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Need some help.... my oil overheats on the track and I definitely need a cooler. Need to know some sizing information for it. Right now I'm looking at a 24 row cooler (5.75x11x1.5) and adapters with 1/2" NPT ports for -10 AN line. I know -10 line is huge, but the more oil I can blow through this thing, hopefully the better it works. Just trying to compare some sizing to see if I got it in the ball park. Oh yeah.... I'm probably going to use stainless lines just because I know they won't blow off.... but is anyone running one plumbed with reinforced rubber hoses? Suggestion of brand of rubber (stainless line is like $6 a foot. If I could reliably use something cheaper, it would be better.

 
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just a thought , but can our oil pump flow enough volume to support an -10 line and not starve the rest of the motor?

 
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I don't know. Thats why I'm asking what other people have setup. There leaves an open possibility to use -8 lines as well, but I should think that once you fill the whole system and it pressurizes it should be able to pump it just fine. The pump pumps from the pan through the engine, then it'll go out to the cooler and back in, through the filter plate, so as long as there's oil in all the lines, oil is incompressible by assumption and it should be able to pump it just fine. All its doing is adding capacity. I suppose the pressure could change though.... probably better to raise it then lower it. The big thing is the new filter.... its for a ford V8, so its gonna drop the pressure I'm sure. May be better to use smaller lines just to put pressure back in the system.

 
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Just got off the phone with racerpartswholesale who just recommends a sandwich adapter, not the remote filter mount. So sandwich adapter to the cooler, back to the filter and into the pan using nothing less than -10 lines. They say the pressure loss in the system is minimal.

 
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aeroquip is a rubber hose brand, hose techniques is a hose brand

 
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I would get Russell Proflex steel braided hose an AN fittings only.