Intercooler Again

When I drove the car the other day I heard a rubbing noise when the car was on full lock. I had a quick look and couldn’t see anything so planned to have a proper look around later. I was thinking about it the other day and decided it was probably the intercooler plumbing. When I had a look at it I found some rub marks on them and the wheels now just touched it on full lock. When I did this initially the car must have needed to settle as I checked it at full lock. I pulled all the tubing out and started again from scratch. With a cut down aluminium 90 instead of the rubber elbow I got a tighter run that cleared the wheel on lock. BlowerRePlumbed.jpg While I had it all in bits I decided to re-mount the intercooler so I could get a few more inches of clearance. It was mounted tight against the core support bracket so my only option was to cut off the rest of the front panel support and have it at a shallower angle. The front of the intercooler was mounted on a short tab from the front panel, and I wasn’t convinced a longer one wouldn’t sag. I decided to make a tab from a piece of steel bar to mount it to the bumper bracket. My newish pillar drill decided to pack in at this point which made it all take twice as long as it should. After a lot of messing about I mounted the intercooler and it fitted perfectly, about an inch or so higher than the bottom of the chassis crossmember. Even though nobody will see it I rounded the edges over before I painted them, I’m in danger of doing stuff properly at this rate. IntercoolerTabs.jpg

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