Guys, thanks for the input. I know just enough to know that y'all know a lot
more than I do and I'm definitely hearing what you're telling me, but this
is where I am right now.  The van leaves from Las Vegas for San Francisco
Friday night.  If it isn't ready, I'll have to take a bus or hitchhike.
I've got a 96 pass Empi cooler with an integrated fan.  It's bolted under
the van.  I've totally dismantled the cooling tin, cleaned the grime out of
the fins, removed the stock cooler, added the adapter, cut holes for the
hoses and reassembled everything.  The only thing left is to route the hoses
to the cooler, wire the fan and thermostat that controls it, and fill the
van with oil.  I really can't tear back into it all now since I don't enough
time before Friday.

I want to learn and would love to hear your advice.  What kind of trouble am
I looking at by removing the old cooler and replacing it with a new higher
capacity one?  I don't want to risk my van, but I'm too far down this road
to turn around right now unless it's a definite dead end.  Any input on this
would really be appreciated.

Please cc me directly with any responses.

Thanks again,
Skip
1980 Westy

-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Wilder [mailto:wilden1-1@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:17 PM
To: Skip Emmert-Keaton; vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Oil cooler

Use a Mazda RX7 oil cooler.
It has plenty of capacity and a built in 147 degree thermostat.
You can usually find them on E bay because lots of racers use them.
I'd suggest that you get back in there and put the stock cooler back in
there ................. you're just asking for trouble by removing it.

Stan Wilder

----- Original Message -----
From: "Skip Emmert-Keaton" <skip@SKIPEMMERT.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:41 PM
Subject: Oil cooler

> I'm adding an oil cooler to my 1980 air-cooled Westy and want to add a
> thermostat upstream of the cooler.  I've removed the stock cooler and run
> lines from an adapter there.  Does anyone know whether the top or bottom
> hole is oil out?
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Skip