I replied to this question, this morning. Let me further qualify what I posted with some experience.
My first KR started with an 1835 Gilbert Duty conversion. It had the oil cooler on top, in the exact same location where all the GPASC VW engines have theirs. I later converted that same engine to a 1915. I flew that plane and those engines for a total of 185 hours. The plane was then purchased and continued to fly until it was damaged. This KR has 1 hour on it and is a GPASC 2180 VW. Both engines have a remote oil filter. I NEVER saw oil temperatures that were even close to being out of range on any of those 3 installations, NEVER. Do your baffling correctly. You do not need any special exhaust ducting for the oil cooler when mounted in this manner. Come to the gathering this year and look at all the VW engines that are there and I bet that you will find that most, if not all, of them have the oil cooler mounted in the same place. See N64KR at http://KRBuilder.org - Then click on the pics See you at the 2007 - KR Gathering There is a time for building and a time for FLYING and the time for Flying has begun. Daniel R. Heath - Lexington, SC -------Original Message------- A lot of the later model Mooney's.....
