Hello rvers
I have a question. I have always fought high oil temps on my 7A, 0-360 carbed, with magnetos. Oil cooler behind the cylinder. Installed a steward warner oil cooler. Made sure the cowl was sealed, fiberglassed the tunnel on the top front cowl. New vernatherm
With the van,s supplied cooler in cruise it would climb to 240 degrees so would back off power to cool it down. New oil cooler helped a lot but still would like to run at least 200 degrees in cruise. Now with new cooler its about 215-220. If I do very much slow flight it will go to 240 degrees.pretty fast
Looking at the inlets and outlets with the exhaust pipes in the outlet it seems to me that I need to cut the opening up more.
Has anybody done this and does it help.
Vern
I have a question. I have always fought high oil temps on my 7A, 0-360 carbed, with magnetos. Oil cooler behind the cylinder. Installed a steward warner oil cooler. Made sure the cowl was sealed, fiberglassed the tunnel on the top front cowl. New vernatherm
With the van,s supplied cooler in cruise it would climb to 240 degrees so would back off power to cool it down. New oil cooler helped a lot but still would like to run at least 200 degrees in cruise. Now with new cooler its about 215-220. If I do very much slow flight it will go to 240 degrees.pretty fast
Looking at the inlets and outlets with the exhaust pipes in the outlet it seems to me that I need to cut the opening up more.
Has anybody done this and does it help.
Vern