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Subject:Re: Intercooler for TD engines?
From:Maynard Southard
Date:Tue, 4 Sep 2001 21:59:41 -0400

vegfunman just uploaded some pictures of his Saab 900 intercooler installation
in a Vanagon at the Yahoo! Audi-VW-Diesels group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Audi-VW-Diesels/files/

specifically:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Audi-VW-Diesels/files/ottointercooler.jpg

(not sure if you need to be a member of this yahoo.group to access these
pictures)

I've always wondered if the Corrado intercooler would work.  It looks pretty
compact.

Maynard Southard  OvO '79
'82 Westy Diesel "Reinhardt"
'82 Vanagon GL Diesel
'93 EV GL "Klinger"
'00 Golf GLS TDI "WooHoo"
'84 Jetta GL TD "Donor"

On Tuesday, September 04, 2001 5:49 PM, dieselwesty <dieselwesty@YAHOO.COM>
wrote:
> Well, I have heard it could give you up to 20% more power by cooling that
> air, but I do not know of anyone that has done this on a 1.6 or 1.9TD.  If
> you don't get an answer on this list, it most likely has not been done.
> Someone must have tried.  I do not know where you would put the intercooler
> radiator, let alone all the tubing.
>
> Bryan Belman       Pt. Pleasant, NJ
> 1990 Audi 200 Turbo (Money Pit)
> 1982 Westy 1.9l NA (In process)
> 1970 Type1 Std. Beetle (This one is done)