BonnevillevRS

Yeah the constraints on the front end of this car do dictate what you can do! The Twintercooler is not the way to go IMO...its just quick product to get market to make money in the interim of them doing it properly! I saw your build progress vRSy on your intercooler and I think a straight swap item is where I am going with this! Gas flow against cooling efficiency is what dictates a good cooler from a bad one, I also think a water injection port on the intake side of the cooler would be a nice option. APR have the dyno I used to run so I know the cooling fans are not the best on it, charge coolers are good for sprint cars or drag cars...not road/track cars as you eventually start heating your intake charge once you have transferred all your heat to the coolant!...its start transferring it back! lol

Hello Guys, How are you? Just wondering if anyone has uprated the intercooler on their Fabia vRS 1.4 twin charger? If you have, please feel free to post up what you have, what it was like to fit (if you did it DIY), what difference you feel it makes and if you felt the price was fair (feel free to post how much it cost if you are willing). To those of you who don't have one, what is holding you back? Is it purely cost? Would be nice to get an idea on what the market offers for a very important part on this car?! Cheers guys!

True! lol...just a pain!

Don't get Skoda to reflash ECU if you have a map in it! Reflash wipes the control unit completely......inc your remap!! ;-)

What technical bulletin is this? Never seen a Volkswagen Group bulletin telling you to allow the water pump to turn over?...and I have seen a few! This vehicle was rushed and didn't go through the quality control procedure correctly! I would be asking for a replacement spring clip and boost hose though!!

Recirc all the way unless you own an Escort RS Turbo! Also, makes sense to put all that energy you used in compressing that air back into the inlet tract!

If you are going to remap...concentrate on getting air in and out as fast as possible! Clean the intake tract up and make sure it is getting cool unturbulent air in and get the cat out of the system (or race cell in) to make sure the turbo isn't being held back! Then you can really wind her up!! ;-)

+1 with Carl...it is to do with the Engine Control Unit version, not the engine! A 2.0TSI in a GOLF will not be OBD mappable, you have to open the CU and put it into "boot" mode! A 2011 Octavia vRS is on the other hand as we mapped the vRS on the salt flats through the OBD socket! Honestly, it is so hard to see a control unit is mapped these days!...harder than people make out to the extent no one can really tell you if it is mapped!

Bigger the cooler to a point....then performance dives off a cliff as the turbo cant fill the cooler quick enough!!

They are putting out closer to 300bhp on the rally than what the mags etc get to test! If you think a leon cupra puts out less with a turbo...its impressive!

It's already road legal!! It has to be for WRC and IRC rules....they drive between special stages on the roads! Even the slicks and gravel tyres are EU approved for use on road! lol Engines only last 1,000kms before a rebuild though! 200,000 Euros and you can buy one!

You are going to spend a few hundred pounds paying someone to modify your car to make it fit and make the pipework!

Why not just buy a proper one for the car...unless you are an engineer and can make the brackets and pipework yourself! Also, what the cap[acity of the cooler and the flow rate? Too big and you will make the car laggy!

You are either a pro wrapper or just good out of the gate! That looks very nice! It takes hours to do a car and is bluddy hard to make it look good! Big panels are quick but hard to get bubble free, smaller panels and fittings are just fiddly! lol

Sorry KB, weren't saying you were mate! :-) No automotive professional should be using this equipment if they properly understand how an AC system works! If you as a customer own an older vehicle with R12 and top up with R134a...it explodes when heated! In a Dealership you will have to be certified to work on an air conditioning system so as to understand the legal, environmental and safety implications involved! But as I said before, topping up a system when you dont know how much is already in it is dangerous....would you put a litre of oil in your engine without checking the dipstick? AC gas pressure does not change with quantity in the system, so 100 grams in an AC system will read the same on a pressure gauge as 10kg in the same AC system! Thats why this tool is probably sold as "get out of jail free card" for your AC and advises you to visit an approved AC specialist sooner rather than later! As for Kwik Fit, with the custom they have I hope they are doing it correctly and evacuating, vacuuming and refilling the system with the correct weight of refrigerant! If you aren't sure just ask them. I know Skoda retailers will be as it is a franchise standard to use only an VWG approved AC service stations and NONE of those stations can simply top up! This is because there is no pressure difference between the vehicle system and the AC service station to "push" the refrigerant from one to the other, which is why it is vacuumed out of the vehicle, the vehicle AC system is placed under vacuum - so the refrigerant is then drawn back in. I imagine the Halfords can has 2 pressure chambers, top chamber you connect to the filling pipe which holds a certain amount of R134a and the lower chamber is just full of "air" that is a higher pressure than the holding pressure of the R134a in the chamber above (R134a rests at 5 bar), so it is pushed in! Sorry, a bit in depth! lol