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Oil Coolers and the Engine goes back in - Bad Wolf Mini
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00:00:00.000 hey everybody call here with classic 00:00:01.30900:00:01.319 mini DIY on today's episode I'm gonna 00:00:03.32000:00:03.330 put the engine back in the car I'm gonna 00:00:04.84900:00:04.859 give you guys a little time lapse on 00:00:05.96000:00:05.970 that and then we're gonna talk about oil 00:00:07.36900:00:07.379 coolers so stay tuned 00:00:11.63000:00:11.640 [Music] 00:00:22.42000:00:22.430 all right so on this episode of classic 00:00:25.31000:00:25.320 mini DIY it's mainly focused on oil 00:00:27.80000:00:27.810 coolers what are they for how big should 00:00:30.68000:00:30.690 the oil cooler I get be what are the 00:00:32.39000:00:32.400 pros what are the cons what should I do 00:00:34.67000:00:34.680 should I get an oil cooler all that is 00:00:36.65000:00:36.660 gonna be answered in this episode also 00:00:38.96000:00:38.970 I'm gonna give you guys a little 00:00:40.25000:00:40.260 time-lapse of me putting the engine back 00:00:42.38000:00:42.390 into the car however I'm not really 00:00:43.85000:00:43.860 gonna dive into actually how to put it 00:00:46.16000:00:46.170 back into the engine bay because well 00:00:48.14000:00:48.150 I've done it a couple times on this 00:00:49.49000:00:49.500 channel and I think for right now it's 00:00:51.11000:00:51.120 not really worth spending a lot of time 00:00:52.49000:00:52.500 on now before we get started two things 00:00:54.83000:00:54.840 one I've got some stickers from some 00:00:57.38000:00:57.390 people I just want to mention them real 00:00:58.94000:00:58.950 quick I got a sticker from minis in the 00:01:01.40000:01:01.410 gone which is from Australia so that 00:01:03.74000:01:03.750 sticker made a long journey to Charlotte 00:01:06.89000:01:06.900 North Carolina so thank you so much guys 00:01:09.17000:01:09.180 for sending me that and then I have 00:01:11.06000:01:11.070 another sticker from Paul Jeffrey's his 00:01:13.76000:01:13.770 engine and gearbox building business 00:01:15.62000:01:15.630 right here jpe 00:01:16.94000:01:16.950 if you guys are in the UK and you're 00:01:18.68000:01:18.690 looking for a really top-notch job on an 00:01:21.38000:01:21.390 engine or a gearbox or anything related 00:01:23.30000:01:23.310 to these classic minis hit up Paul I put 00:01:25.49000:01:25.500 the links to both minis in the gong and 00:01:27.38000:01:27.390 Paul in the description of this video so 00:01:29.80900:01:29.819 you can check those out the other thing 00:01:31.79000:01:31.800 is super cool it is another giveaway so 00:01:35.21000:01:35.220 one of my viewers a little while back 00:01:36.91900:01:36.929 purchased one of the bespoke valve 00:01:38.96000:01:38.970 covers that I was selling on my merch 00:01:40.27900:01:40.289 store I don't have any more of those in 00:01:42.23000:01:42.240 stock at the moment but he decided that 00:01:44.57000:01:44.580 it would be a little too long before it 00:01:46.66900:01:46.679 would go onto his car and he wants to 00:01:48.62000:01:48.630 give away that valve cover to one lucky 00:01:51.16900:01:51.179 person who watches the channel so if 00:01:53.21000:01:53.220 you're interested in winning this valve 00:01:54.85900:01:54.869 cover which probably popped up on the 00:01:56.57000:01:56.580 corner of the screen here head over to 00:01:58.58000:01:58.590 the link in the description that is 00:02:00.23000:02:00.240 gonna allow you to enter in to win it 00:02:01.79000:02:01.800 there's a few daily entries and you know 00:02:04.04000:02:04.050 if you guys have participated in a 00:02:05.83900:02:05.849 giveaway in the past you guys know the 