Decided to take both inter coolers off today as they are quite corroded and battered with road debris etc,

 

My question is, will she run OK? enough for me to put her back in the garage with them still off?

 

Not likely to do any harm am I?

 

I will put some before and after photos up later.

While I have the front end off, is there any particular points of interest that anyone would like photos of?

 

Thanks in advance.

Id be worried about sucking crap into the tubs mate tbh..

stockings over pipes going to the turbo's..... stop crap getting sucked in.....??

Will run rough as MAF won't register..... I think....

Correct you'd be cutting out the air metering, that being said it should run normally till 3k

unplug the afm so it ignores it.

Jeff

Thanks guys! I appreciate the replies.

 

Reluctantly, I have left her on the drive with the cover on. I just hope I do not get any more lit cigarette ends flicked on her!

 

I have attached some photos of the inter coolers as they came off, would they affect performance by much with this damage?

In real world road use I would doubt any issue would be caused, in fact I would hazard a guess many, many zeds and other turbo cars have inter-coolers would have the same fin damage and run just fine.

 

Jeff TT

Thanks Jeff,

With that said, I decided to just do a light re work of the fins and give them a good flush out internally and then re fitted.

Once I had started mind, I did not know where to stop.

I ended up taking most of the front end off, so much to clean.