Jay Honeck wrote:
: A buddy of mine has an RV-6 with an O-360 in it, and he built a hinged
: aluminum cover plate over the oil cooler and connected a standard
: push-pull control cable, like a carb heat cable, to the cover so he can
: fine-tune the airflow thru the oil cooler in flight. Too bad we can't
: just simply do that to our certified airplanes or it'd make the wings
: fall off or something like that.

: That is just too bloody intelligent. I can't believe that's not a
: standard feature on every Spam can...

There is an STC for the Cherokee 180 with the firewall mounted oil cooler
to add just such a device. At least in my airplane the oil temperature
stayed at 180 without such a device, thus I never pursued it further.
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Aaron C.