Think im gonna suck it and see for now. Youre right Neil, black is the most thermally efficient, however looking at the size of it. I dont think im gonna have any cooling issues some how lol.

Can always whip it off and paint it later if i dont like it.

 

Bumper in the paintshop... Check,
New graphics ordered... Check,
New towing eye ordered... Check,

Just gotta get it plumbed in and fit all new induction kit and we'll be well away

 

Looking forward to August

 

Best get plumbing then Frayz

 

Plumbing in tonight hopefully.

Still undecided if August will be 2ltr or 2.5.

Either way, we'll have a great laugh as usual Fozzie

 

remember the pics

 

Been a busy boy tonight and plumbed in the cooler and fitted a new 70mm APS cold air intake.

Just a few relocations left to do, refit my ACT sensor and my Clifford siren needs a new home.
Need to make a black for the DV take off too.

Sorry for the crap phone pics but at least you can see my progress.

 

That looks wicked

 

Just hope it works as good as it looks.

 

Hey Frayz, car really coming on now & looking great
Would you need to have a remap with that extra cooling ?
Just wondered

 

Car will be mapped again anyway as my MAF scaling will now be out due to an intake change,

I fitted a new APS 70mm intake tonight too. Smaller than my current one but allows me to fit the cooler.

 

Looks good Frayz

Out of interest, could you let me know the average air charge temp is please?

The reason I ask is so that it can be used as a reference point as to how efficient/ineffiecient the Autobahn 88 FMIC's actually are.

I plan to put an ACT in my scoob soon, so the results could be interesting.

 

Will let you know exactly how well it performs mate.

 

Looks sweet mate!

Looks like the pipes fit really well.

 

nice piece of kit mate. bit bling though in the chrome finish. powder coat it black?

 

Its polished stainless mate, painting em black they will only absorb any under bonnet heat even more. The one over the turbo will be wrapped or coated anyway.

Yeah Fozz, the pipes fit perfectly. Almost factory finish!

 

oooh polished stainless. no chipping of the chrome plating as per some other pipework sets in fmic. so how comes painting the ic black will help heat and painting the pipes black won't

georgem knows of a place that's fairly cheap for ceramic coating. will save changing the wrap every year.

 

Somewhere along the lines of the I/C is in the cooler air as the pipes are in the hot engine bay.

 

Easiest way to understand it Matt is that all colours absorb or reflect heat.

The black works better on the cooler as it absorbs more of the heated charge within it. Thus more heat is disipated to the cooling fins which in turn is transfered to the passing air.

Same thing happens in the engine bay only this time the black pipes are absorbing radiated heat. So better to have reflective pipes than black.

I hope that makes sense

 

cheers guys

 

My ACT sensor was tapped into my old cooler.. i needed to tap the cold side of my pipework.

So i made a stainless boss and tig welded it on to house the sensor. This in about 1" before the throttle body on the underside of the pipework, shame you wont see it really as i think it looks pretty sweet

 

Just wondering are they normal steel clips holding the hoses on or are they some super duper ones you've found

 

Just high quality worm drive stainless jobbies mate. Will probably swap em out for some Mikalors though mate.

 

Took some better pics tonight.

 

sweet

 

Going to pick up the new bumper graphics today, only the bumper and towing eye left to come back and fit now

 

Got to admit that reading this thread is giving me the encouragement to work on my own car!! Some very good ideas!

Nice one Frayz

 

then you just need to get the paint looking as wet as fozzy's mate

 

Cant do it with all the poxy graphics on it mate.

Speaking of graphics, i picked up some new ones today, and a few slight tiny alterations to the rest of the cars graphics

 

if they were solid colour it wouldn't be too much of a problem but as they're printed, it wouldn't be the best idea.

got some pukka new kit though that will aid in the wet look without the need for polishing

are you going to spill the beans or do we have to wait and see?