I've found this but I don't feel it fully explain an install.

 

http://www.mindserv.co.uk/atf_cooler.htm

 

Anyone got any other tips and where is the best place to fit, on the radiator or under the nose panel?

I have a UK TT.

Why you putting an oil cooler on a UK?

They have them as standard.

I haven't found it. The auto gearbox is cooled through the radiator isn't it?

As SRRAE they are standard on UK models, you'll find it infront of you rad below the air box/filter, and not in the rad as on a JAP import.

I'm confused now, I never saw a cooler when I fitted the Apexi under the nose panel and secondly I have the transmission oil pipes leading into the bottom of the radiator?

It is definatly a UK car though.

Mine too- You do have a big engine oil cooler then a smaller one in front of that but I now understand the little one is not for the auto box but for the power steering/hicas system. For the auto transmission on a 92> UK there are 2 feeds to each side header on the water radiator. If you want to change to a oil air cooler you disconnect the pipes to the splitter pipes under the water rad and plumb these to your new oil air cooler. Best place to fit would be somewhere in front of the other coolers on suitable brackets.

oil coolers are std on both UK and jap car. both use the rad to cool autoboxes but the uk auto rad as 4 pipes going into it and only 2 on the jap.

 

basically the new oil cooler will come with a bracket to install it where the old one was and connect the pipes from old oil cooler to new. you can then attach the old oil cooler infront of it and then take the pipes connected to the rad for the autobox oil and connect to what was the old oil cooler.

 

Remember to flush old engine oil out of the cooler before you start pumping autobox oil thru it.

I will have a look when I get her back. I may fit it to the existing radiator but I will nose around.

Mine too- You do have a big engine oil cooler then a smaller one in front of that but I now understand the little one is not for the auto box but for the power steering/hicas system. For the auto transmission on a 92> UK there are 2 feeds to each side header on the water radiator. If you want to change to a oil air cooler you disconnect the pipes to the splitter pipes under the water rad and plumb these to your new oil air cooler. Best place to fit would be somewhere in front of the other coolers on suitable brackets.

oil coolers are std on both UK and jap car. both use the rad to cool autoboxes but the uk auto rad as 4 pipes going into it and only 2 on the jap.

 

basically the new oil cooler will come with a bracket to install it where the old one was and connect the pipes from old oil cooler to new. you can then attach the old oil cooler infront of it and then take the pipes connected to the rad for the autobox oil and connect to what was the old oil cooler.

 

Remember to flush old engine oil out of the cooler before you start pumping autobox oil thru it.

 

I only have two pipes at the bottom of my radiator! Then there are a further two either side of the radiator which don't go anywhere other than out and back in to the radiator.

I stand corrected :p

Sounds like a UK rad yampie, dont know if all 4 are used or just the 2. Basicall there should be 5 pipes in total going into the rad (Top Hose, Bottom Hose, Autobox Oil in, Autobox Oil Out, and that one by the rad cap). The Oil hoses just need to be connected to whatever you are gonna be using as you autobox cooler. I assume the UK Rad as 2 internal autobox cooler sections which is why you have a hose that goes out and back in again on the rad, I know the UK rad has a larger oil cooling capacity.

I guess I will have to wait until I get the car back then I can have another look. Hopefully I can figure out how to install it in series for extra cooling. At this point in time it only looks like I have enough piping to mount it on the radiator.

 

Wherever I mount it though, which way up should I feed the pipes, from the top or the bottom?

im sure when you but the oil cooler kit it come with some extra piping.

It came with about two feet of piping so I doubt without buying any extra it will reach under the nose panel.

sounds like plenty enough to reach under the rad to where the coolers are installed.

I'll have to wait to find out as the car is at the garage where they are trying to find the cause of a coolant leak.