Oil Cooler Effectiveness

[JMHJ]

???
Don't the Air/Oil GSXR have a BIG cooler? And the new water engines also have small oil coolers.
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I always felt like I'd like a little more cooling for my 850 in the 100F summer weather. I now have it, but on a different bike (gsx1100g - BIG oil cooler)

[Rob S.]

And no the engine block isn't really begging for one, it depends on how you ride the bike, if you like lots of rpms etc etc, then yes by all means get one.

Of course I do like lots of rpms, but what I meant was that it was designed with installation of a cooler in mind (the two plugged holes on either side of the filter cover).

[Guest]

Of course I do like lots of rpms, but what I meant was that it was designed with installation of a cooler in mind (the two plugged holes on either side of the filter cover).

Yeah the two plugged holes is for an oil cooler. Like I said it's depends how you ride your bike. Gonna do some track racing, carrying a passenger alot, hot weather, lots of in town riding, those kind of things. Then install one, though just to install one because it has the means to have one, eh its up to you.

[GSX1000E]

Suzuki originally planned on installing oil coolers on all of the early GS1000 models but, to save money and keep the price down, they chose not to.
Every single major motorcycle manufacturer after about 1986 has installed oil coolers on most of their models so it MUST be a bad idea.