00:02:07.94000:02:07.950 drill daily entries there's some 00:02:09.88900:02:09.899 one-time entries for subscribing you 00:02:11.80900:02:11.819 know things like that and yeah good luck 00:02:13.67000:02:13.680 to everybody that giveaway is gonna last 00:02:15.50000:02:15.510 until the end of February just a little 00:02:17.72000:02:17.730 bit before the end of February so at the 00:02:19.76000:02:19.770 time of filming this intro I've actually 00:02:21.77000:02:21.780 already installed the oil cooler on my 00:02:24.23000:02:24.240 car so I kind of want to talk about the 00:02:26.33000:02:26.340 differences here but before we go into 00:02:27.68000:02:27.690 actually installing it how that whole 00:02:29.72000:02:29.730 process works now there are a few 00:02:31.78900:02:31.799 different kinds of oil coolers and when 00:02:33.83000:02:33.840 I 00:02:33.95000:02:33.960 two different kinds I'm really talking 00:02:35.36000:02:35.370 about different size oil coolers and the 00:02:37.97000:02:37.980 way that the fittings work so let's 00:02:39.95000:02:39.960 tackle the size of the oil coolers first 00:02:42.92000:02:42.930 so there are a variety of different size 00:02:45.38000:02:45.390 oil coolers available for the classic 00:02:47.48000:02:47.490 mini the general idea is that the more 00:02:49.58000:02:49.590 rows that you have on an oil cooler the 00:02:52.61000:02:52.620 more cool the oil is going to get when 00:02:54.95000:02:54.960 air passes over those so just think of 00:02:57.20000:02:57.210 it like a giant radiator except for your 00:02:59.54000:02:59.550 oil and so with that you might think 00:03:01.28000:03:01.290 well cooler is better right you want 00:03:04.31000:03:04.320 your oil to be as cool as it possibly 00:03:06.02000:03:06.030 can be that will make your engine run 00:03:08.57000:03:08.580 the best well that's not exactly the 00:03:10.43000:03:10.440 case especially with these old minis you 00:03:12.47000:03:12.480 don't want your oil to be over cooled 00:03:14.48000:03:14.490 because what happens is is the colder 00:03:16.88000:03:16.890 your oil is the thicker it gets and the 00:03:19.55000:03:19.560 harder it is for your oil pump to 00:03:21.80000:03:21.810 actually push that oil through your 00:03:23.33000:03:23.340 system so you're trying to find a 00:03:25.07000:03:25.080 perfect balance with an oil cooler now 00:03:27.41000:03:27.420 the size that most people run on their 00:03:29.39000:03:29.400 classic minis is a 13 row oil cooler 00:03:32.60000:03:32.610 this is going to be like the kind of 00:03:34.58000:03:34.590 sweet spot for someone who just wants to 00:03:36.83000:03:36.840 pick up an oil cooler and bolt it right 00:03:38.93000:03:38.940 on or even someone who is getting this 00:03:41.54000:03:41.550 to cool their race engine on their race 00:03:43.79000:03:43.800 Mini Cooper now with that 13 row oil 00:03:46.19000:03:46.200 cooler you can see around a negative 10 00:03:49.25000:03:49.260 degrees Celsius temperature differential 00:03:52.01000:03:52.020 so what that means is you can see up to 00:03:54.02000:03:54.030 10 degrees of cooling potential on your 00:03:57.32000:03:57.330 Classic Mini and as the air is passing 00:03:59.42000:03:59.430 over that cooler and your oil is being 00:04:01.40000:04:01.410 pumped through the oil cooler through 00:04:03.44000:04:03.450 the filter through the whole system 00:04:05.15000:04:05.160 now I actually had a 13 row oil cooler 00:04:07.85000:04:07.860 on my Classic Mini and it serves me very 00:04:10.91000:04:10.920 well but one thing that I was not a huge 00:04:13.34000:04:13.350 fan of at least with that oil cooler was 00:04:15.56000:04:15.570 the actual lines that were running to 00:04:17.59900:04:17.609 that cooler they were really