Oil Cooler Delete - Highly Recommended

 Lotus fit two oil coolers to the 2005 Elise.  Oil Temp testing by the community revealed that we have an over cooling problem with our cars.  These cars have significantly more oil capacity thanks to the twin coolers and associated piping.  We firmly believe cold oil is contributing the cam wear that many have experienced.  

Lotus deleted one of the coolers starting in 2006 - unless you have a Sport or Track Pack equipped car.  They used a hard line pipe in place of the oil cooler (as shown above) on the passenger side of the car.  We have been purchasing these lines to delete the extra cooling in our own cars - including our 111RS.

The OE part is no longer available so we decided to create our own using some parts that we have used in other oiling solutions that we offer.  So we stole some bits from our ULTRAliteLINES and HOTplate to create our own oil cooler delete pipe.  We are installing this onto a good clients car.

We now have enough experience to recommend deleting one cooler on all street-only cars and most track cars.  As a result. we will create a part for sale based on this first article soon.