monkecmonkedo
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- Joined
- Mar 28, 2005
- Location
- Manchester Center, VT
Because the VW MK5 intercooler is pretty close to a drop in fit for a 240 and there are tons of performance parts for them like this China version of an APR intercooler.
The core size perfectly fills the entire open space in the radiator core support of a 240 with the top of the intercooler sitting just below the sheet metal lip of the radiator core support (the RH side in the picture is sitting up a bit because the hose connection is sitting on the battery but I'll be trimming 3 inches or so off those behemoth hose connections and it will fit). A little gasket work and the intercooler will be sealed against the sheet metal to ensure all airflow goes through the intercooler.
Passenger side:
Driver side:
And another benefit is that VW mounts their radiator to the intercooler and their fan to the radiator so no more modifying an e-fan to fit. Everything VW will be pretty much plug and play. Even the radiator hoses are pretty close to matching up. Again, lots of aftermarket high performance stuff for Vdubs, like this Mishimoto all aluminum radiator.
Now I just need to get the hoses to make this all fit. I'll update the post once I'm done.
The core size perfectly fills the entire open space in the radiator core support of a 240 with the top of the intercooler sitting just below the sheet metal lip of the radiator core support (the RH side in the picture is sitting up a bit because the hose connection is sitting on the battery but I'll be trimming 3 inches or so off those behemoth hose connections and it will fit). A little gasket work and the intercooler will be sealed against the sheet metal to ensure all airflow goes through the intercooler.
Passenger side:
Driver side:
And another benefit is that VW mounts their radiator to the intercooler and their fan to the radiator so no more modifying an e-fan to fit. Everything VW will be pretty much plug and play. Even the radiator hoses are pretty close to matching up. Again, lots of aftermarket high performance stuff for Vdubs, like this Mishimoto all aluminum radiator.
Now I just need to get the hoses to make this all fit. I'll update the post once I'm done.