DeTomaso Mailing List: June 2001, Message #47

To the List,

As another way to utilize the oil pan for oil cooling, does it sound
reasonable to install a heat exchanger of some type in the pan? The
Fluidyne oil to water cooler appears to be quite compact and if the area
devoted to oil was removed it seems the portion remaining for water
would not be that large.

I'm not suggesting the disassembly of a Fluidyne oil cooler but instead
constructing a heat exchanger in an enlarged oil pan. The Pantera
coolant pipes are located so their connection to the pan's exchanger
would be easy.

If there is a concern with a failure of the exchanger, how does Fluidyne
cope with this possibility? If anyone thinks this is worth pursuing, I
have a spare engine with a pan I could try modifying.

	Fred T.