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Originally Posted by blazzin1

Well, I am NOT supercharged, and don't plan to be. But I do drag race occasionally, and I am also moving to Florida soon (pretty drastic climate change). But never been on an auto-cross or road course track, and don't really plan to ever do that either. From what I've been told, these factory oil coolers are pretty much a "joke", and are nothing more than glorified "coolant heaters" anyway!!! I would probably consider adding an aftermarket oil cooler if I knew it would actually add some sort of value to the performance of my car. But from everything I've been told, external oil coolers are really not needed on pretty much any "LS" engine......unless there are situations of sustained high RPM's.....like autocross or road course racing.

If you disagree or think I am off-base on this, please let me know!!! I certainly don't want to do something that could possibly cause irrepairable damage to my engine!!! My warranty is already toast.....so even if I have a possibly cross-threaded coolant fitting in the block....there's not much that the dealership is going to do to help me out without charging me a fortune!!!

So I am definitely not the most knowledgeable guy here. Others have much better mechanical skill and smarts. The OEM setup seems to average out the oil and coolant temps by passing them over each other. Maybe that is not necessary in typical driving, meaning maybe the rad can cool the engine just fine with only the coolant loop. In my situation I have a blower and go to the track and saw high engine temps. So I wanted even more cooling, and it works great. But sounds like a very different situation than yours.