What intercooler is this?
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The fella i bought it off said it was a renault 5 intercooler! Is it?
Was only a tenner so didnt turn my nose up at it

http://s249.photobucket.com/albums/gg233/b...t=random004.jpg

Edited by bertieboo on 18th Jan, 2008.

friggin pictures

No, it's not an R5.

Looks like a nice size though, and I can see it fitting quite nicely under a mini bonnet.

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

Not a R5 cooler, well not like the one on this page anyway.

The construction looks similar to the BMW one i have, could be from and older bimmer desil.

http://www.student.kun.nl/p.oonincx/Intercooler.html

Edited by Joe C on 18th Jan, 2008.

Difficult to tell from the pic, but if the pipes are 40mm or so, then it's a vauxhall TD unit. If they are 50mm, it's either a Vauxhall LET or a granada TD.

I think...

cheers mini13. I had a slight hunch it may be off an diesel vauxhall, as there was a blue turbo mini as the cover car on the miniworld mag, who had an intercooler of a diesel vaux, and it looked mighty like it. Just wanted to double check though

its not an R5, looks like a vauxhall TD cooler to me.

Pipes are 40mm. Would this be a good enough intercoooler or is it worthwhile changing to a 2wd sierra intercooler

that would do the job imo.

Edited by MarkGTT on 18th Jan, 2008.

depends,

how much boost will you be running?

that cooler will work ok but a cossie one will be better as it is about twice the size.

http://www.lyons-it.co.uk/photo/Intercoolers/index.html


There are Four pages of intercoolers in this link...

Dont know, was thinking 10-12

For what it cost i'd use that one, just try to get it somewhere where the air will get to it

lancia delta ic

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

nic used to have one on his car, try searching for pics (although theyre not working at the minute)

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

I boy i know who has a 2wd intercooler for sale, but didnt know if there was any point in changing! Im converting to megajolt, so was thinking somewhere in front of where the distributor used to be!

a boy i know has a 2wd intercooler for sale, but didnt know if there was any point in changing! Im converting to megajolt, so was thinking somewhere in front of where the distributor used to be!

Edited by bertieboo on 18th Jan, 2008.

thats not a delta one the fins are too course

looks like it could be usable, though dont copy the intercooler location of that one in the magazine-it does fork all

No nic wasnt thinking of the same place as you have yours (from your wee phto above)

Looks like a series 2 Escort RS Turbo intercooler to me. Had one for a project many years back.

astra van tdi...

I'd go with the S2 Escort as well.

It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt... Then it's hilarious!

RSt intercoolers are 50mm pipe. This is 40mm pipe. It is an intercooler off a Vauxhall TD of whatever model, but deffo a Vauxhall TD unit. :)

as far as i've seen all the VX TD units have plastic end tanks? mind you thats only the astra ones so could well still be a diff model.

that looks like silver paint on plastic caps to me????