Nialls supercharged GTi6 - project tidy up

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Will blag a passenger run if you've got any left lol, still haven't had a proper ride in this.

My mate posted me a link of "mighty car mods" on YouTube where they fully tested to see if a black painted intercooler makes any difference at all or if it makes it worse or better.

Have a look on YouTube, they found that while air is flowing through it there's virtually no difference but when stationary at idle the heat soak temps were less than halved in comparison.

I see your peugeot tech status has given you a fantastic grounding in solid engineering knowledge. Have a look in the couch for a thread on that, you might even learn something.

I see your keyboard has given you warrior abilities!

Lmao, I simply stated it radiates heat better when stationary an doesn't affect its convection massively when moving.

Biggest problem with mine last year particularly during the summer was heat soak. Really made the car bog down once it had been stationary for any length of time.

More radiation from cooler = less heat soak however if his is mainly when driving then he either needs a larger cooler or an enclosed air filter (or both) as I said before.

Now have a massive cooler ( probably too big) and the difference is huge.

And it's also painted satin black but was when I got it. Can't really remove it from every part of it so topped it up. Still works beautifully well no matter how hard I drive so as I said the paint has a negligible effect on it when driving.....

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Funnily enough I was talking to Stef last night about that mighty car mods video and whilst I can see logic in what they are saying, I can't see a huge difference. My intercooler is painted silver because I'm a tart but I'm tempted to buy a new one just to see how much truth is in what they are saying.
I also think I'm getting quite a bit of extra heat from the charger anyway as although it's still boosting fine, it's really not in a great condition so I need to do something about that. The Mini M45s are a completely different design body but the rotors are the same size and fitment as mine being the same displacement. Difference is though my charger is gen1 and the mini ones are gen3 so improved rotor design and better coatings so I'm hoping to get a mini charger and sort of build a hybrid if you like. I also think this could be one reason why Stef is seeing only 25 degrees temps. Either that or his air temp sensor isn't calibrated at all and his is just as bad as mine

Yup have to agree I did the same thing when I got my original cooler, wanted it on show behind the bumper grille and so painted it silver .

I'd just be going for a larger cooler to be honest mate. The dirt wrench mine has made with 2.5" pipes and twice the size cooler on the same PSI of boost it's well worth it.

Wasn't suggesting you run outside and spray everything that gets hot black in an instant lol.

Can't say I know to much about screw chargers to be honest.