Sport bonnet, yay or nay for Turbo?????
11 August 2001, 11:24 PM
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Advice apprecited on the following:
I am having a bigger Turbo and FMIC fitted and have been told about pressure problems, would it help if I fitted a Sport bonnet or would this not help the engine from cooling, not a bit but a lot in the dark about this one. Also I don't really want to say good bye to my scoop. I supose I will get more folk trying to race me thinking I am a sport not a Turbo.
Many thanks to everyones efforts to help in advance.
Moe
I am having a bigger Turbo and FMIC fitted and have been told about pressure problems, would it help if I fitted a Sport bonnet or would this not help the engine from cooling, not a bit but a lot in the dark about this one. Also I don't really want to say good bye to my scoop. I supose I will get more folk trying to race me thinking I am a sport not a Turbo.
Many thanks to everyones efforts to help in advance.
Moe
12 August 2001, 01:17 AM
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I could be very wrong, but I think you'd get cooling problems. Also, doesn't the intercooler draw air in from the scoop?
As for people wanting to race; Turbos don't seem to put them off, no matter what they're driving...
As for people wanting to race; Turbos don't seem to put them off, no matter what they're driving...
12 August 2001, 01:25 AM
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Moe, take a look at the underside of your bonnet. There are vents to the left of the intercooler rubber seals. They are directly above the turbo...
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12 August 2001, 10:10 AM
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Erm given that FMIC stands for front mounted intercooler, and also given that the scoop provides airflow over the standard intercooler, I can't see why you should have a problem. The Impreza Sport requires the same amount of engine cooling, it doesn't have a different rad or anything. After all it has the same engine and running gear.
Cooling the air in the intercooler, as you know, does not have a lot to do with controlling the engine temp, rather to do with pumping more dense air into the cylinders.
A number of tecchie minded folks on here consider an oil cooler a useful (some say vital) addition to the car. You might want to consider one, but with a FMIC I dunno where you'd put it!
Looking like a Sport, going like a turbo, how cool is that!!!?
Cooling the air in the intercooler, as you know, does not have a lot to do with controlling the engine temp, rather to do with pumping more dense air into the cylinders.
A number of tecchie minded folks on here consider an oil cooler a useful (some say vital) addition to the car. You might want to consider one, but with a FMIC I dunno where you'd put it!
Looking like a Sport, going like a turbo, how cool is that!!!?
12 August 2001, 10:46 AM
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In Japan, I have seen people put the oil cooler rads in the space vacated by the original intercooler.....the scoop then provides cool air to the oil cooler!!
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Adam,
If I had a sport one of things I would do is get a well sorted suspension like Leda,
You would be surprised, asuming you havent got that far yet.
Sith looks like I will just have to look at 3 bulges when I'm driving;-)
Moe
If I had a sport one of things I would do is get a well sorted suspension like Leda,
You would be surprised, asuming you havent got that far yet.
Sith looks like I will just have to look at 3 bulges when I'm driving;-)
Moe
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