Stazza_Brendan Donating Members 686 Member For: 15y 4m 9d Gender: Male Location: Mackay QLD Posted 23/01/10 02:27 PM Share Posted 23/01/10 02:27 PM I bought this cooler kit off the net (not sure if I can post the site up) just before christmas on special. $580 delivered.Come with all the alloy piping, silicone joins, t-clamps, brackets as well as some useless instructions. As the place was closed over christmas I had to wait till they reopened in the new year to receive it. No big worry as I didnt pick the car up till new years day Stock xr6 compared to new cooler size, new cooler is 630x300x76 from memory.This is the basic setup of how it fits in the car. The extra pipe on the ground runs from the Under Battery pipe up to the cross-over. Factory crossover and under battery pipe are retained. None of the factory rubber hoses are used. Which is one of the reasons I bought this kit.To fit the cooler on my BF2 ute I had to bend one of the aircon pipes out of the way and trim a peice out of the bottom of the thermo fans. Also the horns had to be relocated. I drilled a hole in the corner of the factory horn bracket and attached it to the passenger side headlight bolt. Ideally id like to drill holes in the top intercooler bracket and attach them there.Only other mods to my ute so far is typhoon lower airbox with snorkel, a replacement panel filter and factory bov removed. Still on stock tune and exhaust. Car makes great flutter noise now as well it seems more responsive and will be going to a dyno on Monday to see what the AFR's are like and also a power run. I havnt driven the car hard yet. Better safe then sorry. Ill post results then.To give the engine bay a more stock appearance ill be painting the UB pipe to crossover pipe with VHT wrinkle paint. VHT Wrinkle Plus™ Coatingshopefully this will make the pipe look like the standard crossover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWIK F6 Donating Members 526 Member For: 15y 10m 27d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 23/01/10 09:47 PM Share Posted 23/01/10 09:47 PM Looks good mate....Any pics of the intercooler without the front bar on.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravenhard Donating Members 1,517 Member For: 16y 11m 17d Gender: Male Location: Blacktown! Posted 23/01/10 09:57 PM Share Posted 23/01/10 09:57 PM its an interesting way to do the hot side piping. Taking it from one side of the engine bay to the other. Also interesting that they do it as alot of people dont even bother to do the hotside as it isnt a major restriction but then they retain the factory under battery pipe, which is usually the first thing people do as a simple mod as it is a big restriction in the factory system along with the equally restricive crossover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExAreSix TRAITOR Member 1,063 Member For: 22y 4m 1d Gender: Male Location: Townsville, NQ Posted 23/01/10 10:07 PM Share Posted 23/01/10 10:07 PM It's done like that to provide the optimum inter cooler design. In/Out on opposite corners of the core.This is how Hybrid (now Saber) have been doing it for the last 4 yrs or so on the XR6T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stazza_Brendan Donating Members 686 Member For: 15y 4m 9d Gender: Male Location: Mackay QLD Posted 24/01/10 01:08 AM Author Share Posted 24/01/10 01:08 AM (edited) Ive seen 330rwkw on this forum still using the stock crossover so it cant be that bad. When I got for the next round of mods (exhaust, injectors, tuner) ill be putting in one of Rapids Under Battery pipes. All im aiming for is up to 300kw, which I think this cooler kit will be good for.My thoughts are , if you want 300+ go for a higher end kit. But if your happy with around 300kw something cheaper like this should be fine.Ive only got 1 pic of the car without the bumper on and cooler mounted, but its poor quality. However there is another thread with more install pics.http://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/Just-Installed-The-Hybrid-Ic-t26122.html Edited 24/01/10 01:11 AM by Stazza_Brendan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stazza_Brendan Donating Members 686 Member For: 15y 4m 9d Gender: Male Location: Mackay QLD Posted 25/01/10 05:24 AM Author Share Posted 25/01/10 05:24 AM Went on the dyno today.No boost spikes, doesnt run lean. 184rwkw on 4psi (mainline dyno). Power only dropped 2kw after 4 back to back pulls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtRmn8 570Nm @1800rpm Donating Members 2,441 Member For: 21y 4m 29d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 25/01/10 05:43 AM Share Posted 25/01/10 05:43 AM 4psi? You might have a boost leak somewhere. Peak boost should be closer to 6psi and with a more efficient cooler you should be over 200rwkw.But it could be they dyno. Did you do before run on the same dyno to compare? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xr6t_ute Donating Members 2,281 Member For: 17y 7m 26d Gender: Male Location: south east suburbs Posted 25/01/10 05:48 AM Share Posted 25/01/10 05:48 AM (edited) Ive seen 330rwkw on this forum still using the stock crossover so it cant be that bad. When I got for the next round of mods (exhaust, injectors, tuner) ill be putting in one of Rapids Under Battery pipes. All im aiming for is up to 300kw, which I think this cooler kit will be good for.My thoughts are , if you want 300+ go for a higher end kit. But if your happy with around 300kw something cheaper like this should be fine.Ive only got 1 pic of the car without the bumper on and cooler mounted, but its poor quality. However there is another thread with more install pics.http://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/Just-Installed-The-Hybrid-Ic-t26122.htmlI've had 355rwkw with the stock crossover on the dyno, and that was going through a convertor as well, never ran it down the strip, too worried id run out of fuel as the injectors were maxed out as it is and running a bit lean. Edited 25/01/10 05:49 AM by xr6t_ute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stazza_Brendan Donating Members 686 Member For: 15y 4m 9d Gender: Male Location: Mackay QLD Posted 25/01/10 06:10 AM Author Share Posted 25/01/10 06:10 AM (edited) 4psi? You might have a boost leak somewhere. Peak boost should be closer to 6psi and with a more efficient cooler you should be over 200rwkw.But it could be they dyno. Did you do before run on the same dyno to compare?Unfortunatly didnt do a before and after. It has been quite humid here lately and I dont know where the guy took the boost pressure from. This was with the Auto in 4th gear (6speed ZF) , a run with it in 3rd pushed power to 196kw. Seat of the pants dyno says its a tiny bit quicker.I dont think theres a boost leak as I checked the clamps over and over before driving it after the cooler install, but ill go over it again to be sure.What about the A/C , I dont think it was turned off for the runs (I wasnt in the dyno cell). AC was on when I got there, and on when I left? Edited 25/01/10 06:14 AM by Stazza_Brendan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDI-XR6 Member 58 Member For: 16y 2m 18d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Seven hills Posted 25/01/10 06:21 AM Share Posted 25/01/10 06:21 AM It's done like that to provide the optimum inter cooler design. In/Out on opposite corners of the core.This is how Hybrid (now Saber) have been doing it for the last 4 yrs or so on the XR6TJust need to point out Saber has no association with Hybrid or Hybrid Development International (HDi). Hybrid have not changed its name and has been running in Australia since 1994 . At Hybrid we have not used that piping design for about 4 years, it was replaced with a new more efficient design (as pictured). The new design was installed on the same car (as in the above mentioned link) and had a significant improvement from back to back comparisons. Just wanted to dispel any intercooler design confusion and association. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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