mave

Hope you don't get the idea I'm not enthusiastic about your ideas; I've spent lots of time playing with turbo and intercooler setups trying to get the right compromises; but it's easy to change one thing and have a detrimental effect elsewhere. Having gone down the road of a big intercooler and ended up with low intake charge temperature but lots of lag and high water temperatures, I've currently reverted to a standard setup and much better ducting / heat shielding. I've realised that to get the performance I want, I need to junk the air con radiator because its in the way of the main radiator, and there's just not enough airflow under the bonnet to feed engine, radiator, intercooler, and air con rad. Something's go to go....