Hey guys I thought I'd share some pictures from my Derale Remove Mount Transmission Cooler install!
The Derale Cooler will be a supplementary unit to the 3rd Gen F-body Radiator/TransCooler that the car has today.
The cooler is a 25 row stacked plate cooler that has -6 AN fittings, an integrated fan shroud and 500CFM fan, thermostatic switch. The cooler is 13"x10"x6" so mounting in a discrete yet effective way became tricky.
The old B&M cooler is shown compared to the Derale, there isn't a comparison as they are priced completely different and separated by 10 years in technology development. It does show though how much better the Derale unit is than what I had before.
I elected to build some basic custom brackets to mount the fan exactly where the old B&M cooler was, UNDER the passenger headlight area, just at the end of the frame rail.
The Derale took up considerable more room than the older cooler and required it's own relay controlled power system. I'm big into clean, near factor wiring so that effort alone took about 4 hours but it came out really nice.
With all things Turbo Buick, when it comes to the Electrical System I don't play around with trying to get power to anything on a shared factor circuit. Bison taught me that 2 years ago! The Fan/Relay system runs on it's own power feed and body ground using a 30AMP fused battery source and 4 post relay. My car friends that have never owned a 26 year old GM car didn't understand why the electrical system was so over built, but when I showed them the factory harness etc they stopped asking questions.
Next up is the PTFE -6 lines & trans temp gauge install, hopefully next weekend I can get that started and completed just in time to install my newly built Husek transmission and 3021 stall converter.
LINK TO PICTURES
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/...073741870.100000993492856&type=1&l=312050abc3
The Derale Cooler will be a supplementary unit to the 3rd Gen F-body Radiator/TransCooler that the car has today.
The cooler is a 25 row stacked plate cooler that has -6 AN fittings, an integrated fan shroud and 500CFM fan, thermostatic switch. The cooler is 13"x10"x6" so mounting in a discrete yet effective way became tricky.
The old B&M cooler is shown compared to the Derale, there isn't a comparison as they are priced completely different and separated by 10 years in technology development. It does show though how much better the Derale unit is than what I had before.
I elected to build some basic custom brackets to mount the fan exactly where the old B&M cooler was, UNDER the passenger headlight area, just at the end of the frame rail.
The Derale took up considerable more room than the older cooler and required it's own relay controlled power system. I'm big into clean, near factor wiring so that effort alone took about 4 hours but it came out really nice.
With all things Turbo Buick, when it comes to the Electrical System I don't play around with trying to get power to anything on a shared factor circuit. Bison taught me that 2 years ago! The Fan/Relay system runs on it's own power feed and body ground using a 30AMP fused battery source and 4 post relay. My car friends that have never owned a 26 year old GM car didn't understand why the electrical system was so over built, but when I showed them the factory harness etc they stopped asking questions.
Next up is the PTFE -6 lines & trans temp gauge install, hopefully next weekend I can get that started and completed just in time to install my newly built Husek transmission and 3021 stall converter.
LINK TO PICTURES
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/...073741870.100000993492856&type=1&l=312050abc3
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