{"id":28780,"date":"2022-03-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=28780"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:46:00","slug":"thoughts-oil-cooled-oil-cooler-issue-proto-round-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20220328\/blogs\/thoughts\/thoughts-oil-cooled-oil-cooler-issue-proto-round-effective","title":{"rendered":"[Thoughts] Continuing the oil-cooled oil cooler issue. Is the proto-round oil cooler effective?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/66c19942ab4ba346fdb64ccc04cde373-1-1024x461.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/66c19942ab4ba346fdb64ccc04cde373-1-1024x461.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/66c19942ab4ba346fdb64ccc04cde373-1-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/66c19942ab4ba346fdb64ccc04cde373-1-768x346.png 768w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/66c19942ab4ba346fdb64ccc04cde373-1-1200x540.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/66c19942ab4ba346fdb64ccc04cde373-1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After traveling around the world, I found that sourcing genuine parts is realistically impossible (including cost issues). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it breaks in a crash, that&#8217;s it\u2014a harsh reality indeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plotonline.com\/motor\/plot\/oilcooler\/lineup_03.html\">A practical proto-round oil cooler <\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s nice to have 13 stages with multiple settings. <br>Unfortunately, though, only the #6 setting is available. The upper and lower mounting is the standard bolt-together type. <br><br>If you cut off the boss and re-weld it, and fabricate a new mount, it might work effectively. <br><br>I also checked four-wheel options and other alternatives, but didn&#8217;t find anything practical. <br>For 1200-series bikes, go with something slightly larger than the Bandit. <br>For 1100-series bikes, damage could be a bit tough to handle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After traveling around the world, I found that sourcing genuine parts is realistically impossible (including cost issues). If it breaks in a crash, that&#8217;s it\u2014a harsh reality indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-28780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}