Well, it looks like I can forget about adding any oil cooler, except maybe if I hook up one of the lines to this plug, if it isn’t covering any sort of relief valve:
That would leave one of the plate’s ports free for the second line and the other free for a threaded adapter suitable for a pressure guage or even for a T or Y fitting accomodating both the guage’s sender and a temperature sender.
Other than that, because both mount and pipe are in the way, I will only be able to mount this plate facing either left or right. In which case, mounting it left will keep the newly added devices away from Catalyst heat
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wow thats a really crappy fitment.
I belive that plug goes straight down to the oil pump. It maybe the factory oil return for turbo blocks and plugged for N/A.
If you have a look in an ed or ef engine manual you may be able to get a pic of the inside of the oil pump so you can see if I am correct.
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The pdf I’ve got is visually vague. Nevertheless, that plug plugs a gallery which is connected to the oil filter’s inlet. If I were to tap it for a coolant line, oil woul no longer get to the filter. I’m tempted, in any case, to unscrew that plug and then see what happens.
I didn’t think to replace that plug with some sort of equally-threaded bronze plug of which I could drill and tap it for accomodating a guage’s sender[quote=“evilhighway, post:20, topic:6764, full:true”]…It was just a cheap chinese one from ebay or ali express…[/quote]Mine is probably also one of those. I just don’t know it yet. The threads in that plate are cut pretty crude. Nothing I’ve ever seen done in any Japanese or any other quality castings
