Shep_Cobain

Right guys,

I have a front mount intercooler but one of the smaller ones that covers about a 3rd of your radiator.

Now My radiator fan is loose and i need to fit it to the radiator?!?!?

What should i use to ensure its a correct fit as the original fittings wont work as the fan used to sit in the middle of the rad...

Thanks.

antony215

I take it your on about the pace double capacity type intercoolers and your using the standard fan? If thats the case then you would need to make up a couple of brackets for the bottom of the fan out of that metal macarno stuff (cant remember what its called) or phone pace and they can supply the fitting kits but they were about £50 the last time i heard.

Just so you know them double capacity ones aint alot if any better than the standard inercooler.

JamboRS

there better than the std cooler at std boost,a good upgrade for a std car,its when u raise the boost it cant keep charge temps cool enough

antony215

Imo there a waste of money i wouldnt want to run more than 14 PSI max on one of them spend the extra few £££ and get a proper front mount one that will take the boost and keep the temps down.

JamboRS

i never said more than 14psi,i said standard boost,and for an upgrade from std its perfect,puttin a full front mount on a std car is overkill and not needed
people run high boost through these and then say there shit,there shit cause ur runnin it way past what its built for,your std turbo will be pushing around 13-14psi to achieve 10psi pressure with a front mount,why when the DC can take 10psi and isnt over workin ur turbo and still keep safe charge temps

antony215

I know id rather pay the little extra and have a full front mount on a standard car regardless its overkill or not and know that if i ever did want to up the boost i dont have to waste another £250+ in the future to buy a front mount because the double capacity one that i would have payed the same sort of money for aint up to the job of going over X amounts of boost .

studabear

shep search on ebay or phone auto specialists for radiator fan fitting kits £7.50 from a/s, i've just recieved 2 of them, they pull through your radiator and hold the fan in place

JamboRS

i knew u were goin to right that,why dont u run a big turbo and cts stg 2 box incase u want big power aswell
ill say it again,for std boost the DC beats any front mount for sale,simply because it can keep safe act's and doesnt have a pressure drop,the front mount is not suited for std cars.your workin your turbo harder than needs to be done,if ur seeing 13psi from the turbo u wont see 13psi coming out the cooler due to the huge pressure drop,thats a real waste,u upgrade as u go along,dnt overspec it when not needed.also u dont want charge temps to be too cool,optimum temps are are around 30 degrees(someone will know exact figure)
anyway its went off topic,start another if u want to discuss it further

for the rad the old faithful cables ties will work wonders lol

antony215

Because you can happily run more than 14PSI and not have to uprate the box you aint going to be able to do that on one of them double capacity ic's if you wanted to run more boost anything above 14PSI and you NEED to uprate it so why waste money on a double capacity in the first place because how many people run standard boost when they start buying aftermarket ic's i bet you any money you like this guy is going to want to run more than standard boost (if he aint already!) and so do 95% of others who buy them double capacity intercoolers so why not state to them the obvious in the first place rather than read there post about "i raised my boost and now my engines gone bang why" post in 3 months time.

Any why like you say it's gone WAY off topic now and im bored with talking about it



I'd phone them thats ALOT cheaper then what pace will want for probably the same sort of kit thing

Chris69

you either want the metal bar for fitting it which relocates the standard bottom mounting points or just make do with cable ties or some other sort of fitting kit.
I've just bought one of these DC intercoolers cheap second hand with the intention of running around 13/14psi- can't see why it isn't a worthwhile upgrade if thats all the boost you wanna run as its gonna cope better than the standard one surely.