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guys

has anyone fitted the AVO cooler and plumbing to their T ???

would like to hear yr thoughts.... good and bad, am contemplating whacking one on my ute and would like a heads up...

a bit of educated input, and not someone saying " they're crap", unless they have experience to explain why they are crap...or grouse!!!

at moment for me its a tossup between the AVO job and an ASE...

not chasing over 350 rwkw...

thanks heaps

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Fitted mine today mate, well have pics up tomorrow hopefully. The install wasnt to diffucult, nothing u cant fix pretty quickly with a 4"grinder. Only driven the car a little bit after we fitted it but first imressions seem that it is coming on bosst earlier and throttle respsonse is through the rooof. The actual quality of the it is pretty good and everything u need is supplied. Instructions do leave a little bit to be desired though.

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I wasin on gav's install, like he said, not too difficult, make sure you have a die grinder, you have to grind out the section under the battery mount, where the factory aluminium tube runs, due to the avo pipe being a larger diameter, only other structural mod is the from support behind the bumper, again, use the 4" grinder once you have marked out the areas you need to cut, then use the die grinder to finish it off.

cheers

Mic

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I wasin on gav's install, like he said, not too difficult, make sure you have a die grinder, you have to grind out the section under the battery mount, where the factory aluminium tube runs, due to the avo pipe being a larger diameter, only other structural mod is the from support behind the bumper, again, use the 4" grinder once you have marked out the areas you need to cut, then use the die grinder to finish it off.

cheers

Mic

another quality "Direct Replacement" cooler I see....

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I can highly recommend the ASE cooler. Fantastic core and quality. Aussie product. Can be fitted without grinding if you don't follow the instructions, and drill some new holes. Not hard at all.

AVO have a great rep in the industry as far as I can tell.

AVO cooler sounds like a bit of work to fit?

If you're going to go to that sort of trouble, I'd suggest doing the whole plumbing at the same time. Go to the effort of shortening the intake. It's well worth it.

The AVO cooler lends itself to a custom plumbing project. The outlet is in a prime location.

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no experience with that cooler but if your looking for a DIRECT bolt in replacement the wog cooler will do the trick (monza cooler)... and to top it off it is capapble of supprting above 350 rwkw... raphoon runs 355 rwkw through his :censored: I have had one for 2 years now and its still going great guns.

I personally would not grind my car for the sake of a cooler... how does structual grinding go down with the insurance company??

If your looking for custom piping etc etc and dont mind a bit of grinding... the AVO cooler sounds great!!! it certainly looks great and has had good reports on it.

good luck which ever way you go... theres heaps of choices now :finger:

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no experience with that cooler but if your looking for a DIRECT bolt in replacement the wog cooler will do the trick (monza cooler)...  and to top it off it is capapble of supprting above 350 rwkw... raphoon runs 355 rwkw through his :tease: I have had one for 2 years now and its still going great guns.

I personally would not grind my car for the sake of a cooler... how does structual grinding go down with the insurance company??

If your looking for custom piping etc etc and dont mind a bit of grinding... the AVO cooler sounds great!!! it certainly looks great and has had good reports on it.

good luck which ever way you go... theres heaps of choices now :roflmbo:

You can run anything through anything and get an increase in power. A mate of mine has a 9psi vortech blower on a 95 EF XR8. Car is stock as a rock and went from 127rwkw to 191rwkw. Does this mean that his HO manifold, 55mm MAF, E7 heads and standard cast exhaust manifolds were not restricting his power just because he could run a certain number higher than factory?

I'm not having a go at you here, but I've seen and read about people running 330rwkw+ through a stock XR6T exhaust with only mod being a cat. People automatically then assume that the exhaust is not restrictive. Sure it's a great exhaust from factory, but replace said 330rwkw vehicle with factory exhaust to a quality brand unit (APS, Nizpro ect) and watch the power rise with less stress on the engine by pushing the same amount of gasses through larger diamater pipes.

The same theroy applies with intercoolers. Just because the monza cooler is fitted to a car making a high level of power, doesn't mean that the cooler is not out of it's efficient operating range. I'd be betting at 350rwkw, if you just changed the cooler alone to a larger quality brand unit, you would see a massive gain. At that power you wouldn't get any lag associated with larger coolers either.

Now I'm not having a go at the Monza cooler as I think it's a good value budget replacement cooler. I would just be worried about compromising my engines longevity running high boost levels with a cooler that is out of it's optimal operating capicity just to save a few 100 bucks.

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Why did the Monza cooler even come into the discussion in the first place??? The bloke asked about the AVO and ASE products, nothing else.

I'm sick of Wog stooges jumping into every thread with their wogcooler crap. If no one asks about it, don't mention the damn thing.

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Why did the Monza cooler even come into the discussion in the first place??? The bloke asked about the AVO and ASE products, nothing else.

I'm sick of Wog stooges jumping into every thread with their wogcooler crap. If no one asks about it, don't mention the damn thing.

I dont give a fark if your sick of them or not.... am allowed to have my say simple as that... just as your allowed to have your say... He did say at the moment... which means he has not made up his mind yet!! just threw another alternative up

love,

wog stooge :tease:

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no experience with that cooler but if your looking for a DIRECT bolt in replacement the wog cooler will do the trick (monza cooler)...  and to top it off it is capapble of supprting above 350 rwkw... raphoon runs 355 rwkw through his :tease: I have had one for 2 years now and its still going great guns.

I personally would not grind my car for the sake of a cooler... how does structual grinding go down with the insurance company??

If your looking for custom piping etc etc and dont mind a bit of grinding... the AVO cooler sounds great!!! it certainly looks great and has had good reports on it.

good luck which ever way you go... theres heaps of choices now :roflmbo:

You can run anything through anything and get an increase in power. A mate of mine has a 9psi vortech blower on a 95 EF XR8. Car is stock as a rock and went from 127rwkw to 191rwkw. Does this mean that his HO manifold, 55mm MAF, E7 heads and standard cast exhaust manifolds were not restricting his power just because he could run a certain number higher than factory?

I'm not having a go at you here, but I've seen and read about people running 330rwkw+ through a stock XR6T exhaust with only mod being a cat. People automatically then assume that the exhaust is not restrictive. Sure it's a great exhaust from factory, but replace said 330rwkw vehicle with factory exhaust to a quality brand unit (APS, Nizpro ect) and watch the power rise with less stress on the engine by pushing the same amount of gasses through larger diamater pipes.

The same theroy applies with intercoolers. Just because the monza cooler is fitted to a car making a high level of power, doesn't mean that the cooler is not out of it's efficient operating range. I'd be betting at 350rwkw, if you just changed the cooler alone to a larger quality brand unit, you would see a massive gain. At that power you wouldn't get any lag associated with larger coolers either.

Now I'm not having a go at the Monza cooler as I think it's a good value budget replacement cooler. I would just be worried about compromising my engines longevity running high boost levels with a cooler that is out of it's optimal operating capicity just to save a few 100 bucks.

out of its optimal operating capacity?? show me how??

oh yeah.. aps exhausts... not all they were cracked up to be either :spoton:

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