Mini Radiator straight onto Metro?
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Hi

Probably a really simple question but we have a metro turbo track car and are just about to fit a intercooler. Can we just fit a mini radiator to it? And is it a straight swap?

Cheers

Tom

you may struggle with cooling if you do that, but if there is room, you can give it a go.

Surley there is enough room to fit an intercooler in the front as well as a rad? maybe tryin dropping the rad dwon a bit lower.

Yuo may be better off fitting a Nova rad, as there not quite as tall.

Hope that helps

Team Racing

Dunno,but if you chop the metal bottom hose bend off where it joins the rad,replace it with a tighter curving rubber bend there is enougth room to fit a ser2 rs turbo cooler down the side.
Mk1 metro rads are also shorter widthwise than Mk2

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Hmm yeah could be getting a bit warm.

We have a s2 rst intercooler and it doesnt look like it will fit with our oil cooler up front too?

Hmmm what to do!

I put the oil cooler diagonal by the lh headlight where the battery was

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Thats a idea. Think we may just have to move it.

now for the next question, anyone know where i could source a metro turbo radiator? Thinking about the above point. I think it'll get too warm on a mini rad

Edited by TomWhite on 13th Sep, 2006.

Or you could look at a mini mpi rad as these seem upto the job of cooling 16v engine, hopefully should be good enough for the turbo motor as well

suggest yuo put a wanted ad on here for metty turbo rad... suspect we may have more spares than any metro site!!!

Pete

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I've got a brand new metro rad in my garage, seems a bit big for my mini, I think its from a K series? Is it any good for you?

Yeah i reckon a K series would be fine! :)

I think ive got some photos of it kciking around somewhere, let me have a look

this is the one mate

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/index.php?p=14&album=176

Yep that looks like what i need!

The radiator in the metro turbo was the same part as all the other models. The only difference is between mk1 and mk2 metro radiators.

And there is 2 types of plugs on the mk2 metro fans

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