I bet the headers would at the very least melt the plastic on the fan....I would put it on the bottom of the car to be safe
I don't understand how the air is supposed to get to the backside of the radiator. Is there a big hole in the fenderwell not shown in the picture? -rick
I had a small trans cooling radiator mounted horizontally under the floor with no fan. I put a 100k miles on the used 700R4 with no problem.
I had mine bolted to the inside of the frame rail and never had any issues. Amazing how those little buggars work so well
The heat of the road surface passing thru the transmission cooler is worse than just a fluid pressure or return line mounted in the same location, the challenge is to find a cooler location relatively close to the tranny pump so it is able to still circulate the fluid for proper lubrication of cooler fluid as it leaves the tranny before it returns. Jim
Temporarily mount a probe from your BBQ/smoker in that same spot and monitor the temps while driving for a week or two. Actual, real numbers will be better than our best guesses. A trans fluid temp gauge, noting the before and after numbers, will also be telling.
While I agree that measured data is important, I've checked timing, oil levels, changed plugs and other sundry things that close to headers. My best guess is that a couple inches directly behind exhaust headers is going to be HOT. I'll also guess that having the air intake that close to them is going to be HOT, without even considering air exit path of almost directly against the FIREWALL. But that is just 'opinion'.
As mentioned, that style of cooler needs air flow through it to work correctly. If no room near radiator you would be better off with a finned non-fan inline cooler under the car.
I would think to close Especially stetting still , Gauge or Probe will tell, You can use Ceramic tile heat deflector. I run that style on 32 under floor pan With duck scoop , train temp 170 ish , Fan kicks On if sitting longer then 20 mints , 185 Winter I need cap off opening of scoop. All my lines are PTFE .
Is anyone going to mention the fact that the fan will be blowing really hot air through the cooler??? Not ideal....
Air flow through and out of e cooler are as important as air into it. As pictured there is no path for the air to go through because it can't get out of the cooler, the firewall it there, so that location fails for those points alone. Then you can add to the fact that the air in is coming directly off the header, if the air flow could actually pass through and out of the cooler, you may actually be increasing the heat of the fluid. That makes it a triple no.
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