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analogue_radio

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17th Jul, 2010 at 05:55:23pm

Caught my eye as its shiny and new!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Alloy-Front-Mount-Un...#ht_5490wt_1139

It will also fit in the grille, but is it just some tosh? It is a UK based company, although it could come from China.

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17th Jul, 2010 at 05:59:07pm

looks neat!! mite purcase one for both my cars, mini and starlet

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he floated over to mine for a bit of ring

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17th Jul, 2010 at 06:13:49pm

looks nice and for that price i would want to know the efficincey of the intercooler and the pressure drop across it ?

analogue_radio

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17th Jul, 2010 at 06:16:02pm

Is it worth me taking a chance, I mean I'm only running a timid 998 turbo.. so I'm not exactly pushing anything. Think it's worth a punt?

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17th Jul, 2010 at 06:28:26pm

All of the egay stuff use shite cores from fuck knows where. They usually get away with performing ok because the cores are much bigger than actually needed.

So no doubt it would work fine.

If you look inside the tubes, pressure drop will likely be minimal, because there is very little to restrict the airflow. Of course, the other side of that means that little actual cooling will take place because the air just shoots straight through.

But for a 998 turbo, I'd imagine it would be more than adequate.

Edited by stevieturbo on 17th Jul, 2010.

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17th Jul, 2010 at 06:30:49pm

Wasnt there a thread about this recently??

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17th Jul, 2010 at 06:32:31pm

Rod S had a thread about these cheaper intercoolers, probably best to look at that as he did some fairly scientific testing

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i tried putting soap on it , and heating it to brown , then slathered my new lube on it

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analogue_radio

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17th Jul, 2010 at 06:34:29pm

Cheers for the name, I searched for intercoolers and it came up with hundreds of results.

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17th Jul, 2010 at 07:59:58pm

Ours looks very similar to that on the TT, has reasonable looking internals and seems to do the job.

Compared to some of the OEM stuff I've used it looks pretty similar, but I've never tested efficiency, pressure drop or flow. But it's hot at one end and cold at the other, which is all you want.

I'd be interested in to read the thread mentioned above though.

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the design shows a distinct lack of imagination,
talk about starting off with a clean sheet of paper, then not bothering to fucking draw on it,lol

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I'm mainly concerned about swirl in the runners caused by the tangential entry.


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17th Jul, 2010 at 08:44:07pm

there you go will

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=371421

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chepstow

18th Jul, 2010 at 12:12:41pm

Time to look for a new intercooler for me then...
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