What Did You Do To Your G-Body Today? [2023]

[Supercharged111]

Stuck a power steering cooler underneath the core support.
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While it’s not the best place for it, it’s higher than the brace bars, so it should be relatively safe here. Debating on a fan or ductwork for forced cooling. Also need to grab an auxiliary fan for the transmission cooler.

Can you fit it behind the core support? As it is it's really only going to act as a heatsink.

 

[ck80]

Yeah that was the debate I had with my buddy helping me who pushed to put it on the alternator, the main Sniper is run to a junction that is then run direct to the battery with I/O gauge wire. Debated on putting a really small battery back up front just for the Holley stuff but then my buddy was saying they should then really be run in series so my plan is to just test with a jump pack to see if that changes anything

I wish you were closer. I have a 1/0 gauge wire that's probably about 15 or 20 feet long because of how they ran it that i removed and coiled up when I rewired the rotte carlo ss before I sold it. I'd have let you use it for testing, but, I'm sure with the weight it'd still cost almost as much as buying new @ $5/ft to ship it up there

 

[UC645]

Can you fit it behind the core support? As it is it's really only going to act as a heatsink.

I think anywhere I could move it to will just put it into warm air in the engine bay. I’ll be running headlight covers so there’s now going to be much air moving in the areas behind the headlights compared to a car without them, and the HID ballasts are in the way elsewhere.
I need to look but I might be able to mount it out on the driver’s side directly under the core support outside of the frame rails now that I’m thinking about it.

 

[bbcolds]

Got the lenco mocked up in my car. Switching from powerglide to lenco.

 

[64nailhead]

Yeah that was the debate I had with my buddy helping me who pushed to put it on the alternator, the main Sniper is run to a junction that is then run direct to the battery with I/O gauge wire. Debated on putting a really small battery back up front just for the Holley stuff but then my buddy was saying they should then really be run in series so my plan is to just test with a jump pack to see if that changes anything

The main Holley ground needs the battery - the battery acts as a shock absorber because it’s big. The power supply is nowhere near as important. Using a jump pack won’t prove anything because the entire car is not grounded to it.

Just saying.

A2 single 10 gauge wires from the Holley to the battery will identify your issue. You can always ‘pretty up’ the install later. But you definitely need to have the alternator out of that power supply.

 

[Supercharged111]

I think anywhere I could move it to will just put it into warm air in the engine bay. I’ll be running headlight covers so there’s now going to be much air moving in the areas behind the headlights compared to a car without them, and the HID ballasts are in the way elsewhere.
I need to look but I might be able to mount it out on the driver’s side directly under the core support outside of the frame rails now that I’m thinking about it.

Even so, warm airflow may be better than cool air exposure. I put the oil cooler for my Camaro behind the radiator as I don't want the oil cooler to steal cooling from the radiator, but the oil still runs a good bit cooler than it did without. I also put my PS cooler behind the radiator, same idea. A friend put his oil cooler behind the core support horizontally, I've even seen guys do it that way with a scoop.

 

[SS_Malibu]

I'm curious as to why a power steering cooler is needed on a street driven car? Does your power steering fluid get hot? Or is this car driven in autocross or something like that?

 

[UC645]

Even so, warm airflow may be better than cool air exposure. I put the oil cooler for my Camaro behind the radiator as I don't want the oil cooler to steal cooling from the radiator, but the oil still runs a good bit cooler than it did without. I also put my PS cooler behind the radiator, same idea. A friend put his oil cooler behind the core support horizontally, I've even seen guys do it that way with a scoop.

I’ll look at it again tonight, I’m using Intrepid fans with a generic dual pass radiator, and the bottom of the radiator is stepped forward to clear the steering box. I should have the space for a fan on the front of the cooler in that area.

I'm curious as to why a power steering cooler is needed on a street driven car? Does your power steering fluid get hot? Or is this car driven in autocross or something like that?

Switching to a hydroboost setup, and the car will see road trips once it’s done with the possibility of autocross or racing in the future. Need to feel out what I like first.

 

[Ernest]

When other transmissions fail by comparison(light speed), but with a LENCO transmission, you can achieve.... ludicrous speed!

 

[UC645]

I’ll look at it again tonight, I’m using Intrepid fans with a generic dual pass radiator, and the bottom of the radiator is stepped forward to clear the steering box. I should have the space for a fan on the front of the cooler in that area.

Switching to a hydroboost setup, and the car will see road trips once it’s done with the possibility of autocross or racing in the future. Need to feel out what I like first.

There’s space for a cooler there if I had one about 2 inches smaller in height and 3 inches narrower, this one hits the fans no matter how I mount it.

If I never bought this dual pass radiator that wouldn’t be an issue. Guess I’m shopping for a couple extra fans over the weekend.