really 00:04:19.55000:04:19.560 rigid and what that ended up doing is 00:04:21.65000:04:21.660 making it a much harder thing to work 00:04:24.05000:04:24.060 and change your oil to work on the car 00:04:25.94000:04:25.950 it all just got very like tedious and 00:04:28.58000:04:28.590 frustrating so before I took my engine 00:04:31.40000:04:31.410 back out I actually took that oil cooler 00:04:33.50000:04:33.510 out and just got an immediate irk it so 00:04:36.23000:04:36.240 one a in line coming from the filter 00:04:39.11000:04:39.120 housing up to the engine block and 00:04:41.24000:04:41.250 that's a tidy little system I was really 00:04:43.25000:04:43.260 happy with it for the like three or four 00:04:45.20000:04:45.210 weeks that my engine was 00:04:46.47000:04:46.480 back in my car but what I did end up 00:04:48.30000:04:48.310 noticing is that after a long period of 00:04:50.67000:04:50.680 driving the oil became much more viscous 00:04:52.95000:04:52.960 and what that meant is that you know I 00:04:55.32000:04:55.330 lost a good amount of oil pressure and I 00:04:58.08000:04:58.090 wasn't really happy with where that oil 00:05:00.09000:05:00.100 pressure would kind of come down to so 00:05:01.92000:05:01.930 think of the oil it was getting really 00:05:03.51000:05:03.520 hot and thus it was not lubricating 00:05:05.97000:05:05.980 things as well as I wanted it to now it 00:05:08.55000:05:08.560 probably is not a big deal but I'm super 00:05:10.98000:05:10.990 detail-oriented with these things and I 00:05:12.99000:05:13.000 want all of the stuff to be really tight 00:05:14.91000:05:14.920 and tidy on my car for as long as it 00:05:16.92000:05:16.930 possibly can so I tossed around a few 00:05:18.96000:05:18.970 ideas do I get another 13 Rowe oil 00:05:21.27000:05:21.280 cooler or doom I try something a little 00:05:23.28000:05:23.290 bit smaller maybe something that's not 00:05:25.20000:05:25.210 as big in front of the car and so what I 00:05:27.57000:05:27.580 ended up with was was an 8 am fitting 00:05:30.63000:05:30.640 oil cooler and it is only 10 rows so 00:05:33.96000:05:33.970 it's a smaller oil cooler so it takes up 00:05:35.85000:05:35.860 less room and those a and fittings are 00:05:37.89000:05:37.900 much easier to work with so I was able 00:05:39.84000:05:39.850 to use the 8a in fittings that came from 00:05:42.36000:05:42.370 MIT filter kit get an additional 8a in 00:05:45.45000:05:45.460 line and then i was able to run that up 00:05:47.52000:05:47.530 to my engine block which i'm going to 00:05:49.41000:05:49.420 show you guys on the car here shortly a 00:05:51.60000:05:51.610 lot of people probably think right off 00:05:52.71000:05:52.720 the bat at Enron oil cooler well that's 00:05:54.78000:05:54.790 not gonna do anything I don't think 00:05:56.43000:05:56.440 that's necessarily the case I don't 00:05:58.53000:05:58.540 think that at enro oil cooler is gonna 00:06:00.57000:06:00.580 be perfect for like a race car where 00:06:03.03000:06:03.040 you'd want a lot of cooling potential 00:06:04.74000:06:04.750 but I think it's gonna be just right on 00:06:07.23000:06:07.240 a road car it's gonna give me a little 00:06:09.51000:06:09.520 bit of cooling potential so if we kind 00:06:11.07000:06:11.080 of map it out you have this 13 row oil 00:06:13.11000:06:13.120 cooler and that gives you up to 10 00:06:15.12000:06:15.130 degrees Celsius of cooling potential and 00:06:17.34000:06:17.350 then we moved down to a 10 row oil 00:06:19.98000:06:19.990 cooler you're losing just a small 00:06:21.57000:06:21.580 percentage of those rows so I'm thinking 00:06:23.73000:06:23.740 and it'll probably give me about 6 00:06:25.65000:06:25.660 degrees of cooling potential which is 00:06:27.75000:06:27.760 still