| Message | It's not as efficient as an upright mounted cooler would be, but oil coolers in a lot of types of race cars are mounted like that.  When I built circle track cars we would mount the oil cooler flat into the decking of the car like that with a small scoop to force air through. Personally, never ran into any issues with air pockets or cavitation in doing that. 
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