Front Mount Intercooler

[banksy21]

yes it fits perfect

 

[Dan FR]

Mine is on what a ball ache that was. My old coupler from the Golf fits perfectly. Guys with the type E, I'm guessing you reused the seal from the boost pipe you removed... did it fit nicely? I tried the o ring from the S pipe I removed and it wasn't a nice fit on the coupler at all (too big) so used the one from my Golf and it's perfect.

 

[banksy21]

mines on. would of done it sooner but fitted the dreaded Rs4 valve as well.

yea i used the rubber seal from the oe pipe was a good fit.

 

[banksy21]

its way bigger than the s3 cooler i had on previous.
the S3 intercooler measured 39.23mm i thought it was suppose to be 45mm?

anyway this one measured 59.48mm.

 

[Dan FR]

Yeah its massive. I had to trim a fair bit of plastic all around to move the rad pack forward enough until until I was happy with the clearance for the fans. Very tight fit. Found the Apr fitting guide very useful too, handy to refer to

Can't wait to start logging, hopefully tomorrow night

 

[banksy21]

been out tonight and it feels alot better than the small S3 intercooler.

 

[Joshkcupra]

So the type E coupling is no good?

 

[banksy21]

the E type was fine on mine.

 

[Joshkcupra]

Does the TDI have a different outlet size to the Cupra?

 

[Dan FR]

I think it might be slightly different but it's still a perfect fit, absolutely solid with no play at all. The original seal would have worked ok but was ever so slightly too large for the tdi coupling I'm using.

If the CM one fits with the original seal then go for that. Cheap and easy resolution (in the end )

 

[porksword28]

Nice to see you've all manage to sort it! Be interesting to get some figures to see how well it works! Anyone planning this?

 

[Dan FR]

Took mine for a blast this morning on the way to go karting and it's definitely a big improvement and IATS are definitely lower. Only checked through Torque app, plan to do some logging shortly. RR would be good, might take it back to the RR I went to a few months back for another run at some point

 

[DGF264]

Hoping to fit my type E and Josh's S bend pipe today..as I mangled my metal boost pipe a bit trying to 'whack' the china coupling in..I hope I haven't damaged it to the point where it's out of shape and just blows this type E coupling out..like it did the other day (it popped out the standard pipe on boost)

 

[banksy21]

DFG264 put a little smug of gasket seal in the metal pipe to make a good seal for the E type coupler.

 

[WeeG]

I was logging yesterday with the Revo stasis euro jet cooler with AC delete and 50/50 meth set up. Ambient temp was 16.5 degrees, on a 4th gear WOT run from 2000 rpm to red line IAT's were just 10 degrees! 6.5 below ambient

 

[DGF264]

Cheers Ben.. I was thinking of chemical metal lol..all round the outside to fix it in almost permanently

 

[banksy21]

NOOOOO dont put chemical metal in or around no pipes haha if it gets sucked in say bye bye to your engine.

 

[DGF264]

Lol ok! Well.. S bend pipe from Josh (which he got from darkside) appeared a little too big..so I've cut it down, a little at a time. Guess what.....

It's now no good as it's not long enough to go over cooler & coupler!! So I'm back to bloody square one!! had to re fit my bodged pipe again!!

Messaged china seller asking how much for just an S bend pipe. I know I've fu***d up and am a **** for shortening the pipe. So I don't need anyone else telling me lol

 

[Joshkcupra]

why, oh why

 

[DGF264]

What did I just say lol..

I know. I'm at work. Rushing to fit it, conscious time was pressing on..so...

Nevermind.