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For those of you that might not be aware I wanted to draw your attention to the fact that your intercooler might need replacing.

 

With salty moist air rushing through them in the winter they will corrode. I've got a 97 car and the front of the intercooler is starting to crumble and fall apart.

 

This will have an impact on the efficiency and the intercooler will not be performing like it should and could need replacing especially on the early cars.

 

An original replacement from Toyota would be approx £1000

 

Lovatt is kindly organising a group buy and they will be a fraction of this cost.

 

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  • 2 weeks later...

ive fitted the 1st one made to my uk tt with no probs at all (took about 40mins) everything lined up bang on, it is thicker than the stock i.c so the plastic inner arch just touches the i.c at the bottom corner but is no problem.

 

The diffrence was very noticable it pulled harder and smoother through the gears and stays cold to the touch even when giving it some right foot running 1.25bar, where as the old crumbly one used to get warm just driving normally (below 3.5krpm).

 

i need ten names down to get this thing rollin.......

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I offer this replacement for the stock mount IC, which uses a state of the art core and is made to a beautiful standard:

 

Is your intercooler falling apart, the fins corroded off the tubes?

If so, its efficiency will be extremely degraded. Running more boost

than stock? Is this a good idea? NO! It's not even a good idea running

STOCK boost with an I/C like that, and when the weather struggles above

freezing it will be a VERY BAD idea! Don't want to spend over 1400

quid on a new quality front mount intercooler, only to have half of

it masked by the aperture in the front stock bumper being too small to

allow air through all the core? Even with a new aftermarket bumper that

probably fits where it touches, (from what I have seen of most Jap

products), the air will just take the easy route AROUND the expensive

FMIC, rather than through it, because no ducting provision is made. The

answer is my uprated, all aluminium stock mount intercooler. It uses all

original mountings, and the original factory sealed ducting. It uses a

state of the art core with fine pitched finning, on modern tubes with

internal turbulators. The core uses 10% more tubes than the stock unit,

too. The quality of its construction is superb, and all are fully leak

tested under pressure before despatch. Pressure drop, both internally

through the core, and aerodynamically, are less than the stock cores,

making for a very efficient unit.

 

Pics of the intercooler are now available at:

 

http://www.formula3.freeserve.co.uk/intercooler/intercooler.zip

 

or

 

http://www.formula3.freeserve.co.uk/intercooler/intercooler.html

 

They will sell for 580 pounds, there is no VAT to pay.

 

Postage and packing to UK mainland addresses is 12.50, the package is

bulky due to their fragile nature.

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The Chris Wilson intercooler looks very good but is nearly twice the price of the Radtec. How can the Radtec be so cheap?

Maybe it's the Chris Wilson one that is expensive!:)

 

I think it's difficult to draw comparisons as there are very few side mounted intercoolers available.

 

I'm sure the Radtec SMIC will be equally as good as the Chris Wilson one.

 

Radtec appear to have a very good reputation:

 

Radtec is a well-known name throughout all forms of motor-sport, we have been supplying the industry for over eighteen years. Our aluminium radiator & intercooler range has been tested in extreme climate & race conditions time after time, and thanks to a company policy of continuous research and development the performance of our products has reached a level that we feel is without equal anywhere in the world.:)
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I'll post some high resolution pics of my IC on my website this week, and you can compare build quality, count the tubes, assess fin density, blah blah. But as I have always said I am unwilling to fund proper testing as it's just prohibitively expensive, I was quoted over 1k for certified flow V temp drops figures, per IC, so double that to compare any 2 IC's...I just don't sell enough to justify that sort of expenditure. Mine is a lot more expensive, the same company wanted nearly double the price radtec were quoting me for aftermarket all ali water rads, but the dear ones were very different to the cheaper ones. Size isn't everything, IMO ;) Nor is cost!

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