Have you guys seen this yet?

[elhigh]

Originally Posted by freebeard

That's the joke. My radiator is full of oil.

Air cooled V-dub?

[Cobb]

I assume it was a red neck fix to a blown head gasket by filling the cooling system with engine oil.

If its an older vw, those are air cooled, no water there or radiator. I was never into those, but I was the firs gen water cooled ones.

[elhigh]

Originally Posted by Cobb

I assume it was a red neck fix to a blown head gasket by filling the cooling system with engine oil.

If its an older vw, those are air cooled, no water there or radiator. I was never into those, but I was the firs gen water cooled ones.

There's an oil cooler in an air-cooled VW, it meets my criteria for a radiator. The add-on ones you might install on an enhanced engine - or just to improve on the feeble original - look the part even more.

[freebeard]

elhigh -- Yup. The weekly driver has a stock 1600, except for a billet aluminum distributor full of Ford parts.

The engine I hold in reserve is a stroker 1776 with an aluminum case and big-valve heads, that was going to go into the van I sold. It has a Type IV cooler in the doghouse.

Others I have had had braided stainless hose run all over the engine compartment.

Cobb -- Water is corrosive and best kept away from machinery, while the lubricating film of oil is fundamental to things even working at all.

I'd like to see a VW or Porsche boxer that is dry-sumped and then carries the external oil tanks in large corrugated copper valve covers. The oil would return down the pushrod tubes. I think it would be quite effective.

[renault_megane_dci]

Sounds a neat idea.
Is there enough room in the valve covers area to do that ?

[freebeard]

Could be. The bigger problem would be that the solid valve lifters require regular periodic adjustment.

It showed up in a design for a front-engined Lakester race car, with no oil cooler for less internal air drag.