Bit of advice. What have you supercharged people done to mount the rad when removing the radiator frame? Reused the holes in which the frame mounted?

I'm having continual problems with the radiator lower hose working it's way out. Just looking for possible causes. Feels like the hose doesn't quote have enough pull.

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

You mean the hose pops out the rad ?

Oh and take the lower hose out of the plastic chassis clamps behind the osf wheel while connecting it. It has a little more give this way.

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***Breaking*** Ph3 Silver GTI 6 High Boost

Why not convert to a 205 rad and have proper pipe work then run a separate small header tank on the bulk head

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230 hp 2.1 16v XU 205 rallye on jenveys Project thread here
309 3dr K20 Type R

This is the exact reason I'm having a custom intercooler and Rad setup on mine! good luck getting it sorted mate.

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Super high boost Completed, destroyer of gearboxes and 160mph club

My charger exit pipe is very close to. I will change the set up one day and re route the pipes as said above.

You could always put a ph2 rad and pipe on it as its twist fit and the work better for a cheaper alternative.

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***Breaking*** Ph3 Silver GTI 6 High Boost

Only problem with this is there is not enough room in the engine bay to put a header tank in for us people that still have a battery in the engine bay.

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***Breaking*** Ph3 Silver GTI 6 High Boost

Top hose on my mates 205 I built. Sorry not focused on the cooling setup really

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230 hp 2.1 16v XU 205 rallye on jenveys Project thread here
309 3dr K20 Type R

The red pipe is the self bleed and goes from top of the header tank and to the rad.
You can't see it in the pic of the rad in its box very well but it's at the bottom right of the pic

Yeah spiky had 205 rad and a header tank as all gti6 205's will have.

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230 hp 2.1 16v XU 205 rallye on jenveys Project thread here
309 3dr K20 Type R

Gonna give that some thought. Cant understand really why this b**ch wont play ball.

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)

I've never had problems with it?, fitted Nissan rad aswell with the supercharge, you saying the intercooler pipe work making it pop off?

Simon, it will work ok but you'll need a new hose.

The way to do it is take the front bumper off for easy access and then with a nice new hose, put some Vaseline around the o-ring and then push the pipe in. It will glide in really easy and fit with a snug 'pop', then fit the clip. No more problem.

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"Supercharged - 454.1bhp/317.5lb/ft"
Peugeot 306 GTi-6
2000 (X), Moonstone

It might come to a new hose. I have two if i recall, so perhaps I have a spare seal to try. Just fed up of it atm, the rest of the car is spot on but I don't trust that hose one little bit!! A new pipe looks to be 30 quid so that's a good back-up plan. Tempting to fit a jubilee around it

In all honesty I need to take it apart and have a proper look what's going on. I've resigned myself to using a car transporter to move it to the new house for now and will fix it later.

FWIW the supercharger arrangement is a CG cars setup, lifted from my mate's xsara VTS when we stripped it. The outlet pipe is just touching the radiator (probably had more room on the Xsara), but this didn't cause any problems for a couple hundred miles of absolute caning (it's not an A to B car as you can imagine). Might be able to just trim some excess plastic off the rad to alleviate this. Please also remember my LHS intercooler pipe goes above the rad connector, not underneath, but it's not touching anything here.

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I'm Si btw

Night Blue VW Golf GTD
Bianca LBSC Rallye - Track/Road Slag Project Thread
Sparkling Silver Mini Cooper D - Super Dooper - (The other half's wheels)