Viewer requested an overview of how the oil coolers work on these cars so here we go! The end all to how a factory oil cooler system works, and what you can do to improve it!
Thanks for doing this. This clears up the questions I had. I believe on the 81-83 cars, they came with a slightly shorter radiator (the bottom 2 rows were removed) and the oil cooler tucked right under it, but the later cars (84/85) used the taller full size radiator and it covers up the factory mounting holes. So most folks that do the conversion move the oil cooler a little forward and mount it in front of the rad. You just need slightly longer lines. Either way, there's plenty of room under there to fit it.
Of those 4 derelicts I scored one is a 1981 confirmed by decoding the VIN at NHTSA and it has a front mount cooler and radiator. Have a guy locally wanting to buy the cooler and came across this vid trying to figure out what to charge for it
Hey mate love the channel. Its help out with my resto alot. I noticed your rats nest videos are different to the original rats nest on my car. I have a australian delivered SA 1984 series 3 limited rx7. any chance u could assist in working out the vac lines layout on this one. Couple hoses have me stumped
Do non beehive engines use a thermostat for the oil cooler? So I want to do this to my 85 12a. Do we need to find an aftermarket thermostat to control oil flow?
Hey brother great work!! I own a 1980 that Im using all the original 12ATurbo 1984 lower intake,turbo and manifold, orange hat with a Boost prep Nikki. I need help with the Ignition(Dizzy). I also have the 12AT dizzy but will like to delete my 1980 igniter box to use the two igniter on the 1984 Turbo Dizzy.
You ever tried to fix a floppy front bumper cover? Mines held together with tape and I wanna fix it but can only think of riveting it back together with slats of metal to bridge the sides.
Would you mind showing how to throttle assembly on a Nikki goes on? Like the parts stretched to the primaries, I’m in the middle of a rebuild and I misread the instructions and am now stuch
Hey can anyone tell me on the 83-85 beehives is there 2 o rings to replace or 4? I've gotten both answers. Took mine off yesterday and there was only 2. Went to order some from mazdatrix and they say you need 4? Can anyone tell me lol?
Did you ever figure it out? I believe there’s 2 more under the oil cooler pedestal that mounts the beehive to the block. But I’m not dead sure, I’ve been reading this same debate on the forum over and over (I’m about to do the o ring replacement)
@@RADPotential just got done today emptying the precat out, took the main cat to the shop and drilled speed holes thru the baffle inside on either end, turns out it was two chambers filled with billions of little beads that crush into white powder. Painted them up sealed and threw them back in, just finished up, worked great