actually quite a bit cooler than 00:06:29.43000:06:29.440 the engine running with no oil cooler at 00:06:31.53000:06:31.540 all so that's my kind of thought process 00:06:33.75000:06:33.760 I'm really hoping this works so one 00:06:36.42000:06:36.430 other thing that you'll find with oil 00:06:37.92000:06:37.930 coolers before I show you guys my setup 00:06:39.87000:06:39.880 is that you will see they will kind of 00:06:42.30000:06:42.310 range you'll be able to find things with 00:06:44.07000:06:44.080 10a in lines 8 a.m. lines or if I 00:06:48.21000:06:48.220 remember correctly half inch of bsp 00:06:50.88000:06:50.890 lines so keep an eye out if you decide 00:06:53.13000:06:53.140 to pick up an oil cooler I have a few 00:06:55.20000:06:55.210 recommendations for coolers down in the 00:06:57.18000:06:57.190 description so there should be one down 00:06:58.86000:06:58.870 there that 00:06:59.43000:06:59.440 your needs in the event that you are 00:07:00.66000:07:00.670 looking to do this to your car but 00:07:02.49000:07:02.500 you're definitely gonna want to match 00:07:03.93000:07:03.940 those things up so I know that was a lot 00:07:05.94000:07:05.950 of talking in a lot of detail around 00:07:07.65000:07:07.660 these oil coolers but let's head out to 00:07:09.30000:07:09.310 the car and I'm gonna show you guys how 00:07:10.83000:07:10.840 mine set up how you could install it in 00:07:13.26000:07:13.270 your car and then how to prepare it 00:07:15.15000:07:15.160 before you start your car for the first 00:07:16.95000:07:16.960 time with an oil cooler so let's head 00:07:19.08000:07:19.090 out there 00:07:22.39000:07:22.40000:07:46.86000:07:46.87000:07:52.19000:07:52.20000:08:19.43000:08:19.440 all right so what we're looking at here 00:08:21.33000:08:21.340 is well the tenro oil cooler that I was 00:08:23.99900:08:24.009 mentioning just a moment ago and you'll 00:08:25.95000:08:25.960 notice I have one a in line already 00:08:28.14000:08:28.150 connected on the left side here and then 00:08:29.99900:08:30.009 I have this side disconnected and now 00:08:31.71000:08:31.720 the reason I have that disconnected is 00:08:33.38900:08:33.399 because there's something you have to do 00:08:34.50000:08:34.510 when you install this oil cooler but 00:08:36.26900:08:36.279 before we get into that I just want to 00:08:38.37000:08:38.380 mention the way that this is installed 00:08:40.52900:08:40.539 now now I know this isn't probably the 00:08:42.44900:08:42.459 prettiest fanciest way you can install 00:08:44.04000:08:44.050 an oil cooler but what we did here is we 00:08:46.56000:08:46.570 just cut a small little lip on the 00:08:49.07900:08:49.089 bumper here on both sides and now keep 00:08:51.84000:08:51.850 in mind that the grill is gonna go in 00:08:53.69900:08:53.709 front of this so you can't actually see 00:08:55.17000:08:55.180 any of this from the front side of the 00:08:57.44900:08:57.459 car but what we did is we then took that 00:09:00.38900:09:00.399 small lip and bent it backwards now this 00:09:03.21000:09:03.220 was done prior to painting the car 00:09:05.28000:09:05.290 however it has seen some wear and tear 00:09:07.56000:09:07.570 over the years so don't judge me too 00:09:09.12000:09:09.130 hard here now the way that I have this 00:09:11.19000:09:11.200 connected is the left side here is 00:09:13.35000:09:13.360 running from this 8a inline up and 00:09:16.31900:09:16.329 through the 16 inch hose all the way up 00:09:19.35000:09:19.360 to the engine block right up here with 00:09:21.21000:09:21.220 now on the other side I'm going to run a 00:09:22.86000:09:22.870 small a smaller hose from here just to 00:09:26.01000:09:26.020 the actual oil filter head now on the 00:09:28.62000:09:28.630 other side