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Oil cooler kit
- Thread starter daiseng
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alpine_64
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Felix,
The early racing competition and HLM oil cooler kits are hens teeth.. and a big ticket item if found.
You are better off using the later SV style cooler base.. they are available .. you get the different OPRV and you can switch to the spin on oil filter rather than canister style.... ( I know it's not original for your SII...but convenient to get filters and not messy to change) also buy a new oil cooler from moss or summit etc... dotn use an original hedgehog one unless you can have it professionally cleaned out .. no telling what's inside it...
alpine_64
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The cooler isn't the issue for the early style setup...it's oil filter base with the cooler plumbing.. You are talking maybe a few hundred produced....
The series V cars had a cooler as standard and the cooler adaptor is seperate from the filter base , it mounts bellow it.. so they arf easy to find.
And no... The passages are different from early and late filter bases so you can't put a later cooler adaptor under an early filter base.
daiseng
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Got it. Did not know there were early and late adapters. Thank you for that. Another holy grail search for a early alpine owner.
I actually don’t mind the canisters. They look cool. Messy, but cool.
I was going to put the late adapter under the canister base, but now it seems I have decisions to make.
Does anyone have a picture of an early adapter?
I actually don’t mind the canisters. They look cool. Messy, but cool.
I was going to put the late adapter under the canister base, but now it seems I have decisions to make.
Does anyone have a picture of an early adapter?
alpine_64
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I think I have some photos of them... But maybe check the Harrington gallery... The HLM had them
alpine_64
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@daiseng
Felix... Here you go...
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Felix... Here you go...
SII Oil Cooler base and Oil Filter ?
For years I have been running a late style oil filter base ( throw away type of oil filter ). But now I am trying to make my 1962 SII Sebring Alpine more stock. So I installed an old style oil filter base ( renewable element type of oil filter ). Well the chambers in the bases don't match and I...
husky drvr
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Felix,
I'm not aware of your goals or resources so this is just an idea bouncing off the wall.
The later series V style cooler block has a pressure differential valve (#12 in the first illustration) that bypasses the oil cooler when the oil is cold.
Is it still capable of performing to the design specs with today's oils? Probably not.
The adapter for the early series you seek does not have that feature. It's just a to/from cooler adapter. With a bit of research, you could probably machine a block that "functionally" replicates the early series style block, and possibly use more easily available modern style fittings and hose.
Just a thought,
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Scotty
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I was curious how effective this oil cooler setup would be if you used modern components and installed it like the cooler itself pictured is or just bolting the cooler to that underside. I assume the brackets are to help keep the entire setup stable and not bend the 'shroud'. I ask because I have four bolts in my 'underhood shroud' placed where those brackets would go and assume that was something carried over into the later Alpines. Thoughts on any of this?
ForzaDesign
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Does anyone have a pic of the relief valve disassembled from the block?
husky drvr
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Jim,
In the illustration in the first post of this thread, are you asking about OPRV #5 or bypass valve#12?
ForzaDesign
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bypass valve.
husky drvr
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Jim,
The only person I recall posting about disassembly of the bypass valve for cleaning is "Scotty" on this forum.
IIRC, there was a post about him succeeding, but I don't recall many pictures being posted.
Maybe he took some pics of the poppet valve and could post them. This thread:
Oil Cooler Adapter cleaning - SV
I'm disassembling and cleaning the SV Oil Cooler Adapter for my 1725 motor. I took apart the side that contains a spring and notice there's another piece, both on the diagram and in the unit, a diamond-like shaped piece that's in there and doesn't want to come out. Does that also need to come...
If you're contemplating a repro project, that's a different thread.
Hope this helps,
alpine_64
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Just noticed this post... The captive nuts for the oil cooler brackets under the front valence wasn't a cary over to the late cars ..it was introduced for the late cars SV when an oil cooler became a standard component.
Pre series V you would find VERY few cars ever had the factory oil cooler kit as it was in the competition parts and not that many cars went down that path.
The only cars with the oil cooler standard before the SV was the HLM .