Intercoolers Again another bloody question !
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I know I know I am the 10000 person to ask
the bottom line is I am appealing to you all !!!

I am keeping my Servo, and Oil Cooler

and I wannnna intercooler ...

what is my best bet in terms of space and performance

Ford Escort Turbo
Renault 5
AN Other

PLeeeeeeeeeease

Steve the old fart from Kent !

TurboLessTosser

escort rs turbo

NO LONGER A <3 lover of BOLT-ON plastic <3 .... (and DOUBLE proud of it)

The reason why this question gets aked alot is because there is no answer, or more acuratley there are a million answers.

I've never seen two turbo Minis with the same intercooler setup.

I basically went to my local scrapyard (with a bit of knowledge about what made a good intercooler) and searched their shelves for half an hour til I found something that did three things:

1) It would fit
2) It was in good nick
3) It was a reasonable design.

R5 and RST intercoolers fit the above criteria, I used to use an R5 cooler but blew it to pieces.

Was that too much waffle?

Wil

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

The Series 2 escort one is a cracking intercooler - really efficient for its size. It would be pretty hard to fit with a dizzy in place however unless you modified it (assuming a round-nose).
The R5 one will be very hard to fit and make work properly.

seems like the escort one it pretty popular

What about a LandRover TDI Intercooler ?

So shall I rule out R5 .... Yeah ?

TurboLessTosser

I have a series 2 escort rs turbo intercooler on ebay at the moment

Team Racing

Jimster .
If you name you price now I would be more than willing to send you a payment via paypal straight away ?
Or do you wanna wait for the auction to end ?

TurboLessTosser

disco TD5 yes. 2/300Tdi NO!!!

ive fitted a diesel shogun intercooler to mine ive mounted it under the servo above the gearbox pretty much in line with the inner wing, it was a very tight squeeze and it would never fit behind the grill!
ive cut the inner wing out a bit and the intercooler had a fan and cowel on it so i removed that and modified it to fit inthe wheel arch and duct a bit more air through.
ive not wired the fan in yet( dont know what temp the fan switch in the intercoller works at) and on a warmish day i measured my intake air temp at the plenum and it was 32c max at about 6psi boost. i admit its a touch laggy but not to bad.
so like wil says there is no answers id say go scrappy see whats about also the scrappys are good for collecting hoses too.

p.s i think i should have fitted one a bit smaller and put it behind the grill

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

a small intercooler in direct airflow is much better than a huge intercooler with low airflow

Team Racing

b12, I' got your email mate, I'd rather wait till the auction ends.

Team Racing

yeah thats what i think now jimster or could they be about the same? ill see how it works when me fans wired in.
i suppose the prob with a big cooler is lag so if i were to fit another id go with a small one
i tend to buy and fit on impulse then think later

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.