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Paranoid About Cooling

B Bgeo91316
There are lots of posts about oil cooling and remote oil coolers, etc.
After reading quite a bit about the challenges of cooling built Type I motors I decided I wanted a few extra lubrication and oil cooling features on my 0 mile SCAT 1915.

It has a 1.5 quart deep sump, a spin on oil filter and the engine is full flowed, it also has a Type 3 oil cooler in the fan shroud. Tom McBurnie was good enought to modify the dog house to make it accomodate the larger cooler.

The system holds a little under seven quarts of lubricant. I am running synthetic now, but as the posts throughout the site indicate it tends to find it's way out of even the finest openings so I'm going to go to real oil soon, to complete the run in.
1957 Thunder Ranch(Speedster)
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B Bgeo91316
There are lots of posts about oil cooling and remote oil coolers, etc.
After reading quite a bit about the challenges of cooling built Type I motors I decided I wanted a few extra lubrication and oil cooling features on my 0 mile SCAT 1915.

It has a 1.5 quart deep sump, a spin on oil filter and the engine is full flowed, it also has a Type 3 oil cooler in the fan shroud. Tom McBurnie was good enought to modify the dog house to make it accomodate the larger cooler.

The system holds a little under seven quarts of lubricant. I am running synthetic now, but as the posts throughout the site indicate it tends to find it's way out of even the finest openings so I'm going to go to real oil soon, to complete the run in.

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FM Former Member
Bill, I guess you're all set then; I think you've done all there is to be done to make your engine run cooler. Your engine looks really nice; I have one suggestion that'll also help your cooling. Swap the aluminum rocker arm covers and put in the regular black stock VW's. I've read they do a lot better job in dissipating heat than the aluminum ones.
FM Former Member
Greetings; All the VW engines Ive owned leaked in some way or the other, after accepting that as a fact of life, I switched to mobil 1 synthetic and Im pleased with the estimated -10 degs of cooler performance plus the other advantages of it. This oil business is a very debated and covered subject and everyone has a different opinions, but the avantages might be worth the trouble, after all, you can't get something 4 nothing... my 1
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