Rear Mounted Trans Cooler Ideas

[Rockett]

Alright, sooooo.... A customers (And now friend) road race car, a 2008 Infiniti G37 Coupe, is needing a tranny cooler. The trans cooler in the bigger aluminum radiator isn't doing as good a job as it should, and with a fresh built trans with all the goods, it needs to be protected as best we can. Normally I would just shove one up front, but there is a large oil cooler and p/s cooler up there, normal doesn't cut it. And we are starting to get the packaging right for intercoolers for the twins that will go on in the near future. So, because this car likes throwing curve balls at me (Lots of other instances with "almost a simple upgrade", this cooler is going to be rear mounted under the car behind the diff. I will attach pics in a little bit. Does anyone here run this configuration? Not sure if I'm just not getting keywords right or there is not a lot of discussion about it. The cooler being used is a B&M super cooler with a therm. activated fan. Rows and size escape me but I will post that as well when I dig it out. If anyone has a pic of a similar setup, post it up, I'd love to see how you have it mounted and how it works for you. Thanks!!!

[chevymike]

We did this same setup on a '23 T bucket a buddy and I built. No way to package it up front so we put it underneath and it worked great. Rarely did we hear the fan come on but it did when it needed to.

[Rockett]

That gives me some confidence! I was figuring it should run cool between the longer lines and the air flow it should have. I'm going to try and mount it at an angle, so debris can't just come up and hit the fans. That's about the only concern. I have a good space to put it. Do you have a pic of the cooler mounted up by chance?

[Rockett]

Here's the space I'm working with, between the mufflers at the rear of the car. You can see the marks where the edges will be.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lnh6fo2oq0z0g25/20160621_145508.jpg?dl=0

... Talk about a rough time getting a picture on here, still can't get others on here.. is there a trick? Max size maybe?

[Craig@Bowler]

Here's the space I'm working with, between the mufflers at the rear of the car. You can see the marks where the edges will be.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lnh6fo2oq0z0g25/20160621_145508.jpg?dl=0

... Talk about a rough time getting a picture on here, still can't get others on here.. is there a trick? Max size maybe?

If you're using one with a built on fan you'll probably be ok. I would still absolutely run a temp gauge of some sort if you don't already have one in place.

[Rockett]

It does have a fan built on. Thanks Craig! I'll try to get a couple pics posted up. Got her back on all 4 wheels last night. Temps seem about 170 after sitting in traffic for an hour without the fan on. It does not have an external gauge as of yet. There is a temp sensor built into the cooler though that the gauge will use.

[Craig@Bowler]

Looks like it's working out really well so far, and once your gauge is installed it will let you know if anything ever goes wrong. Let me know if there's anything we can help you out with.