madmatt Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 Ok folks its raiuning outside and I'm trawling the net to cure the boredom! I've been thinking of going down the bigger intercooler route for quite some time now. Has anyone on here fitted one?? Any good or bad comments? Adfvice on how to proceed?? Not sure wether to stump up mega bucks and go down the Jeremy Fearne/Allisport route or wether to get the full width intercooler from straight forward supplies and fit myself. anybody fancy banging a few ideas about my vehicle is a 300TDI 130 Cheers Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white90 Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 fit and fettle yourself nowt to complicated on a TDI to warrant the ££ the above want. But I'd recommend an EGT gauge before you start so you know what effects your having with FIP adjusting. finally make sure your Radiator is ok as you'll be covering it up and could lead to cooling issues if it is past its best. I have a 40% bigger Alisport one fitted to the engine around 115k FIP adjusted by me and an EGT gauge fitted. improvements can be had with a standard cooler and FIP adjusting which may be worthwhile before you spend any ££ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmatt Posted March 4, 2007 Author Share Posted March 4, 2007 fit and fettle yourselfnowt to complicated on a TDI to warrant the ££ the above want. But I'd recommend an EGT gauge before you start so you know what effects your having with FIP adjusting. finally make sure your Radiator is ok as you'll be covering it up and could lead to cooling issues if it is past its best. I have a 40% bigger Alisport one fitted to the engine around 115k FIP adjusted by me and an EGT gauge fitted. improvements can be had with a standard cooler and FIP adjusting which may be worthwhile before you spend any ££ Thanks Tony, have to say I quite fancy at least fitting the cooler myself, was going to fit a brand new rad while I was at it as its original and i don't want to be dismantling 5 minutes after fitting cooler!!. Is FIP adjusting really a job I can do or woukld that not be better left to some one with more engineering skill last thing I won't to do is bugger up a good engine! Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white90 Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 FIP is dead simple and easy to do even doing it badly won't immediately destroy an engine. minir adjustments make decent changes and with an EGT Gauge you have some way of seeing impending doom should you go too far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dred90 Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 Ok folks its raiuning outside and I'm trawling the net to cure the boredom! I've been thinking of going down the bigger intercooler route for quite some time now. Has anyone on here fitted one?? Any good or bad comments? Adfvice on how to proceed??Not sure wether to stump up mega bucks and go down the Jeremy Fearne/Allisport route or wether to get the full width intercooler from straight forward supplies and fit myself. anybody fancy banging a few ideas about my vehicle is a 300TDI 130 Cheers Matt When i fitted an Allisport full width intercooler, I began to experience slight overheating in the summer months due to the flow of air to the rad being restricted, I replaced it with the 40% one. Also fitting one will limit your front winch options due to the lack of space behind the grill caused by fitting it. Do the tweaks yourself, just make a note of the original settings first, so you can take it back to standard should the need arise. The EGT guage is definitely a good idea also.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmatt Posted March 4, 2007 Author Share Posted March 4, 2007 When i fitted an Allisport full width intercooler, I began to experience slight overheating in the summer months due to the flow of air to the rad being restricted, I replaced it with the 40% one. Also fitting one will limit your front winch options due to the lack of space behind the grill caused by fitting it.Do the tweaks yourself, just make a note of the original settings first, so you can take it back to standard should the need arise. The EGT guage is definitely a good idea also.. Thanks for that, Not worried about winch options have an MM in genuine LR bumper and never going to want to chop grill away to get leccy winch into smaller bumper. am interested in the comments on overheating though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white90 Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?act=atta...ost&id=1073 shows the 40% and lack of space for the full width if anyone other than Matt wants the recess the winch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 overheating is more likely to be a choked up radiator or lots of the little fins rotted away than anything to do with a bigger intercooler take the hint offered by the temp gauge and change the rad core, they are reasonably cheap from aftermarket suppliers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gelf Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 whats an EGT gauge?.......... sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white90 Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=1298 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gelf Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 think i know now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gelf Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 where do you buy the kits from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOA 93 Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 where do you buy the kits from? Not the ones shown above, http://www.turbobits.co.uk/acatalog/digita..._egt_gauge.html Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Baldwin Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 Ref overheating following intercooler fitment. A tip shown to me by Jeremy Fearn (and not something carried out on lots of other big intercooler fiments I've seen) is to make sure you fit an infill blanking piece to the raditator cowl on the engine side. This ensures the fans efforts are concentrated on cooling the radiator's surface area only, rather than have the fan waste its time cooling the rad and the big empty space alongside it where the std intercooler used to live. Kev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmatt Posted March 4, 2007 Author Share Posted March 4, 2007 Quite excited by this idea now particularly as it looks like a home workshopproject. Thanks for everyones advice keep it coming. Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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