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[fiestarst2k3]

Gettin one soon, just wondered
if any1 was runnin one and if
they were happy with it, was
it worth the 500+ price tag?!?

[snake]

yes but mines modded and run it with an intercooler

[Stoned]

GavRST was happy enough. 200bhp on the rollers

I'm gonna get one too at some point. Your idea of intercooler and charge cooler sounds interesting snake.
That must give you some really low temps!

Any chance of a pic of your engine bay with that setup?

[snake]

nope , follows ambient temps, never seen it above 40oC, modifying it more to run more boost later in the year

[Stoned]

Hmm ok. Only looking for ideas mate. Actually I reckon I know how I could do it anyhow.

[MENTAL]

Someone want to explain what the fook one of them does .. soz im learning as u can tell

[Stoned]

It's like a turbo intercooler, it cools the air going into the turbo except it uses water for better cooling.

[TrekkieFRST]

I awlays thought a charge cooler replaced/went over the charge carrier cooling the charge air temps before going into the Inlet?

Water is pumped round the charge carrier then passed back to a water radiator, sometimes located under the battery tray to release the heat?

so am I wrong?

[MOONDUST FRST]

It replces the intercooler not the charge carrier

[AdrianFRST]

I don't know why I bother writing any articles...

http://www.fiestaturbo.com/content.php?page=rsttuning

About halfway down, after chips. Explanations of intercoolers and chargecoolers.

Been there for at least two years!

[TrekkieFRST]

A chargecooler works differently to an intercooler in that it uses water rather than air for cooling. An electric pump flows water from an alloy reservoir known as a header tank, through a pre-rad at the front of the car where it is cooled, before entering a jacketed core where it cools the inlet down to 30 degrees C. The pre-rad is very small in dimension compared to an intercooler so is easy to locate in the Fiesta's engine bay. The core itself is not reliant on airflow so it can be placed anywhere in the engine bay. Under the battery tray in the case of the Pace system.

I read it when I first came to the site

I always thought it was used in conjunction with the intercooler...

oh well, I'd want to use it with the intercooler anyway

[fiestarst2k3]

replys appreciated. The intercooler
workin with the charge cooler sounds
gud, think ill b lookin into that 1.

stoned pm me with your ideas on how
u think they plumb together, seen
as snakes keepin hush hush bout
his ingenious contraption

any 1 runnin a charge cooler got any
pics of there bay.

get the turbo back in bout a week,
then the runnin in begins. gonna keep
it under 2500rpm 4 1000 ( ) miles.

[snake]

lol, theirs pics on here somewhere, its all custom stuff, and my engine bay is literally crammed, it works and suits my car perfect for wot i use it for, well used to use it for , most peeps have seen a piccy of it, well old peeps anyway

[Andy.B]

Yep and all i can say is that its jamed in that bay

[InS@nE]

i've seen snakes, in the flesh too


my mate had a chardge cooler it was ok but once you got heat soak they kinda loose there purpose. i had a custom front mount cooler, was 2 2wd cossie ones with some custom pipeing, i was geting inlet of about 5-12deg on a none water cooled turbo at 18psi, suited me fine and only cost about 120 quid for coolers, and pipe work

[TrekkieFRST]

i've seen snakes, in the flesh too

Well ain't you special!!! I've only ever heard his car discussed, never seen it

I've always been suspicious that it exists but if you've seen it then it must

[snake]

lol, ade and mine are ghost frst`s , will be done over winter, although i said that last year , got decent job now though

[TrekkieFRST]

lol, ade and mine are ghost frst`s , will be done over winter, although i said that last year , got decent job now though