James Raby

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Plumbed up the turbo cooler last night on my car, got to late and started to get cool so didn;t bother testing it out

Anyway....today was a scorcher by the coast and a little way inland

Cained the living shite of the car on a nice straight bit of road (3 mile long) and the water temps you could see the needle literally moving down hehe

At stands till or in 20-30mph traffic, yes it worked it's way up to half as would expect, but did NOT go above that and just settle there, no need for interior heaters to be on, was left on full cold

Just saying, it DOES perform miricales - well it did on mine and very happy with the result

I have still yet to test it on a long journey or for prolonged periods of time so just giving my 2p's worth on what 'I' think of it

adamS2RST

Good stuff Raby

James Raby

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I thought so

The Sludge

Stu.H

hearing a lot of good stuff about pro alloy.

might have to invest in all 3 at some point



what exactly does the turbo cooler do james?

AndyRST

what sort of ACT's are you seeing at what boost above what ambient temps James ????

James Raby

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cools the hot water that exits the turbo

Basically, water line out of turbo goes to top of the 'turbo cooler' or pre-rad as it is more commonly known politically correct term anyway

Then another hose comes from bottom of 'turbo cooler' and enters the turbo inlet port on the main radiator (small one half way down - left hand side - as you look at the front of car)

make a long story short, doesn;t get the main rad so hot due to the hot water being cooler BEFORE it enters main system, phew!

Stu.H

sound

James Raby

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Andy, I 'think' my ACT gauge is mis-reading BUT...

Today ambient of 29.8 degrees (bollocks it was!!!) when setting off to do the 'stretch' ........Then - flat out in 5th gear it showing 55.3 degrees

Boost level is 1.7bar peak and 1.3/1.5 variable held

ACT's...
Inlet temp taken from inlet manifold oulet (2 pipes at top of inlet)
Ambient temp taken from within the front bumper (away from engine heat)

wayneclayden

good news james.... about time too!
ps hope you are feeling better now!

James Raby

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Just to add, The actual intercooler top core (top of intercooler) where it's supposed to be very cool has infact NO heat on it at all after one hell of a caining session, BUT the ACT's are higher than with the GRS fitted

With the GRS fitted, the ACT's wer NOTICIBLY lower at about 40 degree MAXIMUM

BUT....the interesting part....wait for it ......

With the Pro Alloy cooler the car is more responsive, faster to accelerate and has shed loads more power than it did before

My flat spot 'seems' to have completely disapeared that I had at about 4.5k with the GRS fitted

MY conclusion, it does exactly what I wanted it to do

I will be speaking to Mike (when I CAN speak - got larangitus) to see if he can repair my wire that comes from the sensor on Inlet and will put the ambient wire into top intercooler hose to see if any major differences between the 2 sensors

Take in mind heat soak from the turbo considerably heats up the charge carrier - in effect it completely defeats the object of cooling all that hot air only to get heated up again from a damn cast alloy charge carrier

Speaking of which I have had discussions with someone about making up a alternate route for the charged air to be carried

AndyRST

Poor Mr C

James Raby

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It's not him, honest lol
I wouldn't want to cause more of a headache I already cause him at times ROFL!!