What Lurkes Inside Your Factory Intercooler

[lachlanw]

this is the factory intercooler off my rs four s . 120000 kays on it . curiosity got the better on me . and i wanted to clean it real good

someone might find it interesting

[KiwiRS4T]

At the very least you should consider flushing it out with a mixture of kero and meths and per SK's instructions:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/R3...age-t69501.html

[RBPOWA-(TJ)]

At the very least you should consider flushing it out with a mixture of kero and meths and per SK's instructions:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/R3...age-t69501.html

did that on three coolers works great

[DaveB]

Cool. So are the end "tanks" just glued on or something?

[lachlanw]

yeah but i wanted to pull it apart ....

the end tanks are held on by all the "tags" you can see around the end of the the core . there is an o ring and all the tabs bend over a lip on the end tank . the tags are still in place on one side of both ends with the other 3 sides bent back . same as a radiator with plastic end tanks

ps my car has had a front mount on it for about a year . this is my door stop even tho there is nothing wrong with it

Edited December 27, 2009 by lachlanw

[fat-lad]

when i was replacing the motor in our s1 i sent the intercooler off to be cleaned with the radiator, there were peices of metal in mine, along with about 200ml's of thick black goopy oil, glad i done it!!

we later found out it had a second hand turbo on it about 3 months before we brought it, so i wonder it if it was turbo bits in there,

[bbe]

wow what a suprise NOT, what did you think would be in their lmao

[pyro-ns]

when i was replacing the motor in our s1 i sent the intercooler off to be cleaned with the radiator, there were peices of metal in mine, along with about 200ml's of thick black goopy oil, glad i done it!!

we later found out it had a second hand turbo on it about 3 months before we brought it, so i wonder it if it was turbo bits in there,

i think the girl's has the same thing. when we did the fmic, we would have got about 15ml of thick black oil out of the old smic (as in, 15ml dripped out of it, that's not counting the shit that's still inside there). will be interested to see what the fmic is like in a month or two.

Edited January 18, 2010 by pyro-ns

[lachlanw]

wow what a suprise NOT, what did you think would be in their lmao

god and i thought i posted some retarded un needed posts

my fmic is like brand new inside . fitted greddy catch can at same time . after a year i opened the catch can and there was not even enough oil film to make a drip .