S16 Oil/water Heat Exchanger

[Carlos16v 5]

Went to take my 205 out yesterday and discovered a coolant leak from the oil/water heat exchanger. It's got an S16 engine fitted and I assume it's the original part, but I'm struggling to find a replacement part which has the same 90 degree bend on the inlet/outlet pipes. Can anyone confirm if a part from other models would fit?

 

Thanks

[welshpug 1,657]

yes they had one as original equipment, one from a gti6 engine would do the trick.

 

for the time being you can remove the pipes and bung them.

[Miles 331 1 Cars]

Just remove it as it's more pipes etc that can leak

[Carlos16v 5]

Annoyingly I've just had put in a new rad and replaced some of the pipes/connections but this wasn't leaking at that point. It would certainly tidy things up if I could remove completely but the oil already seems to take ages to warm up, would removing not mean it would take even longer?

[welshpug 1,657]

yes, in my experience its much better to retain them on a road or rally car, the standard 1.9 arrangement with the air-oil coolers take so long to warm up.

 

if we all took the take stuff off attitude we'd all be running aircooled carb engines still

[Carlos16v 5]

Thanks both. Got a 2nd hand unit from a GTi6 coming so will keep it on there for now

[welshpug 1,657]

had a check on servicebox, same part numbers for the 10j4 and 10j4rs heat exchangers and bolts.