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Wow I would be extremely interested to hear your progress with that. I think I'm giving up on going the stand alone route. Good as it is there is a lot of time and expense in ripping out the loom and I just don't have the energy to to such a big project. There is so much else to do on my car right now modifying has just got to sit on the back burner except the inter cooler which I've come up with a good plan for. I'm going to cut 200mm off the core and weld the end tank back on so it fits straight into the car with only a bracket needing fabrication. I wasn't really comfortable with cutting the front of the car apart to fit it and I don't need an inter cooler any bigger than will fit in the space. It will still be about 3 times the size and should flow many times better than the standard unit when complete.
 
Sounds like a good plan. Like you say getting everything into top condition before starting with upgrades is a good idea. With regards to the new DME board, I have been looking at how feasible it would be to do such a thing and I'm pretty convinced I can do it now. It would retain the standard knock protection offered by the KLR. Also boost control could be added easily and installation should be about as easy as changing a chip plus the installation of the MAP sensor. Tuning/datalogging would be done over USB. The only issue with using MAP would be tuning, a MAF sensor doesn't really require tuning as its measuring air flow. MAP does not really tell you anything about how a particular engine is flowing so would need to be mapped to the car. However I think the kit could be produced cheap enough such that even with dyno time it would work out cheaper than what is currently available. It would offer the benefits of a more 'neat' solution without the need for a piggyback. I have copies of the 944's DME code and I have an app which can read all the maps. This would allow the base maps to be copied over from the factory DME. This should help for things like cold starting.
 
Top work! Sounds fantastic and I would love to see a UK based product on the market. If you do manage to put something together maybe one of the existing UK tuning companies would be interested in partnering up with your product (similarly to the way Jon Mitchell works with Simon on the SPS turbos). The ability to run a map sensor and make your own adjustments via USB just by plugging a new ECU unit into the existing system would be a level of product not yet seen on the German tuning market. 'Mines' offer something similar for the Jap market and I've always been jealous. If it works you should consider building one for the 1.8t VAG engines because there are thousands of these and the standard ECU is awful! All the tuners have problems with them.
 
Hmm, interesting idea there! Another idea I have been toying with i using a air water heat exchanger mounted in the location of the existing intercooler and placing the radiator in front of the engine coolant radiatior. Its a great way of getting IAT down without any significant pressure drop, but at the expense ofa slight increase in complexity.
 
ORIGINAL: barks944 Hmm, interesting idea there! Another idea I have been toying with i using a air water heat exchanger mounted in the location of the existing intercooler and placing the radiator in front of the engine coolant radiatior. Its a great way of getting IAT down without any significant pressure drop, but at the expense ofa slight increase in complexity.
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It's a personal opinion based on no fact of study what so ever but I've always felt the weight of a charge cooler, separate tank, pump, hosing and the extra volume of water would outweigh any minute benefit you might get over a decent air to air inter cooler in this country. In a desert maybe but I still think the water would soon reach air temp.
 
Fitting a front mounted inter cooler low down so you allow the original intake slot for the inter cooler to become a cold air intake for the engine then removing the air box and relocating in place of the old inter cooler with nitrous spray jets on the new inter cooler pointing upwards so you freeze the inter cooler and allow a mist of nitrous to enter the intake at the same time... now that is an idea. Quite crazy but I've looked at it and there is a nice big oval under the metalwork you could fit an air intake pipe through. An idea for the future maybe.
 
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