NinerBikes
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The warm weather is back again, here on the West Coast.
We are looking for ideas or suggestions on fabricating ways to distance the oil cooler up front a little bit farther away from the muffler pack of the exhaust system, for more cooling effect.
What avenues have people gone down to do this? I assume no one cuts and rewelds the exhaust system, so, to me, the logical solution is to cut out a portion of the cowling to move the oil radiator further forward into the inlet of the cowling, and lengthen the oil hoses a bit to compensate?
Thoughts on how'd you approach and handle it. I've no love for fiberglass layup, but if it has to be done, it has to be done. Proper temperature oil is the lifeblood of a very expensive Rotax engine, there's a lot of mountains around us with desert, sometimes you can't just decrease your climb rate, unless you want to look like a Cessna 150 flying in circles to gain elevation. That's not very "RV" esqe performance.
We are looking for ideas or suggestions on fabricating ways to distance the oil cooler up front a little bit farther away from the muffler pack of the exhaust system, for more cooling effect.
What avenues have people gone down to do this? I assume no one cuts and rewelds the exhaust system, so, to me, the logical solution is to cut out a portion of the cowling to move the oil radiator further forward into the inlet of the cowling, and lengthen the oil hoses a bit to compensate?
Thoughts on how'd you approach and handle it. I've no love for fiberglass layup, but if it has to be done, it has to be done. Proper temperature oil is the lifeblood of a very expensive Rotax engine, there's a lot of mountains around us with desert, sometimes you can't just decrease your climb rate, unless you want to look like a Cessna 150 flying in circles to gain elevation. That's not very "RV" esqe performance.
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