F6Fury approached us to manufacture a heat exchanger to replace his existing OEM heat exchanger and we had done exactly that. The reason why we have taken so long to develop a solution to the milkshake problem was because we were reluctant to release a kit to the market due to the high cost. We already have a universal kit which has the traditonal air/oil trans cooler and billet adapters to go into the OEM 'quick release' fittings for those who will cough at the price of this new kit. The OEM heat exchanger is flawed in design due to a few reasons. Firstly, the plate type design in it's nature, is a furnace brazed unit. This in itself can be a problem in getting the individual plates to 'fuse together' evenly in the manufacturing process and can lead to failures later on due to the constant expanding and contracting cycles which literally bends and flexs the joints to the point of cracking the bond. This is the reason why there are great variations in life expectancy of these units, because the manufacturing process isn't consistant. The reason why Ford and alot of the other OEM manufacturers use this design is simply due to COST. They are cheap and easy to manufacture, simple as that. The second reason why we believe they are failing is due to harmonic vibrations from the engine, because they are solidly mounted to the oil pan. The design of our heat exchanger is of tube and fin design, with thick wall extruded tubes carrying the coolant flow and turbulation fin in between to carry the oil flow. It is a proven design we have been using for many years in motorsport applications with great success. The core we are using was originally intended for engine oil cooling and features in some of our universal inline engine oil coolers. The reason why the cost is so high for this unit, is because of the complexity of the internals and welding penetration to get a good seal. Add to that the cost of manufacturing in-house, the CNC billet transmission adapters which are then anodised and coupled to speedflow Dash -8 fittings and hose. All things which are contributing to final cost. There are no Chinese parts in our kit and all proudly 100% Australian made. We have done some very brief testing on temperatures and we were very happy with results so far, but the F6Fury was keen to get his car back! So we will be relying on him to provide us with some more temp data when he tracks the car or pushes it a bit harder than what we did. For those concerned about the lines sitting too low, there was at least 20mm above the bottom of the oil pan (which in itself is higher then the side skirts/rails) If you're going to tear a line off, then you've already done damage to your transmission..
