Right I'm pleased to say I have finished converting my Fiesta RS to a cossie intercooler and I'm gonna show you how I did it

And then you can just look at pics and admire the car

First of all I would like to say thanks to Moondust FRST. Without seeing a pic of his GRS IC pic I would never have got my idea in the first place. Cheers dude

Second my aim was to increase the cooling and IC performance by getting bigger items, but without messing up the looks of my car. I think what I have done is a good blend of looks and styling, but let me know what you all think too.

The project conception, some crap scrawls on a bit of notepaper


Then the design that poor Graham at GRS had to work with lol. Aint windows paint a quality app?


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The finished product back from GRS. Amazing considering what I gave him to work with haha


Next I had to get my car like moondusts. The reason being when you remove the front valence I noticed on his car a small lip of metal that I quickly realised could be used to weld a shelf too. So off with my bumper and valence


Rough cut, but you can see the metal lip I was talking about


Now a quick test to see how my cossie intercooler would fit


Next fast forward a few weeks and I have had my shelf welded into place and I have spray painted it


And here is the IC and rad in place. Unfortunetly my measurements for Graham were out so I sent the stuff back to him afterwards and he sorted them all out for me


And here are the pics of the finished result of my work. Tooks months to come to this which is why I am sharing it with you. Hopefully you might get some idea's of your own from it



Look at all that room! No fan getting in the way


New layout


Rear mounted XR2i fan. Having an XR2i shell worked in my favour. The mounting wholes were already there so only an hours extra work cutting and drilling was needed to get that in place


Overhead view




Obviously the number plate get's in the way a bit, but I dont mind as I wanted the new IC to be stealth anyhow. I can always remove the plate for track runs anyhow.


Beast


So what do you all reckon?

 

very nice.

superb welding, who did that? what company?

cost?

how come you went that route instead of keeping the Pace, or Going GRS, wouldnt the costs of been similar after all that welding?

 

Not bad for a girls car!

 

GRS Motorsport of course

£70 for the welding, £300 for the radiator inc P&P

I went this route because a 4x4 cossie intercooler is much better than a pace alloy IC. And I always felt the front of the fiesta engine bay was so cluttered with the pace IC overlapping the rad and the fan in the way.

With my new setup everything is so much cleaner and the effects of having a Cosworth IC can be felt straight away in power terms.

Oh and I didnt get a GRS IC because they are too big, would need to hack up my bumper AND lose the bonnet locking mechanism which would mean bonnet pins. With my design I had to do none of these and still have a rad and IC combo that is more than enough for a measily T2 turbo

Chris

 

fookin hell thats keep!

top stuff Graeme!

 

Very good,i would move the number plate up to get more air in,as at the moment it wont be doing alot

 

but shouldnt u resize the number plate? 80% of the ic is blocked off by it

other then that is looks ace

 

Anyone got any suggestions where I can get another number plate?

Something smaller, but not so small Plod take offense and start looking for things wrong with the car

 

Just trim your plate down,as long as the letter spacing are right,there is fuck all they can do

 

But that would mean losing my nice silver trim

 

 

That isn`t actually correct - minium borders apply. Can`t remeber the exact borders required of the top of my head but there is a minimum amount.

 

Your not really that funny tbh.

 

 

nice conversion mate.. been a good few RST's with it now some having 2 cossie coolers

BUT either relocate that number plate as it is blocking shit loads of it

and agree, that chrome trim is IMO

 

Keith of here took his trimmed down plate to an MOT station and they said it was fine

 

I used to get a load of aggro of the local plod when I had a cut down plate on my car, I used to take it to a local MOT station (for the vehicle rectification notice or whatever it`s called now) who used to say it was okay, but I was looking at the DVLA`s website about it some time ago and found:

http://www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles/regm...htm#before2001

Which says either 11mm or 13mm borders minimum depending on group

You’d probably get away with a cut down plate 9 times out of 10 though, it’s just the awkward younger coppers who seem to cause problems.

 

Tiff's just a hairy oaf!....

 

Your install is ABSOLUTE ACE!! Well done, i'm sure you're pounds ahead!!

As for your number plate crisis, buy a copy of Classic American. In the back is a place that makes American-style plates which are now (thanks to new regs) British-spec. Get one, and offset it ala' Mitsu Evo. Fully legal and sweet as fuck!