DS3 Intercooler

[Chris_Blue]

Thinky you have to virtually remove the crash bar on the DS3
Jamie would know more- as he offered to have a go for me

[Diesel-TR-]

My 10lt intercooler

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...02902650_o.jpg

[Chris_Blue]

What intercooler is it TR, and is it dual or single pass?

[MadMan0]

Has anyone fitted the forge intercooler onto the 110 Hdi?
Does it make any positive difference to anything or just add cost & increase turbo lag?

[Chris_Blue]

Been waiting for that Forge intercooler to drop in price for over year and a half
Still hasn't - Over £800 retail, then get someone to fit it.
Pricey- last mod on the list for me....and wait see if price drops...or something as good comes along

[MadMan0]

Prestige Performance has the forge intercooler for the DS3 on sale. Has anyone used Prestige Performance before? I've never heard of them...
http://www.ppcgb.com/products/forge-...gines-fmintds3

[Chris_Blue]

Not used them, but the intercooler price looks better than you can get from Forge (£741 as opposed to £824)

[Jimbob]

Has anyone ever added up the cost of all these mods plus the purchase cost and realised you could get more by buying a better car in the first place?

JB

[Dangerousfish]

Has anyone ever added up the cost of all these mods plus the purchase cost and realised you could get more by buying a better car in the first place!!!

JB

In my case, no.

I probably had around 2-2.5k's worth of mods on mine before it was stripped and sold. I couldn't have bought much more of a car with that and expected to be insured on it too.

[Chris_Blue]

The original comparison was between a 207BHP DS3 Racing, and a DS3 THP 150 BHP.
One was around £24grand at the time, and the other about £16grand

If you did the majority of performance the mods, intercooler, remap, coilovers etc etc etc on the THP it came to about £3-3.5 grand and got to about 210BHP
So there were a few owners on here saying- get a THP and mod it

Obvs that amount didn't cover the Carbon fibre, wheels etc

But take your point JB.

[Jimbob]

I am genuinely interested in the comparison. It was in no way meant as a criticism as I love reading about all the mods

JB

[cyclone]

Has anyone ever added up the cost of all these mods plus the purchase cost and realised you could get more by buying a better car in the first place?

JB

In my case the a car is also a hobby I get enjoyment out of modifying it. Would not matter how expensive the car is because I would start changing things on it. So I could buy a 20k euro thp and spend 10k on it or I could buy a 30k euro racing and spend 10k on it.

[MadMan0]

I am genuinely interested in the comparison. It was in no way meant as a criticism as I love reading about all the mods

JB

I've had a few cars before this DS3, All of which i worked on my self, maintained my self and modded myself. I enjoy it and learn a lot along the way; it's never been about the cost of modding vs a new car.. but...
Mk1 punto £250 - top speed about 85 mph
£200 worth of mods - top spped over 110 mph... And i got a car which was mine. i knew everything about the car, what was likely to fail next etc etc (preventative maintainance). - also very quick to 30mph (good on tight tracks)
I bought the DS3 as a new car (amung other reasons) to see if it's worth spending £20k on a New car or £500 on an old one and doing it up.
So far:
The £500 ish punto has Never broken down, no major fault (with the exception of faulty parts (new brakes))
The DS3 - been back for repairs for more time than i've been driving it, endless paint problems and to be honest, rather fed up with it. So in comparision i would say that spending more for a car which "is" better is worse than modding a "worse" car. :-)

That said, I do still like my DS3 and think i can improve it to be at an accecptable standard by modding it my-self (started with better brakes - which also look cool :-D) - sadly i dern't do anything non-reversable because i'm claiming on the warrenty left, right and centre.

- sorry for bad spelling, got Final Exam Thursday :-S = Stressed out.

[Chris_Blue]

I am genuinely interested in the comparison. It was in no way meant as a criticism as I love reading about all the mods
JB

Wasn't taken as critiscism by me, you have a point IMO. Next time round I'd get something like a Jag XFR V8 which shouldn't need modding:redface:
Used, I hasten to add

[Superfly Guy]

In my case the a car is also a hobby I get enjoyment out of modifying it.

You have hit the nail on the head. Anybody who has a cost effective hobby needs to bore off and get a life.