Sam_
Down under
They're pretty much the only ones on the market I'm aware of. Are you going to mount the joints in parallel?
Kinda like this:
Kinda like this:
How come the S4's were a big mistake?
pft the Rota`s are better than heavy silly Audi wheel
Well you've inspired me. I've bought a AGU engine to re build if it's in good condition. I may need to pick your brains on what parts to buy for it!
any make of pistons to avoid?
how come i dont see many of you guys running uprated cooling systems (Oil / water) those of you with 100% increase in power levels have gotta be producing increased heat levels?
Mocal 16 row oil cooler, 80degree stat built into the sandwich plate, all hose and fittings, and a 7 row PSF cooler, all for �140 brand new
Got the cooler mounted:
Vent holes cut in the arch liner for air flow, and meshed to protect it:
Made up a simple lower bracket in stainless to hold the cooler rigid:
Then got the mounting finished and bolted up:
Did a tiny bit more tonight;
Got the sandwich plate mounted and the filter back on, which gave me a chance to measure up for the hoses I need.
Cut them to length, then pressed the fittings into the hose with the aid of some boilling water and a firm grip:
These are apparently a mocal 'no clips' fitting. You just heat the hose in boilling water, then press it on with great force. The supplier did say that many people clamp them as a secondary measure too, so I decided to be safe rather than sorry.
Cheers dude
Depending on your power goals, stock pistons are absolutely fine. Many people still run stock pistons at 450bhp.
Don't go low compression whatever you do, if you've got an S3, i'd say a set of AGU 9.5:1 CR pistons would be preferable.
Cooling wise, I run a 16 row mocal oil cooler to keep the oil cool, and I fitted a brand new standard rad when the new engine went in, but otherwise, it's absolutely fine!
I'm fairly sure Tuffty and welly both ran standard cooling systems at 400bhp+ as well! The stock system seems very over engineered.
Just found out that you can do a 'one hit wonder' one off entry into time attack series, and the car is already 100% compliant to the club class regs........
hmmmmmmmmmm
maybe one day
Ahhh, now I get it. That's a sizable unit. Too big for placement behind the intercooler? Or is this just a more efficient location?Sure Doug, it's a 16 row mocal oil cooler core, with the mocal press fit clipless fittings and an 80 degree mocal thermostatic sandwich plate.
Just looked back through the thread and found these bits of info from the install:
Just found out that you can do a 'one hit wonder' one off entry into time attack series, and the car is already 100% compliant to the club class regs........
hmmmmmmmmmm
maybe one day
There was some 034 ones on eBay from a UK seller.Time attack sounds fun. Where did you get you solid sub frame bushes from as I'm thinking of fitting some when I fit my front ARB? Glad you had a good Christmas. I'm hoping to go to the RR day on Saturday it'll be good to have a look at your car then.