Ive just baught a 2.1 zvh mfi engine for my mk2 xr2, it came from an escort cabby with a HUUUGE radtec cooler fitted, this one:



basically all i wanna know is will a charge cooler work as well or better than that cooler?

Cheers

 

keep with the intercooler mate, charge coolers are of poor design in my eyes



Ben

 

Ive gone and baught one now and theres no room for the intercooler on a little fiesta

 

Furry Muff mate

good luck with it anyway



Ben

 

bear in mind that either way you need to be able to radiate the same amount of heat if you want to maintain low inlet air temperatures, so you will still need a biggish pre-rad for the charge cooler water, otherwise the water will just get heated up and the efficiency of the chargecooler will drop away and inlet air temperatures will rise.
Chargecoolers are OK for short-term cooling whilst the water is cool, but under sustained boost the overall heat dissipation needs to be the same as for the intercooler, so you need a means of dissipating the heat from the charge coolant.. and a little pre-rad squeeezed in wherever isn't going to do it.