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intercooler bypass 850 1994

posted by  someone claiming to be chuck on  Sat Jan 17 15:14 CST 2004 [RELATED]

Well I've finally done it. This is the fourth winter I've owned the car and I've been putting up with hard starting and sometimes no starting on cold days (-20 deg. C) due to a frozen intercooler. I finally bypassed the intercooler today. The way I did it was to cut the aluminium pipe running over the engine from the turbo just as the pipe begins to run down to connect to the lower intercooler hose. I then ran a flex rubber radiator hose (2 inch I.D.) from the cut end of the aluminium pipe straight to the intake throttle hose. The car started right away and I took it for a fast test drive. Everything works fine and there is no loss of performance. We will have to see how the car starts and runs once the temperature dips down to -20 C again. In the spring I will reconnect the intercooler .

Chuck






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