Chargecooler And Cold Air

[richiekuk]

Hi all.

Heard a little rumour about people polishing their chargecooler cores and lagging them to help keep heat out and therefore charge temperatures down.

Anyone got anymore information on this, and any pictures.

Sounds like a free way to keep the power up on my lovely st205, and am well interested in that.

Also anyone sorted out a cold air feed to the air filter, cos when I get my apexi power intake, I just want it to suck in lovely cold air.

Thanks in advance

Richie K

[Sketchy]

Hi all.

Heard a little rumour about people polishing their chargecooler cores and lagging them to help keep heat out and therefore charge temperatures down.

Anyone got anymore information on this, and any pictures.

Sounds like a free way to keep the power up on my lovely st205, and am well interested in that.

Also anyone sorted out a cold air feed to the air filter, cos when I get my apexi power intake, I just want it to suck in lovely cold air.

Thanks in advance

Richie K

Lagging the chargecooler has been about for a while. Basically get some decent heat reflective material, and cover the bottem and sides of the chargecooler to hold heat soak at bay. Leave the top black though unless you want it bling as polishing it silver does nothing to help cooling as black actually radiates heat better than silver. :D

As for the cold air feed best thing to do is rip out the resenator box in the wing and fit a pipe from the bump air intake under the indicator to the air filter location, theres already a handy gap for routing the pipe through from the wing to the engine bay.

[GT4 BOOSTER]

wash out the charge cooler with petrol when you remove it, keep flushing it until the petrol runs out clean and all the age old oily gunk is removed ,can gain you a few ponies , block 1 end with a plastic bag and a rubber band will help.

[richiekuk]

Nice one cheers.

The chargecooler was drained and cleaned a few months ago when the plugs etc were changed.

Will get some heat reflective stuff though for next time

As for the cold air feed, bring it on

Thanks

Richie K