how fooking cool is that


seemed to be the best of ALL of them


Wonder how many will follow sheep and beleive me now when i say it REALLY is fooking COOL

edited to say, i have the AH fabrications one

 

How open for abuse have you left that statement!

Suprising result though mate, can't go wrong there can you, cheaper AND performs better!!

 

Dont forget they were ALL fooking impressive given the high ambients that day too...

 

i know


but VERY pleased, and now i can see how well it compares to others

 

true

 

Yeah, and don't forget, your WRC cooler must have come straight out of a Ford Sapphire WRC Cosworth

 

How was the AH one the best??

I believe the Radtec one was the most efficent

 

Well mine is mint never dropped below 65 degrees @ pod yesterday

 

all I can say after reading those test results is ........

Mike R

 

Gurne i didn't say mine was the best

richpon, it must have

 

Didn't you?

 

there's a difference between seems and WAS


if you look at the decreases on the temps, mine was VERY good, as it had some high temps to deal with, and worked extremly well

 

I'll cadge a look in the newsagent's mate............not buying a copy now I'm a Pikey Diseasel driver!

 

Hi All...

I remember seeing the pics at MSD of all the intercoolers ready for a review..i am obviously way behind the game

Where can I see the results????

Thks Malc

 

How did the pro-alloy one compare to the others?

 

In Performance Ford Mag mate

 

spadge there was i saw it

AH was better
then radtec, but very very close to the above
then pro followed by

rs500 genuine and pace

i'm going from memory here, maybe someone with the mag can confirm

 

in the mag PRO ALLOY was the daddy

 

Cool i am so glad i sold my genuine 500 cooler for 450 and bought a new bling pro alloy one at Ford Fair for a lot less then

 

yep that what i going to go for PRO ALLOY cooler

 

Go read the mag

 

Tib chose the Pro Alloy over them all too.. that says something eh?

 

like i said i was going from memory and i've had a long weekend hence i put

 

As Stu said, bearing in mind the high ambients on the test day, they all did well.

Worth noting that the genuine RS500 item is the oldest design of the lot.....Designed in 1985/86 = 18 years ago, using the very best core material/end tank design methods available at that time.

Surely it should come as no surprise that the newer versions would improve on the performance of the original, given that 18 years have passed?

Edited to say that i'ts no coincedence that the NEWEST I/C to the market-place the Pro Alloy product, did the best....Big up Wayne

 

Did the pace one come out last then!? lol

If so how much hotter was it than the others?

 

it peaked at 300c rhys

































nah only kidding

 

still @ Mike for his constant "nothing compares to the genuine one" and "others are barely any better than a std 4x4 cooler" rants, lol

 

Oh, Stu etc etc, the WEIGHTS of the coolers, did anyone notice if the AH one was any lighter than the others?

 

y r u all playing with baby coolers there shite
go the only way forward with 4 4x4 ones which am having made then my 4 2wd coolers will be up for sale
twice as thick as a rs500 one and bigger in side

cap in ya ass rainbum rs500 ones are shite as are pace ones

 

I was a little worried buying the Pro alloy before anything was known about it.. But I was very happy after reading the review

 

how much does Karl/Zoo charge for a 4 4x4 i/cooler???

might have to ebay the genuine 500

 

I got shot of mine before this mag came out as i suspected the result would be as is and i reckon genuine 500 coolers will drop in price now!

 

Cos nobody else has shifted their engine back two foot brom!!!!! We don't have have room for a sofa in there!!!

 

my radtech works excellently, 26psi held on a t34 .55 @ 7krpm in 5th in 20c ambients gave a peak of 48c and my secs monitor read within 1 degree of the r+b gauge before the doubters start

beat that for Ł300 delivered for an off the shelf piss to fit job

so in a public enemy styleeeee i got one thing to say about gen 500 coolers .......

dont believe the hype

.....or rainbird

.....................i didnt

PS brom your behind the times pal, quad coolers were done years ago you copying bast

 

yep, your probably right .

might have to sneak round mikes house and dent the fook out of his cooler then sell him mine as he still wont admit anything is better

 

Matt, that 48° C reading you saw MUST have been heat soak (i.e. the true reading on boost would have been much lower).....because even a shonky genuine RS500 I/C (like mine), typically gives charge temps that are not more than 14 - 18° over ambient while on boost.

 

doug

heat soak at 170mph

i reset the secs before the run whilst moving, the peak reading was from being held on boost for as long as i possibly dare before a corner not to be taken at silly speeds approached rather fast!! i glanced at the r+b gauge just before breaking and read the peak data from the secs whilst cruising after the run

you have to consider outlet temp also..... (were these tested in the mag? i havent got it )

mine will be a considerably higher than yours given the smaller turbo being borderline oversped, yours aint anything like the shaft speed or outlet temp a t34 is at that boost/rpm

PS presuming you have a t4 at approx 2 bar held?

 

But Matt, within one or two seconds of lifting the heat soak starts to build up! It rises very quickly AS SOON as you come off boost.

Fair point about the T34.....yes I am on T4 running 2.2 BAR boost with water injection (WI triggered at + 28 PSI boost/+ 38° C charge temps).

 

it didnt....and never has never done that in any large front mount intercooled cossie ive been in!! quite the opposite in fact! i9ve seen charge coolers take time to stabilise back after being saturated but never intercooled cars....i can see that maybe if i was to shut the throttle, stamp the brakes and stand idling it would soak it to death yes but as i said i backed off and then cruised along (throttle part open not on boost at say 100mph) i.e. air passing through the cooler thats now cooling the air thats being slowly pulled through it

 

sean aint moving his engine back nor did karl or martoon
speek to karl about coolers mate
we at zoo did our becuze karl dint have the time to do ours and there fore we only made our own on karls aproval