Wonder if that's why you can hear it, may remove mine tomorrow. Does it actually make a difference?

Wonder if that's why you can hear it, may remove mine tomorrow. Does it actually make a difference?

Not sure mate I removed it before I got the cone. The noise of the cone actually seems to come through the passenger side air vent lol

Not sure mate I removed it before I got the cone. The noise of the cone actually seems to come through the passenger side air vent lol

I will have to open my vent then lol

I have a similar cone on mine but according to a few threads on here it just heatsoaks :/ better getting cold air in from the front imo.

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Big jase have u got a video off the actual dump valve hissing would be interested 2 hear it

I've never had heat soak nor any of my other cars I've had. Probably lost a few bhp but nothing where you notice it like when your intake temps shoot up and it goes down on power.

Big jase have u got a video off the actual dump valve hissing would be interested 2 hear it

Nope

Sounds similar to a 1.8t vag motor with forge 007p and cone filter! Maybe youtube would give some clips!

Sounds just like a petrol dump imo! Tis only air at the end of the day

Yeah charge cooler on a golf pd130

Has anyone done this to there Fabia VRS?

Very short intercooler pipework so no loses of boost!

Keeps it cool and doesnt heat soak

Short intercooler pipework is a red herring really, having lots of pipework and a very large intercooler actually acts as a reservoir for the cooled compressed inlet air, loss of boost isn't possible unless you have an air leak or a turbo malfunction.

Having a charge cooler such as yours is certainly better than just having a small underbonnet air/air intercooler but it isn't a substitute for a properly designed and constructed front mounted air/air intercooler, it's just easier to install.

The heat sink effect of an intercooler is much more important in a petrol turbo application because the turbo spends relatively short periods at high boost and then has time for the intercooler to dissipate that stored heat like the the Subaru WRX, in this application charge coolers can be very useful because water has a much higher specific heat capacity than air. Conversely in a diesel engine the turbo tends to be boosting much more of the time and therefore the heat must be dissipated more dynamically, this is why good FMIC conversions work so well for diesels.