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Old 02-01-2011, 11:27 AM
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Default Fitting a front mount IC, how do you secure the rad?

As title, really , how have people secured the right side of the rad when they replace the standard intercooler?
Old 02-01-2011, 01:09 PM
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i have a grs cooler and if you buy it direct from grs hey send you a small bracket that fits to your rad and pops in where the standard cooler is. dosnt , move at all!!

ill grab a pic of it of you want.
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ah cheers, i bought mine used. Didn't get the bracket. but my rad is custom anyway and doesn't have the bolt thread at the bottom so might be useless anyway.

thought that might be something to do with it but was hoping there was a good bodge for it
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how bad is your rad moving ? i take it its a alloy one ..... might be woth having a little section put on and bolting it to cross member
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My airtec alloy rad came with the brackets to mount it to the crossmember.
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No its a custom copper core rad with brass end caps. More efficient than alloy rads and no crappy plastic end caps to crack either.

Its not moving very much at all tbh, but the only thing holding it in place is the pipes. so no good really. i'll sort something out, but just wondered how others have dont theirs.

Joe.
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bracket bolts to my rad at the top and goes into the front panlel keeping everything still
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