Today i fitted this.......
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On a mini with the m45? any pics?

Not a mini and the vehicle in question ran a turbo.

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Them last pics are from a Ford Focus, charger conversion.. Belong to a guy called Will

This is how I want to do mine, but its space.

You'd need a tank in the boot I reckon for water to try keep it cool, a front mounted rad with fans and just hope you can get it all to fit lol.

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correctimundo, a fellow ffocer?

Anyways, using the above heat exchanger he's got IAT of 40-45 degrees on the road.

Dont forget that typew of charge cooler will not work with a wet manifold set up.

I have my views on the Vmax thingy, but I will reserve the right to keep them to my self untill it has been tested outside of Vmax. Im not sure as to its real purpose. Is it to cool the charge air or the charger. Hope you didnt pay too much for it

Hi Sprocket, nope i didnt pay much at all really, i reckon the parts and material would have cost me as much. Will be intresting to see the before and after results though, will get it all finished this weekend.

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Right, its finally all installed and working. From watching the inlet air temps whilst driving i reckon this has knocked around 10 degrees out of the charge temps which is pretty promising.

I had a few problems with the data logger yesterday so will get graphs up shortly.

I noticed that my AFR was at a constant 13.40 and that air temps was 12 degrees and coolant at 34 degrees!!

I found that the 100 0hm resistor on the lambda 0-5v signal had given up the ghost which i think was causing the data logger to do some weird things. Lucky it was in open loop at the time!

Anyways will give it another go once ive replaced the resistor and then post the graphs up.

out of interest, what sort of charge temps are you getting on the suck through setup? and at what kind of boost levels?

Mr. Prawn, the friendly Crustacean- slowly making steps towards forced induction.

Sounds good. Have you any more pics please of the final install and how its all plumbed in.

If this works I think I may be going supercharged rather than turbo!

Lightweight racer coming soon.

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Edited by minimole23 on 12th May, 2009.

Radleigh, what about saving some money over the suck through kits, and making your own blow through setup using a front mounted eaton? All you'd need is a complete turbo carb/fuelling setup, then to mount the charger above the alternator, and plumb it to the plenum via an IC. Sort out a decent BOV to avoid boosting on over run and you're away! More power potential, and less money.

Mr. Prawn, the friendly Crustacean- slowly making steps towards forced induction.

I'm looking for 150bhp ideally, nothing more and not wanting to mod the body in anyway as its a Paul Smith mini... sad I know but... lol

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So long as it looks like a PS Mini and still has the A series, then I dont care :p Just dont want to mod the body :(

Anyway... more about this charge cooler!

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Thats the same reason i went with the supercharger on my 500 Radleigh.

Full pictures and temps plots to follow as soon as i get chance.