Charge cooler radiator

[Chris15]

Hi lads, had a bit off a problem this morning when a large hare decided to have a suicide mission involving my car. The thing has cracked my bumper, bent my grill and smashed into my chargecooler radiator. The problem I have is I am 170 miles away from home working and need to get home this weekend. I drove about 60 miles today after the accident with a leak on the radiation just keeping off the boost and watching the Temps on the scan gauge. I am just wondering weather I will be able to make it home just going easy and keeping off the boost again as my Temps where maxing at about 38 and lower at times??

Please help.

[BartFRS]

You made it home?
I only just noticed your thread.

[1983baker]

I ran mine home few months back with no chargecooler pump,with scangauge and it didn't go above 9degC. Was a 120mile drive mainly motorway speeds but in traffic no change

[Chris15]

OK mate cheers I have 170 miles to go I just don't want to cause any more damage not sure what to do.

[R222 USH]

Hope all goes ok matey, sorry to here of the damage

[BartFRS]

You be fine with those temperatures.
Keep an eye @ inlet temperature on your way home.

[Chris15]

Cheers lads, just going to see how it goes hopefully all will be fine and I can get home and get things sorted, going to put a airtec chargecooler radiator on it I think and then just hope the bumper can be repaired..

[Chris15]

Well I made it home lads, thanks for the help and information. Car was in the garage today had a airtec chargecooler radiator put on it now just need to sort out the body work but at least she is running properly again 😀😀

[BOB87]

I ran mine home few months back with no chargecooler pump,with scangauge and it didn't go above 9degC. Was a 120mile drive mainly motorway speeds but in traffic no change

Hey, everybody. Are you talking about an engine inlet temp of 9 degrees? My scanner shows 45-47 degrees on the intake air, in normal normal driving. Is that not normal? How can the temperature be 9 degrees? Tell me more please. What should the temperature readings be?

[BOB87]

Hi lads, had a bit off a problem this morning when a large hare decided to have a suicide mission involving my car. The thing has cracked my bumper, bent my grill and smashed into my chargecooler radiator. The problem I have is I am 170 miles away from home working and need to get home this weekend. I drove about 60 miles today after the accident with a leak on the radiation just keeping off the boost and watching the Temps on the scan gauge. I am just wondering weather I will be able to make it home just going easy and keeping off the boost again as my Temps where maxing at about 38 and lower at times??

Please help.

What do you mean by ‘disconnecting the supercharger’? You mean you've turned off the turbo boost? Is that possible?

[DanT404]

Hey, everybody. Are you talking about an engine inlet temp of 9 degrees? My scanner shows 45-47 degrees on the intake air, in normal normal driving. Is that not normal? How can the temperature be 9 degrees? Tell me more please. What should the temperature readings be?

If you are seeing intake temps of 45-47°c i would be fairly certain in saying your chargecooler pump has packed up, or you have no coolant in the system due to a leak (internal or external). Upon normal driving the intake temps should be somewhere around the ambient temperature. This will climb as its driven harder but shouldnt be reaching the numbers you are seeing.

[BOB87]

If you are seeing intake temps of 45-47°c i would be fairly certain in saying your chargecooler pump has packed up, or you have no coolant in the system due to a leak (internal or external). Upon normal driving the intake temps should be somewhere around the ambient temperature. This will climb as its driven harder but shouldnt be reaching the numbers you are seeing.

Thanks for the reply. I saw that when you wrote about 9 degrees, it was January, so it's fine. Really I think my pump needs the brushes replaced, as after 30 minutes of driving the temp rises to 56 degrees. And the cooler box is really hot to the touch. So I'm not driving the car now until I take the pump off and check it. Hopefully replacing the brushes will solve the problem. Before and after replacement I will try to connect it with wires to 12V battery to check the operation. I hope that I will replace the pump.