I've owned a 2004 6 speed rx8 for a year now and I was just driving and I guess my tire somehow caught my bumper because only the driver side part of the bumper got ran over. Anyway, its a mess and my driver side oil cooler is warped. I heard the "AT" (I'm not sure what that means but I assume it means automatic transmission) ones have only one and the "MT" ones have two. and its different for US specs? I live in the US. I just need some advice because 500 dollars for a oil cooler is a lot right now on top of other things. I tried using the search but you know..

Thanks,

itsjustjoe.

 

Yes, AT-Automatic transmission, MT=Manual Transmission.

And yes, you need 2. That 1,500rpm higher rev limit is brutal on oil temps.

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And yet ......... all JDM 6 speeds come out with only one .

 

Technically no, but two is preferred for "obvious" (mostly false) reasons. Without swapping all of the oil cooler lines from a single cooler setup, it's going to be a modest challenge to adapt the dual cooler lines to single (not to mention that the adapted dual-single setup would not cool as well as a stock single setup due to the extremely long lines, which where the stock dual setup fails).

Your absolute cheapest and best option is to check a wreck yard for any series 1 rx8 and buy the drivers side cooler off of that. I think even the automatics (AT) had the drivers side cooler, so it shouldn't be too difficult. You may even be able to find one in the for FS/W section of this forum.