quattro Digest, Vol 127, Issue 3

[Kneale Brownson]

Why wouldn't you go with the 20-valve version AND add the auxiliary radiator, given the added demands you're making on that engine?

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> On May 3, 2014, at 3:09 PM, cody at 5000tq.com wrote:
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> Thanks for the offer! I've found several OE style in both all copper and aluminum w/ plastic tanks of various quality and price. My actual intention was to take this as an opportunity to upgrade to something with additional cooling capacity since this is my 500hp 5ktq that I'm preparing to put an even larger turbo on.
> 
> Contrary to most, I have no qualms about running plastic tank rads; the one that I broke was at least ten years old and was 100% my fault that it got broken otherwise I have no doubt that it would have continued to serve well for years to come.
> 
> The one I was looking at for the 200tq20v is here:
> http://r.ebay.com/QaNZFw
> 
> It's Chinese but looks fairly decent and there's lots of good feedback on them. However, I've since found that one of my wholesalers has OE Behr plastic/aluminum units on clearance for a lot less, even less than WorldPac has a "Metrix" brand that I've never heard of. I never had even slight cooling issues before so I'm going to go OE and put the savings towards some of the other bits needed to do the turbo.