one of those car park concrete barriers that are at the end of the parking spaces 2 weeks ago. Need to straighten it up a bit, shouldnt be too hard though. Glad the oil cooler wasnt fitted at that time!

[Demlotcrew]

Cant notice it from that pic.

Did you clean the old cooler out?

[schmick325]

yep, blasted it with some compressed air and engine cleaner. Then hooked it up, ran the car for 5 mins and then did an oil change

Not leaking 1 drop

[e30_Turbo]

schmick325,

I'd be very interested to know if it does actually lower your oil temp as most 325i's over here had them fitted but in our climate it's not really worth having.

I wonder if it does actually do what it's supposed too and you've got the right weather to find out.

Hope it works for you.

Cheers,

Mark.

[E30Adam]

There's no way of telling unless you've actually got an oil temp guage in your car!!

[e30_Turbo]

Adam......as usual I didn't think of that...doh!!!

Yet again I bow down to your superior knowledge, I'm not worthy comes to mind!!

[schmick325]

I need it, car will have a 7-8 psi turbo on it within 2 months.