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Intercooler for NA

Postby JSE » Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:10 pm

Could someone please tell me what would be a good size intercooler for an NA running low boost (5-6psi)? Could you please give me dimensions to work off and inlet/outlet size. Thanks alot.

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Postby AL » Sun Feb 04, 2007 10:40 pm

A 280x300x75 Ebay intercooler is perfect for that. I think they are 2.5 inch inlet and outlet. A silicon 2.5 to 2 inch reducer on the turbo side will be spot on there.
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Postby Fatty » Mon Feb 05, 2007 3:42 pm

a few of us have bought the CoolingPro 550x140x65 INTERCOOLER WITH 2.25 INCH INLETS from JustJap for our NA's.
also, mx5racing has one of these fitted to his NB SE racecar and he likes it.

if you're not in a hurry, i MIGHT be selling mine in a month or so (brand new , never fitted) as i scored an AVO intercooler recently. altho i might decide to bundle a turbo and manifold and fuelling computer + injector with it and sell it all off in one hit.
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Postby Fuzzlet » Mon Feb 05, 2007 5:58 pm

Hey mate, short of getting out a tape measure I couldn't tell you the dimentions. Do you have a/c that u wanna keep? If so call simone, as she can tell u the size of IC they used on my car
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Postby Sean » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:09 pm

Fuzzlet wrote:154rwkw @ 8psi


Impressive to say the least! What Dyno?
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Postby Boags » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:12 pm

Sean wrote:
Fuzzlet wrote:154rwkw @ 8psi


Impressive to say the least! What Dyno?


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Postby JSE » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:40 pm

Cheers guys...Yeah I was looking at some cheap cooling pro ones. Thanks Fuzzlet will do and Yes I do have a/c and p/s and I want to keep my a/c so custom piping is a must.

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Postby Fuzzlet » Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:58 am

JSE wrote:Cheers guys...Yeah I was looking at some cheap cooling pro ones. Thanks Fuzzlet will do and Yes I do have a/c and p/s and I want to keep my a/c so custom piping is a must.

Thanks for all the help so far

Hmmm power steering will make the piping harder. Daniel commented on the lack of power steering meant that getting the piping from the turbo to the IC was a lot easier, as the power steering pump gets in the way, so makes working the pipes a bitch
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Postby JSE » Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:39 am

How does 300x225x55 sound? Would that be big enough but not to big?
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Postby Boags » Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:42 am

JSE wrote:How does 300x225x55 sound? Would that be big enough but not to big?


It is much better than the cooler that comes with GReddy kit... :lol: Maybe on the small side, but you are only going to be running low boost as you say... It should do, and that size will be easier to fit I think.

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Postby sabretooth » Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:10 pm

Sounds good.
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