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The hole you cut for the flexi hose, does it go through the inner guard bracing? i.e. the bracing channel?

kiwipete wrote:The hole you cut for the flexi hose, does it go through the inner guard bracing? i.e. the bracing channel?

Yip It was fun driving thr hole-saw
As you can see, I moved the washer bottle,( headlight bottle is now windscreen bottle.{better pressure})
Cheers.

sibainmud wrote:

kiwipete wrote:The hole you cut for the flexi hose, does it go through the inner guard bracing? i.e. the bracing channel?

Yip It was fun driving thr hole-saw
As you can see, I moved the washer bottle,( headlight bottle is now windscreen bottle.{better pressure})
Cheers.

Thought so, that's what I need to do for mine too.

I see what you were talking about with moving the bottles now, I may do the same thing

kiwipete wrote:I would be interested in a price for one please. My welding looks like chook poop.

not enough heat

wax wrote:I see what you were talking about with moving the bottles now, I may do the same thing

Now ya see what I was talking about. Gives heaps of spare room for things like huge turbos and inline air filters
Easy to do.

Cheers,

sibainmud wrote:

wax wrote:I see what you were talking about with moving the bottles now, I may do the same thing

Now ya see what I was talking about. Gives heaps of spare room for things like huge turbos and inline air filters
Easy to do.

Cheers,

I have no idea what your talking about hahaha

sibainmud wrote:I was thinking of "shoe-horning" a fan in too. Of the opinon that any cooler is better than none at all.
Cheers.

What about a water to air i/c? same cooling ability if your standing still or doing 200k , from memory some of the older turbo subarus ran them , unless you have a way of really chilling the coolant you wont get super cold intake temps but the big plus is the temp will be absolutelty consistent at all speeds/rpm/throttle positions which has an advantaged when tuning fuel mixture

I'm not sure what you're asking ^^^^^
Up to you what you run. The air/water, air/air debate has been done to death. I have my opinion for cost and simplicity reasons, and that's all i will say in fear of sparking it up again
My fan cooled setup works ok for me

Cheers,

Hey just out of interest Simon, have you got intercooler fan on a thermal switch? or just manual on/off switch?
Nath

has anyone thought of putting an intercooler infront of the air intake so that air is always sucked past it? i.e, just infront of where the filter would be?

slide wrote:Hey just out of interest Simon, have you got intercooler fan on a thermal switch? or just manual on/off switch?
Nath

FYI mine stays on all the time with the ignition switch.

slide wrote:Hey just out of interest Simon, have you got intercooler fan on a thermal switch? or just manual on/off switch?
Nath

Manual switch feed from the run circuit so it turns off when the engine is switched off. I only use it when off road and when under load at low speed. When the fan has been on for a little while, you can feel the temperature difference from the intake side to the outlet side with your hand

Cheers,

Dirtydog wrote:has anyone thought of putting an intercooler infront of the air intake so that air is always sucked past it? i.e, just infront of where the filter would be?

Sounds good in theory but your now heating the intake air up before it hits the turbo.

I suppose that is a very good point. Really defeats the purpose then doesent it?

sibainmud wrote:I'm not sure what you're asking ^^^^^
Up to you what you run. The air/water, air/air debate has been done to death. I have my opinion for cost and simplicity reasons, and that's all i will say in fear of sparking it up again
My fan cooled setup works ok for me

Cheers,

fair call i wasnt aware it was such a hot debate haha , at the end of the day i completely agree with your approach of whatever you can make work with what you have , i just replaced the rear of my exhaust with a peice of stainless bullbar to pass wof hahaha