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Anyone suggest the best way to upgrade the DR30 intercooler?

Should I just fit a new frontmount or is there an upgrade available to replace the std intercooler with a better one while retaining the std position in front of the left wheel?

I'd prefer to keep the std look and avoid too much cutting but not at the expense of efficiency

Cheers

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No upgrade as such, but R33 standard intercooler is good for about 300hp.

If you look at the pics on the now, my track car thread, the intercooler on that had the air con still intact & all that was lost was the headlight washer pump.

Cheers, D

The inlet is on the bottom, that's why it's hard to see. I'm going to put it in the PNV and use a crossflow too.

I recently bought a Delta Fin Intercooler, they are lighter & flow better than conventional bar and plate construction. The one I bought is big, 600 x 300 x 78 & flows 1020cfm with a 0.2psi drop @ 20psi boost & good for up to 900HP. But that is for the track car.

600 x 300 x 76/8 isn't necessary for a street car, it's an over kill if anything.

Cheers, D

My mate here has gone the smaller of the 2 china cores available fits in pretty nice and snuggly in between the headlights with minimal chopping

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Where I have gone the larger, which to get to fit was a bit of a bitch. Welded 90 degree bends on the ends to get it in a little tighter with a bit more chopping necessary. To tell ya the truth I really should have just gone with the smaller option as performance gains would be minimal in comparison.

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The ebay kit is the large version. It's 600 x 300 x 76 (24" x 12" x 3" old school) I think what Josh is talking about is approx a 400mm core length, but I'm amused as to why both are mounted with the inlet & exhaust at the top instead of the bottom where a large majority of the space needed to fit them is under the headlights on an Iron Mask front.

Cheers, D

Got my car back from the panel shop finally and was checking intercooler space.

Not too keen to cut the hell out of the centre support so may look at a 600x150 intercooler mtd low down in the airstream.

Seems to me only the lower half of a 600x300 would work in a street car anyway

i had a chinese coooler on mine 600x300x75. worked fine. never sat well with me i have since gone 32 gtr cooler, the end tanks curve perfectly around the rails, i had to move battery to boot and make a few holes... but hey, its not chinese junk and does the job damn well

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i had a chinese coooler on mine 600x300x75. worked fine. never sat well with me i have since gone 32 gtr cooler, the end tanks curve perfectly around the rails, i had to move battery to boot and make a few holes... but hey, its not chinese junk and does the job damn well

Any pics mate? I have GT-R cooler, just need piping..

Another option is a Water-to-Air IC. I'm using a PWR core in place of the OEM x-over pipe (my car is an '83 RS-X so it was non-intercooled).

I've just upgraded my pump to use a Bosch unit, and am using the air-con condenser as the heat exchanger. The next step is to fit a reservoir of about 5L to increase the capacity of heat-sinking that the system can cope with.

I'd post photos, but it's all apart right now with the pump upgrade and reservoir installation...

Any pics mate? I have GT-R cooler, just need piping..

ill c wat i can do, most of it is hidden by the lip n bar, but if it helps..

another thing the origanal gtr mounts were no good 4 dr so i grounded them down and made my own to go on the top and bottom tanks

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