here I'm just gonna run a 00:09:29.81900:09:29.829 smaller hose from here just to this 00:09:32.40000:09:32.410 filter filler neck right here the hose 00:09:34.68000:09:34.690 that came with the kit from meb for just 00:09:37.86000:09:37.870 the oil filter kit does kind of 00:09:40.65000:09:40.660 technically work but it has a little bit 00:09:42.54000:09:42.550 too much binding in it and in short it 00:09:44.94000:09:44.950 just makes me a little uncomfortable I 00:09:46.80000:09:46.810 just don't want this to be really bound 00:09:48.69000:09:48.700 up when it's connected here to here so I 00:09:52.01900:09:52.029 got a smaller line however ultimately 00:09:53.81900:09:53.829 there was a small mix-up and they 00:09:55.50000:09:55.510 accidentally put the wrong fitting on 00:09:57.48000:09:57.490 the other end of the hose here keep in 00:09:59.22000:09:59.230 mind that these hoses I actually got 00:10:00.93000:10:00.940 from a company called race flux it's 00:10:03.00000:10:03.010 super cool I'm really glad that I found 00:10:05.31000:10:05.320 their website it's a little bit more 00:10:06.63000:10:06.640 expensive than say putting these hoses 00:10:08.37000:10:08.380 together yourself however the benefit is 00:10:11.04000:10:11.050 is that now I know for sure this has 00:10:13.41000:10:13.420 been leak tested that this has been 00:10:14.85000:10:14.860 installed with good tools that I know 00:10:16.47000:10:16.480 work so this ultimately is gonna have 00:10:18.99000:10:19.000 two 90 degree fittings so one here like 00:10:22.26000:10:22.270 this and the hose is going to come back 00:10:25.19900:10:25.209 around and connect up right in the back 00:10:27.66000:10:27.670 there 00:10:27.96000:10:27.970 one short little jump from the filler 00:10:29.75900:10:29.769 neck over to the actual oil cooler now 00:10:32.36900:10:32.379 the reason I have this disconnected for 00:10:34.31900:10:34.329 right now is is because I'm priming in 00:10:36.68900:10:36.699 my oil filter so what that means is well 00:10:39.44900:10:39.459 just filling it up with oil so you grab 00:10:41.51900:10:41.529 the motor oil that you're gonna be 00:10:42.86900:10:42.879 running in your car and you're gonna 00:10:44.90900:10:44.919 need to fill it up here I've tried a 00:10:47.03900:10:47.049 funnel my funnel is not quite small 00:10:49.19900:10:49.209 enough to fit in this hole so I am just 00:10:51.02900:10:51.039 being really careful and I'm adding just 00:10:53.36900:10:53.379 a little bit of oil here 00:10:56.70000:10:56.710 and of course still making a mess the 00:10:59.37000:10:59.380 basic goal here is to get this full of 00:11:01.20000:11:01.210 oil now I've been doing this over the 00:11:03.15000:11:03.160 course of a few days now the reason I've 00:11:05.19000:11:05.200 been doing that is just to allow is to 00:11:08.10000:11:08.110 allow the oil to settle down into the 00:11:09.93000:11:09.940 cooler and then I can fill it up a 00:11:11.31000:11:11.320 little bit more but I'm sure if you did 00:11:13.19900:11:13.209 this off of the car and you had like a 00:11:14.97000:11:14.980 bigger funnel you could probably get 00:11:16.38000:11:16.390 some oil in there pretty quick I'm just 00:11:18.75000:11:18.760 you know not I'm just taking my time but 00:11:21.03000:11:21.040 aside from that there really isn't 00:11:22.26000:11:22.270 anything else you have to do in order to 00:11:24.24000:11:24.250 get this working now I'm not going to 00:11:26.34000:11:26.350 show you this connected up right now 00:11:27.66000:11:27.670 because I don't have the hose like I 00:11:28.94900:11:28.959 said but if you want to follow me on 00:11:30.36000:11:30.370 Instagram a classic mini DIY 59 you'll 00:11:33.99000:11:34.000 get some updates on there and