Intercooler on ebay

I think that looks like an early chinese cooler thats been polished.

on the ad is says not airtec or forge...

 

I asked same question mate dimensions are 275x570x63

 

13 cooling rows. Looks like a cheap one to me also.

 

I bought ebay item number 221625253441 13 rows and 11" heigh and 6kg....not sure i want to fit it

how much is the stock Renault one?

 

Its got to be better than standard and at least it was cheap. Some mug paid double that for the other one.

 

Does anyone know how much the stock one is?

how much is the Forge one?

 

Those end's aren't plastic ate they ??

 

Tbh I'm not sure if it is a Chinese one, it's highly polished, the welding is better, the brackets are better and the inside core is much better my Chinese one (I asked for inside pics of the core).
The inner core looks as good as any I've seen, it has nice small channels and turbulators too.

 

This is pure speculation but from looking at the core, and the weight of it and the fact it comes from Gloucester it may be a former/ current employee of forge. I had the impression from my messages with him that he may be the fabricator although it was never confirmed.

 

I picked one up too after asking for picks of inside the core, outside of eBay though.
I probably won't get around to fitting it till the new year though. It is quite heavy compared to my winner racing one (from memory) I haven't compared total size yet though but my winner racing one had 17 rows I think so Will probably be a bit bigger.

 

Forge actually have a uk supplier to all cores now not cheapo Asian cores fyi

 

I'm going to fit it and try it out then decide after I've done a bit of datalogging. But I'm quite impressed with the build quality tbh.
I was going to try and fashion a air scoop like the airtech one too.

Does anyone know how far the airtech scoop protrudes?

 

Yeah the core on my latest one doesn't look anything like my Chinese one. I'm not sure if it is a UK core or not but it's completely different to my Chinese one.

 

there's a quick pic of the core, sorry about the quality but my battery is low so won't let me use the flash!

 

But there's loads more channels compared to my Chinese one you prob can't see in the pic but there also turbulators which from memory my winner racing one didn't have

 

I doubt the scoop will make much difference anyway, the gap under the cooler to engine tray is minimal and below the front bumper grill. Air will always try to find a path of less resistance.

Would like to see some independent data to actually see what difference if any it does make.

 

Yeah almost identical mate I did try to upload the pics lolly sent me but couldn't work it out!

 

Yeah I'm not sure if it will make much difference but as that advert says every little helps!

 

My guess is they need it on the airtec coolers due to the core being so ridiculously thick.

 

Yeah they are big old beasts, 50% thicker than the two I've got!
It does make sense though, sort of like a ram air intake, it should hopefully push a bit more air through the core

 

More so it doesn't act like building a brick wall in front of the coolant radiator. They do look good and great for bragging " look at my huge intercooler, good for 500bhp" even though im only running 270 bhp.

 

Getting the new intercooler fitted tomorrow it looks the same as the Forge one and there was Forge tape on the parcel (just a small strip).

If it is a Forge one it was a bargain.:cool:

 

It will be stamped forge

 

Do Forge use 13 row cores for their Megane intercoolers?

 

Forge dont make the cores, when i go pick up my radiator i'll ask what cores the new megane coolers use

 

Who did you buy yours off for that price? fancy one of these myself

 

ah yes i see that one cheers