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 richbaker78
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| posted on April 21st, 2006 at 07:48 PM |
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WRX bus cooling - progress.
hi guys- its been a while since I posted on here - progress has been steady but slow on the bus - ive decided on my cooling option after much
procrastination - its going to be a skeleton number plate diguised front vent running acrros the cab floor into the top of the rad flat mounted
underneath - ive removed and strengthened the front x-memeber so the rad can me mounted higher for ground clearance. This airflow will be supplemented
with another underscoop......i dont have much luck putting piccies on here so heres a link to a UK forum with it all on. Id be interested to hear
your thoughts.
http://www.vwkd.co.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=132
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 helbus
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| posted on April 21st, 2006 at 08:20 PM |
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That's pretty impressive work, and some lateral thinking too.
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richbaker78
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| posted on April 21st, 2006 at 11:46 PM |
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thanks very much - cant take all the credit Ricola gave me the idea.
I know lots of people have succesfully run under rads in much warmer climes but I couldnt convince myself becasue of all the extra gubbins up front. I
really felt there was some restictions to flow by going underneath - like brake servo, front beam etc - fortunatly I had already moved the handbrake
for the porsche single cable set up adn because im playing in unknown territory i didnt want something i couldnt modify at a later stage / that was
irreversibly a bad idea!! im hoping the ram air effect will give me a combination of good cooling and ground clearance. If not i have plenty of
potential to add more front mounted ducts under the bumper and into the air box. Ill continue to add pics as I progress!!
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ricola
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| posted on April 22nd, 2006 at 06:09 AM |
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That's right Rich, blame me in case it doesn't work!
Rich
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baybuscamperkid
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| posted on April 23rd, 2006 at 03:59 PM |
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fascinating. good use of wasted space.
Reimagined/Recycled/Upcycled Cool
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