Does anybody know who makes and oil cooler for the E39 M5?
Thanks
Rallistas
Check with D/A. They can do it for you.
Dinan talked about doing one, but decided it would be too expensive to do it right, although I think they have one for their S3 supercharged car.
Regards,
Jerry
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dinan will sell you the oil cooler parts they use on their s3, but it's pretty involved, and cost was going to be about $4k installed a couple years back when i looked into it. Dinans kit also removed the factory water oil heat exchanger, which takes a heat soak source out from under the plenum, so you can acutally have a little more power, due to less heat. They new cooler has a thermostat, and a modified belley pan with an air inlet screen. The positioning of the cooler is such that it adds some downforce on the front end at speed as well.
Discovery felt a kit could be put together for around a grand if there was enough interest to do ten or so. This would be an add on kit, in addition to the factory heat exchanger.
I had a thread a year or so back in the group buy section, wasnt enough interest to make it happen. There were some links to some factory parts, off the 540 protection model, iirc, that had a different oil filter housing that had lines to feed an oil cooler.
If you run tws, your oil temps will generally run about 10 -15F cooler if you switch to bmw longlife 5w30, which was dinan's suggestion to me at the time.
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91 M5 Alpine White II, Silver Gray 3/90 production
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