Ford Mustang GT Oil Cooler 2015+

Working on a Cooler Coyote - Oil Cooler Kit R&D, Part 5 - 2018+ Update

Posted: May 07, 2020

Categories: Ford Mustang GT Oil Cooler 2015+

The Mustang is one of the longest living nameplates in the history of muscle cars; it's only natural that it continues to evolve with the times. In 2018, Ford launched the latest iteration of its flagship pony car, toting the newest generation of 5.0L Coyote V8 and a series of aesthetic updates. Despite the decades of updates and evolution, the S-550 still has to contend with any engine's nemesis - heat.

The latest Coyote received a bump in power by way of overhauling the fuel system, but when it comes to cooling the oil, it could still use some improvements. Luckily for us, Ford's fueling updates didn't mean a significant change to the overall design of the engine, which means that we didn't need to run a complete re-test of our oil cooler. We already determined how well our oil cooler

Working on a Cooler Coyote- Oil Cooler R&D, Part 4: Testing

Posted: August 01, 2016

Categories: Ford Mustang GT Oil Cooler 2015+

Tags: s550, race, oil, MustangGT, mustang, mishimotoengineering, mishimoto, GT, featured

In our last post we took a look at the fabrication of our all-new bar-and-plate oil cooler designed specifically for this project. Now that we have our coolers complete, it is on to testing. We will test our large bar-and-plate cooler, our small bar-and-plate cooler, and our traditional-style 19-row cooler. This will allow us to compare the effectiveness of our new design to the excellent heat exchangers we already offer.

Testing

We installed each version and gave them a chance to show us what they could do in not one, but two arenas of performance. Round 1 Fight!

Contenders:

19-Row Mishimoto Oil Cooler
Small cross-flow bar-and-plate cooler
Small dual-pass bar-and-plate cooler
Large cross-flow bar-and-plate cooler
Large dual-pass bar-and-plate cooler

We hooked up our 19-row cooler to our GT, as well as our all new bar-and-plate coolers, both large and small, and let them duke

Working on a Cooler Coyote - Oil Cooler R&D, Part 3: Cooler Fabrication

Posted: June 07, 2016

Categories: Ford Mustang GT Oil Cooler 2015+

Tags: teammishi, s550, oil, MustangGT, mustang, mishimotoengineering, mishimoto, GT, featured

In our last post, we took a look at the fabrication of our oil cooler bracket and the prototype heat exchanger. We've settled on the final bracket design, and now we are moving on to the heat exchanger.

Heat Exchanger Fabrication

The lead engineer on this project, Dan, plans to test several designs, including an all new heat exchanger design for this project. Exciting stuff! Before we test, we first need to fabricate our test subjects with the help of our expert welder, Mike. We will be creating a small cross-flow oil cooler, a large cross-flow oil cooler, a small dual-pass oil cooler, and a large dual-pass oil cooler.

We began with the cores of our new oil cooler designs. First up was welding the mounting points to the top edges of our cores. We have a pretty cool mounting design for our oil cooler, and we were pretty excited to see it come together.

Working on a Cooler Coyote - Cooler R&D, Part 2: Bracket Fabrication

Posted: April 06, 2016

Categories: Ford Mustang GT Oil Cooler 2015+

Tags: teammishi, s550, OilCooler, oil, MustangGT, mustang, mishimotoengineering, mishimoto, GT, ford, featured, Cooler

Prototype Bracket

Last time, we looked at how we began our bracket design and also the location of the oil cooler. Our design has certainly progressed since then. After we were certain of the dimensions of the bracket, we ditched the cardboard for some steel. Using our waterjet the engineers cut out our first functional prototype bracket. The waterjet is one of our newest tools and has been making development a breeze, as it allows us to make much more precise prototypes compared to fabricating them by hand.

Mustang oil cooler bracket

The bracket will be bent and the tabs in the center will fold together to better emulate the stock component. If you have noticed all of the small circles

Working on a cooler Coyote - Oil Cooler R&D, Part 1: Initial Prototype

Posted: December 14, 2015

Categories: Ford Mustang GT Oil Cooler 2015+

Tags: track, teammishi, OilCooler, oil, MustangGT, mustang, mishimotoengineering, mishimoto, GT, ford, featured, Cooler

Here at Mishimoto headquarters we are working to expand our arsenal of Mustang parts. We are making significant progress on our oil cooler design, and an interesting design it is. We are aware that many Mustang GT owners are adding forced induction to their already powerful V8s. We are taking this into account by offering an oil cooler that would still leave room for some of the larger intercoolers required for aftermarket turbo and supercharger kits. This strategy created quite a challenge for our engineers. As always, they rose to the occasion and created a brand new and unique cooler design specifically for our beloved GT. Drumroll please!

Rather than designing a traditional bracket for this all-new oil cooler, our engineers went with an interesting design. Modeling the bracket after one of the plastic upper air diverters, the new bracket will replace the diverter as the bracket for the cooler. Because a picture really is worth a thousand words, check out some photos of the first