First: I agree that it is better to keep the original cooler and add an
external.

That being said, my family and I raced VW powered vehicles for 30 years, we
always used external coolers and removed the original with no problems.
When I was younger, and dumber, I ran external coolers on all my VW's, once
again with the stock cooler removed, no problems there either, at least not
with the engine (I had problems keeping all 4 wheels on the ground).

I'm not trying to defend to practice of using an external cooler in place of
the stock, I just think some people are overdoing it a bit with their
predictions of impending doom.

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Tim Schneider
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:50 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Oil Cooler

** Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET> writes: **

 >>If an accessory cooler is installed and the OEM cooler completely
eliminated
 >>I'd just guess that there needs to be provisions to raise the bypass
 >>pressure in the oil filter mount.
 >>So until I see viable scientific procedures that tell me that I can
 >>eliminate the OEM oil cooler, OEM oil pressure bypass I'm going to stick
 >>with the VW configuration.

the above is true.. learned the hard way in college on this one
although the engine had other issues that led to its demise, this was
probably one of the contributing factors

1835cc with dual webers Type I engine, it really made the bug
go! (for awhile at least)

  -tim

90 syncro westy
mesa, az