Ralph Thomas Reed wrote:

What would happen if you added fins to the pan to draw off more heat.
If it has any air flow past it that would take off heat, right?

I suspect there is a precise balance between adding volume to the
pan and fins that would prove optimal with regard to how much weight
one was adding for a specific effective cooling of the oil.

Ralph

  Oil pan coolers have been discussed previously and ruled out as not
terribly efficient. The problem is that oil in the pan is relatively
stagnant. To get heat transfer you need flow.

Mike Wills

 
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