Show us your cooler/front bar thread!

[Malakai]

Along the lines of such classics as 'Show us your Engine bay thread!' post up pics of how you modified your front bar to take a cooler behind it.

I'll start... nothing revolutionary but it's a little bit of a different take on the obvious way of cutting a stock bar to take a cooler. It's also a work in progress, once the piping is made more cutting will be done to make room for the piping. Some of the reinforcing bar still needs to be trimmed on the left also.

[EF ECTIV]

here's mine... wouldve liked to move the cooler even further forward
so it sits flush with the bumper but meh....

[private9]

Here's mine:



Would love to do this eventually:

[Kaddis]

Can't find any good ones and cbf going through the computer



And Justin you need to post up a thread with some pics of the daily!

[SNR]

The setup in my EA before I blew it up & sold it:

[EFFalcon]

what intercooler???

[Kyle the ED4LTR]

what intercooler???

that BA kit on the EF looks fuckin clean John

[Allen]

I was at Rushworth speedway on saturday night, and there was a black ED XR with a BA XT bumper... I thought it was aftermarket until I had a close up look in the pits... It suited just as well as it does John's EF!

[510EB]

looks good Malakai.. getting close now..

[NUT347]

it never looked right, you could see how much i cut out tho

[ed40]

Is this just a 'show off ur front end' thread or do u want actual pics of how we modified bar n shit?

[NUT347]

hmm dunno?

post yours up ed40, its so stealth!

[ed40]

I would but no one can see it hahaha

[Malakai]

Is this just a 'show off ur front end' thread or do u want actual pics of how we modified bar n shit?

If it's related to making the cooler fit post it up.

[lowghia]

this pic just to show , yes it is there

[ned]

Painting it black at some stage.

[ClassicAU]

I know they are like lepers around here, but would anyone have an photos of an AU with an intercooler fitted? Behind a stock front bar if possible? Just to see what I am up against later on down the track when I can get my hands on one.

[EFFalcon]

surely this can be done better

[Malakai]

There is more silicone in that car than Pamela Anderson...

[Tocchi]

EF when its "all show"


EF stealth mode


EF at drags

[pHaT`eL]

Last pic is TOUGH!! Dont know why, but XR's with no front bar and a huge cooler hanging out the front looks awesome.

[ClassicAU]

surely this can be done better

Thanks for the find John! I do agree, that is a pretty rubbish attempt. If I end up doing a cooler, I want to try and mount the thing much higher than that, like right up between the headlights. I have a 'honeycomb' Ghia grille, and from what I can see there is plenty of room, and heaps of air flows through it. Mounting point would probably be the biggest problem.

[pHaT`eL]

While im here, may as well post this up. Will get a better shot when its outside.

[EFFalcon]

i think a slightly narrower cooler would work well on an AU.
becuase you could get it up between the headlights.

[ClassicAU]

That would be the plan. I have no idea if getting a smaller cooler would make much of a difference to efficiency, but its not as if I am going to have 11ty horsepower anyway!

[EFFalcon]

i wouldn't be too concerned.
a majority of people who put turbo's on falcon's go and buy $150 ebay spec coolers.
they work but they're far from the best cooler on the market.
i think a 450x300 core would slot up pretty good on an AU.
added to the fact that you'd get air from both the open grill at the top, and the radiator opening, it should work pretty well.

most EA-EL owners end up having a total of about 40% cooler showing, and they still work effectively.