RedVYIISS
22-07-2007, 07:55 PM
Calling all F/I guru?s!
For those that don?t know, I ran up the rear end of a Nissan Pathfinder last week. As a result, I have to replace the intercooler.
The last one was a Cheap Charlie import with a 600 x 300 x 100 mm core. It worked well simply because of the huge core size?. How well? Who knows, I never did any logging to compare my IAT?s with anyone else?s. The 100 mm deep core meant that location was a problem and the front crash bar had to be modified to accommodate the coolers depth, and I lost my driving lights.
As the repair will involve new bar, new crash bar and new intercooler, rather than modifying the new crash bar to accommodate the same type of intercooler I thought I?d use a 76 mm deep core this time, and if I go ?up market? in intercooler, I might be better off in any case.
Who?s done some research / comparison of one cooler V?s another, and what cooler should I be buying? (it?s a single turbo application with cooler arrangement similar to a Gen T). What do we recon fella?s.
Voodoo, I notice you've gone PWR for your blower system. Did you compare others? from mempory, Dale uses PWR as well though I think that had more to do with failures in cheap charlie's rather than performance comparisons (though I might be wrong, the PWR's may have performed better as well)
For those that don?t know, I ran up the rear end of a Nissan Pathfinder last week. As a result, I have to replace the intercooler.
The last one was a Cheap Charlie import with a 600 x 300 x 100 mm core. It worked well simply because of the huge core size?. How well? Who knows, I never did any logging to compare my IAT?s with anyone else?s. The 100 mm deep core meant that location was a problem and the front crash bar had to be modified to accommodate the coolers depth, and I lost my driving lights.
As the repair will involve new bar, new crash bar and new intercooler, rather than modifying the new crash bar to accommodate the same type of intercooler I thought I?d use a 76 mm deep core this time, and if I go ?up market? in intercooler, I might be better off in any case.
Who?s done some research / comparison of one cooler V?s another, and what cooler should I be buying? (it?s a single turbo application with cooler arrangement similar to a Gen T). What do we recon fella?s.
Voodoo, I notice you've gone PWR for your blower system. Did you compare others? from mempory, Dale uses PWR as well though I think that had more to do with failures in cheap charlie's rather than performance comparisons (though I might be wrong, the PWR's may have performed better as well)