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Originally Posted by Orange Crush 1LE

I'm a design engineer myself, sometimes you get boxed into a corner and have to do the best you can with what you've got to work with. They put form before function. Tadge hinted at the constraints. Perhaps there isn't a high-pressure opening in the front of the C7 available for a good oil cooling solution. I was suggesting to my friend to consider putting dual oil coolers where the brake cooling openings are. Two custom shrouded air to oil coolers in those places may do the trick, or may not as there's not a lot of room. The air could pass through the oil coolers and then also cool those big CCBs.

I just called LG Motorsports, they are working on a solution but it's not out yet. Lingenfelter is supposedly working on one too, but nothing on their website yet.

Sorry for the hijack.

No hijack there its good discussion. I believe its constraints as well, probably more than just a few constraints to be honest. With the amount of heat management that needs to be dealt with, clean air from the front is at premium. Efficiency also becomes a problem when you start stacking a radiator, AC condenser, trans cooler, oil cooler(s), supercharger core, all into that air path. There’s a fine line and a point of diminishing return, if they even get a return and I’m sure they know that. Perhaps that’s why it is the way it is. But all of that except the AC can be put into a single heat exchange system where a properly sized radiator manages all of the heat. They’re starting to do this, seen in the Z28/ZL1 diff/trans system and the miniature oil to water system. They just need to expand on it and create a capable system. The nice thing about a heat exchanger is it doesn’t need airflow and can be mounted virtually anywhere there is enough space.