fitting 100mm intercooler crossmember mod

[escosgaz]

how have people done this? chop complete crossmember out and weld a solid bar in or fit a removable one? pics wud be ideal, cheers.

[cossiedavid]

easy gaz iv done it to mine to have more room welded a piece of inch box secton as far forward as poss

[georgie1]

here you go gaz of mike post

[QUOTE=Mike Rainbird;113586]Some photos I should have taken and put up from the weekend, but was too busy, so here they are now:

These are the brackets for the intercooler and radiator, so they are mounted separately. I thought this prudent due to their size and weight :




I then decided to have the crossmember removable to make life easy when it came to removing stuff. Now the intercooler can be removed without draining the cooling system and having to take out the radiator first :



The L-brackets are to make sure that when towed, the weight of the car is not reliant on just the four bolts :






The cross member is made out of a beefy piece of 40 x 20 box:






To give it more room and airflow, it was also modified from this:


to this:


Might be a bit subtle for some of you, but quite a bit was removed where it wasn't needed, and has had the result that the Morrettes fit better as well . The towing eye thread just needs to be cut from the original and reinstated in the correct place (a job for

[escosgaz]

spot on dave thought thats how it wud be done next on list for mine aswell and cheers georgie boy for them pics are of good help.

[Kelv]

Same as mine Gaz, it's a simple job to do.
The old panel cuts out in minutes, it's just then down to how long you take to make it nice and tidy but I know you will do a good job of that.

[escosgaz]

cheers kelv will chop it out after graft 2morow and fit a removeable one.

[georgie1]

cheers kelv will chop it out after graft 2morow and fit a removeable one.

get pics up gaz step by step will be helpful to people on here