Another 1.5hrs on the hobbs today flying over snow covered hills was pretty awesome. SO the new oil cooler scoop helped a lot. In High power cruise WITHOUT pants, I was seeing 234 degrees. This isn't awesome but it's MUCH Better. In fact, I was able to cruise up to 6500ft with no sign of hitting the oil redline. Temps stayed in the yellow so now I just need to lose about 20 more degrees to call it good enough for Texas. I most likely will go ahead and modify this intake to be as good as possible to I can justify a full power cross country trip. On another note, I'm still amazed how well my DD intakes are working. It makes me Think that it may be the LOWEST drag option to go ahead and plumb air off of the plenums and into the cooler. If I ran 2- 2" hoses to the cooler I'd have a LOT of high pressure are going through the cooler and it would also balance the temps between both cylinder rows. However, this is not NASA tested crap, it's assumption and my track record sucks till now. BUT, IF it worked, it would REALLY cut down on the drag caused by another large intake scoop and I have a LOT of temp room to work with on those CHT's right now. The other issue using ducting is "where" it will go. I've got such little space to work with. Who knows.
