well i fitted mine up today and having trouble with it big time never had any trouble with the old pro alloy with the fans on the cooler water temps r mad start the car from cold fans cut in half way and then stop like they should but the sec i drive the car fans stay on all the time and temp does not come down from hot i have not fitted the top mount as i think it will stop the flow to rad !!! and my car was running fine on the old pro set up.I have not change a thing from the old set up bar a new turbo.had a new core on rad only last year water pipes r fine and thomosat is fine here r some pics now and what it looks like with a std 90 spec on it

 

Everyone rants and raves about these front mounts but a lot of people have problems with water temps

 

i wish i never put a grs on my car from day one i would of stayed with my c/c

 

what you done with the old I/C mate?

 

its on fayes cabrio

 

shame, i want a big I/C for my MK5RST, dnt wanna buy a new one cus i cant afford it

 

I went for a charge cooler, i thought about the front mount but wanted to keep my bay looking as standardish as possible. Might try and mod a 2wd cooler in there as well, but am worried about flow

 

thing is when i had a c/c is was wank to as the pre rad would get as hot as the rad some days

 

I aws also thinking of getting a big maffus c/c rad made. The bigger the better i suppose

 

imo u cant beat an front mounted i.c if u can get the water temps right

 

blimey alex, that looks so restrictive to airflow

 

Must say it does look restrictive alex, your old 1 looked better imo didnt look bad at all.

 

thats y u got to have a cut out front bumper m8 u can have the best i/c in the world but its no good if u got no air flow going to it

 

this is the old one

 

yea mate, im gona see wot acts i get with the pectel on when i fire her up

 

have u got the wires the right way round to the fans mate?, if not it will never run cool

 

oh well what can i do now??? change the water again in the rad? to see if that makes any diff? fans r going the right way clockwise was told this new i/c is meant to be better

 

having the fans mounted on the i/c will cause u more overheating problems

 

but it did not thou so far it was better with them on looks like i be having mine back of fayes cabrio

 

sorry mate looked at the wrong photo, u have your fans on the rad

 

how hot ru getting on the gauge?

 

yep that is the 1st cooler pro done never any trouble with it

 

try some of that water wetter in your coolant, u also have a 82 degree thermostat?

mine runs very cool but i have a GRS though, when i first installed it mine run too hot and my wires were the wrong way

i have twin 10" kenlowes, cant remember which way mine spins though,

do u have to run that shield thing on the side of the i/c? that must be stopping air getting through surely

 

Are Pro alloy on this thread? Bit long to read...if you are could you give me a rough price of what a front mount identical to that would set me back? Its for my astra

Cheers

p.s sorry for the thread hijack

 

Check if the fans blow through the rad towards the engine bay. If they suck, they won't do shit all when the car is moving.

 

This is why I've kept the chargecooler and it suits the car extremely well, Alex, does it make any difference with your cut out bumper as apposed to the standard '90 spec one ?

 

if you never had any problems why change?!

if it aint broke dont fix it!

sorry to hear about ya probs sure wayne will help ya out if ya ask him tho!

 

Faye stole the other one!!

Sorry to hear your having probs alex. hope you get it sorted soon

 

spoke to grove and wanye today got a few tests to run when i get home fans r wired so they go clock wise like all fans do never seen a fan go anit clock wise james i got rid of mine as faye had an old pace on her cabrio and needed a better one asap as it was getting re mapped at grove so i give her my one mine car was off the road at thr time. then orded the new one one from them looks better with fans on the rad just hope i can sort this out

 

The fans do NOTHING once u are upto speed. The thing to do is to work out when it's running hot. Get on the motorway, stay at 70 for a few mins, and see what happens. If it stays cool, then the rad and cooler are fine - it's a problem with the fans. If it is STILL running hot, then u have more serious problems - maybe a headgasket.

Also, the slope seems to have gone on the new cooler - thats bad as it promoted even airflow through the cooler.

Rick

 

Alex- as discussed you need to check the air flow direction of those fans....
sounds like they are sucking the hot air from the rad and turbo and blowing it forward in the car straight on to the intercooler...

 

Rick, if the fans are running the wrong way they will stall the air when up to speed... These are the symptops that alex has described to me...
also he said the intercooler was so hot he could not touch it.. that will be the hot air being sucked from the rad....
on the note of the end tanks now being square... testing on the flow bench showed an almost indistinguishable difference between the sloping and square design....
customers were asking for square tanks with a parallel look......

 

I remember back in the days someone posting that above 40mph, the fans became useless and the natural airflow was taking over.

 

Yes - but if he drives it onto the Mway from cold - the fans wont come on will they!

 

may require overnight camping on the hard shoulder to ensure a cold start

 

I used to ahve probelms with fan direction!

stoopid mistake to make but it is easily done!

 

Sorry Rick, I put it up as a statement, not necessarily in the context of being relevant to this topic i.e I read your first sentence and my fingers were away typing

 

i can just imagine it now..

 

Same symptons as Bodge had with his GRS as well, fans were wired up wrong...