IPR External Oil Cooler Kit for Ford 6.0 Powerstroke

I saw this and think its pretty cool. According to ipr it incorporates a full time coolant filter that filters 100% of the coolant. Any inputs from the peanut gallery?

 

I had pointed this kit out to someone looking at the bulletproof kit, I like the idea of a water cooled oil cooler better. If you do alot of city driving or idleling it would be alot better then the air cooler. If you are any good at fabbing you can make a remote kit using an air cooled unit pretty easy, by using a oil cooler cover from a van with the remote lines you cut one of the lines and put the cooler inline that way, and my cutting the cover where the water enters the cooler you can tap the block and put a nipple up through the cover an put a 90 degree fitting on it and run a heater hose to your EGR delete pipe. I haven't done this yet but I have the van cooler so I might get everything fabbed up and post some pics with what it would cost to do it this way.

 

I smell what you're stepping in, but my fab skills ain't that great. I pretty good at turning wrenches, but sometimes I'm better off buying the kit than making something.

 

I like the IPR kit, makes bettwer sense using coolant, plus if something happens you can go right to your dealer and replace the cooler if need be instead of having to order a cooler and waiting for it to come in or you could also put one of these in line if you really want to keep temps down,
AFCO Deck Mount Oil Cooler - Speedway Motors, America's Oldest Speed Shop

 

Does it retain the OEM oil filter??? Seems like that cap allows full flow to the cooler using some steel filter setup. Looks good...wish there were better installation pictures or instructions.

 

In the one picture you can see the OEM filter housing and in the parts picture the only filter is the cleanable/reuseable coolant filter. I'm going to have to say the oil filter is retained. I agree, more pictures would be great.

 

Looks cool, but I don't see $1300 worth of stuff there... I'm guessing that's why most don't use it.

Someone buy it and let us know how it is.

 

BPD wants $2300 for theirs. I like the idea. When mine takes a dump I'm going this route. Yes it sounds spendy, but in the I like the idea of getting the oil cooler out of the block and a 100% coolant filter. Sure would make subsequent maintenance easy.

 

I think me and Bob figured this out that it's not going to be a 100% coolant filter. Someone take the time to figure out the flow rate for the OEM coolant pump, then match it up against the flow rate for the filter, I bet the filter can't even handle that. Plus Bob brought up the point that there are alternate routes for the coolant to go, so in effect wouldn't it still be a bypass setup?

 

I think we are thinking the same ---but different, when I said inline instead of bypass I was only talking about the one small line from the intake, Not the full flow of the pump through the 1 3/4" lines. That small line coming off the intake is a bypass line and when you put it into a Tfitting for another bypass line you are not getting alot of coolant through it so I was saying don't put the T in until after the flush to catch all the debri while flushing instead just a little if it was set up as bypass.

Now the unit from IPR does use an inline filter, not a bypass filter, a bypass filter would let coolant pass around the filter if filter clogged, this one does not, so No debri should make it into the cooler. Thios unit uses the 3/4 line that come right from the waterpump to the heater core, they put a T in line with that for more flow. Then I believe the coolant then goes to the EGR cooler or the Delete, which ever you have and the original feed for stock oil cooler is blocked off by the plate.
A full flow filter for a motor thius size would be about a foot across and 2ft high if we were filtering off the 1 3/4 lines, don't think any off us have room for that.