Whos made a Y33 Trans Cooler...mbers used.

[Louis Cyphier]

I havent been able to find anything via search for a Y33, anyone made a kit? If so got the parts/part numbers used?

[Rex]

Get the gasket, one time use screws, and screen filter from Joe now. B&M is available from Summit Racing. I used the 70264 model. Look in member's rides for pictures of it.

Hunt through Maxnix's picshttp://nissaninfiniticlub.net/...er=27

[maxnix]

B&M 70264 from http://www.summitracing.com

[Q_SHIP]

I will be doing this soon as well.

[BadQ45t]

I have not done one on my 97', I don't live in high heat, is it still recommended? I saw the Afco color on the summit site, is that what people are running?

If you lived on the San Mateo coastside where we rarely see anything north of 80 degrees is it still going to make the transmission last longer?

[BadQ45t]

sorry, duh me, I found the B&M, didn't come up the generic search on transmission color....is that the one recommended over the Afco?

[elwesso]

really any stacked plate cooler vs a tube/fin cooler is recommended... The stacked plates are about the same

[maxnix]

If you lived on the San Mateo coastside where we rarely see anything north of 80 degrees is it still going to make the transmission last longer?

Got hills? Drive at high speeds, especially up gradients? ATF cooler will help. The FY33 ATF heat exchanger is a joke, or rather a coke can sitting in the radiator's bottom tank.

[Falkdesigns]

If the stock one is such a "joke" why have I never heard of one failing? From what I can gather, the factory has done an excellent job of fixing the previous issues and producing a strong, long life transmission. Mine's full of Redline anyhow, but one day I'll get around to putting one in, just for the insurance sake.

[elwesso]

the cooler doesnt fail... it just makes the trans fail.....

BTW youll notice that the later gen Q with the factory trans filter and twin cooler make the trans last a lot longer..... I dont really think the heat exchanger is necessarily the problem as it is the exchanger CLOGGING. Granted, the stock heat exchanger does a DECENT job, but it snot good enough...

youll notice that no Y33s are over 10 years old and have lots of miles... all the high miles (say over 200ik) Y33 have to have mostly highway driving... the only time when they had failures of the trans DUE to H.E. was the early 90-92s, then in 93 they redesigned to the twin H.E. with filter.....

It may be "good enough" or "marginal" at best, but at $50 plus EASY install, why woudlnt you do it??

your a big enough anti OEM fanboy i figured youd want to swap to an aftermarket part as soon as possible!!!

[maxnix]

If the stock one is such a "joke" why have I never heard of one failing? From what I can gather, the factory has done an excellent job of fixing the previous issues and producing a strong, long life transmission.

Basically, the VH41DE is 10% less power than the VH45DE, so the transmission is not as stressed. Nissan obviously determined that the VH41DE did not require the same twin tank heat exchanger as the VH45DE did. Overall, they were right. But in particular high stress circumstances, they were certainly wrong. Synthetic ATF will widen the operational thermal parameters, but an ATF cooler will help attenuate those parameters.

Using both is best for long life, along with the prescribed by Q45tech NICO maintenance regimen.

[Falkdesigns]

I never questioned the cooler failing, what I meant is I've never heard of a transmission failing in Y33. 97's will be 10 years old in about 5 more months (figure that model year begins in August the prior year). I guess part of this for me is that I would never keep a car for 200k anyhow, as I've said before, I've never had one for more than 40k and I'm half way there with this car. I might keep this one for around 50k, but that's about it.

And I'm not anything close to anti-OEM, I just know that OEM is NOT the only thing that works.