water cooled intercooler

[camoturd]

Is it possible to fit a water cooled intercooler to a phase 3 hdi and if so has anyone done it

[Poodle]

It is possible, but it's a lot of work over a normal fmic. I don't know of anyone thats done it to a 306, but uberderv wad originally going to use a chargecooler on his 205, its in the project section.

[darrenjlobb]

Big dave and andyxxx used to run chargecooled xud 306s on club 306....

[Niall]

There's a guy on the. 205 forum who runs a jag charge cooler. Don't think it was all that tbh.

[Uberderv]

I used one on my old 206 as well, was very effective. Its a fair bit more expensive than air/air intercooling it if you do it properly.

[Daniel306]

My 205 Gti had one, the receipt says it was £1000 fitted and it was crap, i removed it and put in on my 306 xud, it was still crap

[jammapic]

Charge coolers are ok, but not the be all and end all.

I'm looking at actually REMOVING the charge cooler from my Jag and fitting it with a normal style FMIC, as the inlet temps creep up even with stock boost...

JP

[pro_steve]

It's a lot of work for not a great deal of extra benefit really, unless you're going to fill it with ice and do short drag runs.
My brother has got two that we planned to put on, one that is massive and we can't find anywhere to fit it, and another that is small and then it still requires the water radiator and pump and pipe work, so we've decided just to use an intercooler as ultimately there's less to go wrong.

What I do like about charger coolers is the reduced pipe work so it shouldn't have much of an effect on lag.

If you do decided to go with one, get in touch, I've got two, the bosch water pump and a suitable radiator which I probably won't use, all brand new....