you can 00:11:35.46000:11:35.470 actually see this once it's all buttoned 00:11:37.17000:11:37.180 up and finished putting getting put 00:11:38.61000:11:38.620 together okay so that is gonna wrap up 00:11:40.88900:11:40.899 this episode of classic mini DIY I hope 00:11:43.29000:11:43.300 that you found it educational for these 00:11:44.94000:11:44.950 oil coolers you know I've always wanted 00:11:46.80000:11:46.810 to kind of do something about the oil 00:11:48.57000:11:48.580 cooler on the classic mini and I figured 00:11:50.88000:11:50.890 now would be the best time since I've 00:11:52.44000:11:52.450 got you know the car still kind of 00:11:54.06000:11:54.070 disassembled and going back together if 00:11:56.10000:11:56.110 you have any questions or if you have 00:11:57.63000:11:57.640 any feedback about the kind of like idea 00:12:00.00000:12:00.010 I have around the temperature 00:12:01.62000:12:01.630 differential on this or you know what 00:12:03.24000:12:03.250 the best oil cooler for the mini is feel 00:12:05.28000:12:05.290 free to post that in the comment section 00:12:06.81000:12:06.820 below I'd love to hear from you guys 00:12:08.25000:12:08.260 also at the time of filming this this 00:12:10.59000:12:10.600 oil cooler that I bought from my car 00:12:12.09000:12:12.100 actually is no longer available on 00:12:13.98000:12:13.990 Amazon I'm not sure why they don't carry 00:12:15.66000:12:15.670 it anymore but well they don't have it 00:12:17.94000:12:17.950 anymore so I've put some links down in 00:12:19.76900:12:19.779 the description to some oil coolers that 00:12:21.96000:12:21.970 seven mini carries that I think are 00:12:23.37000:12:23.380 awesome they're like the 13 row and they 00:12:25.38000:12:25.390 have some with a in fittings with bsp 00:12:27.54000:12:27.550 fittings there's a kit from a median 00:12:29.57900:12:29.589 Janee hring which is also a 13 row the 00:12:32.04000:12:32.050 oil filter head kit if you don't want to 00:12:34.41000:12:34.420 do an oil cooler and then I've also put 00:12:36.72000:12:36.730 a link to the race flux website that I 00:12:38.85000:12:38.860 use to actually get these a in lines 00:12:40.82900:12:40.839 created they're awesome they didn't you 00:12:43.11000:12:43.120 know send me any of this stuff I'm not 00:12:44.49000:12:44.500 sponsoring this video for them but I 00:12:46.50000:12:46.510 really like their product they sent me 00:12:48.15000:12:48.160 some really well-made hoses and I'm 00:12:50.31000:12:50.320 excited to put those and test them out 00:12:52.01900:12:52.029 on my car now don't forget like I 00:12:53.76000:12:53.770 mentioned at the beginning of the video 00:12:54.87000:12:54.880 there is a giveaway going on for a 00:12:56.69900:12:56.709 bespoke valve cover that matches the one 00:12:58.76900:12:58.779 that I have on my car donated by one of 00:13:01.35000:13:01.360 the viewers if you are interested in 00:13:03.26900:13:03.279 winning one of those head over to the 00:13:04.62000:13:04.630 link in the description but I think the 00:13:06.44900:13:06.459 next video is hopefully gonna be a 00:13:08.69900:13:08.709 driving video one 00:13:10.07900:13:10.089 has the car all put back together I 00:13:11.87900:13:11.889 might do another kind of like vlog style 00:13:13.92000:13:13.930 or maybe a live session with you guys 00:13:15.72000:13:15.730 you know while I'm working on the car 00:13:17.28000:13:17.290 I'm not really sure about that yet but 00:13:19.01900:13:19.029 but if nothing else the next video will 00:13:21.48000:13:21.490 be the mini driving so very excited 00:13:23.97000:13:23.980 about that however until that episode 00:13:25.94900:13:25.959 drops enjoy those minis and motor on
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