Note on Allisport Intercooler
My vehicle is 1998 130 with built on camper.I fitted a new Allisport intercooler, the larger mount beside the radiator style, mounted it in new rubbers and all looked stress free in 2013.
2015 and 35,000km later it was a cracked piece of aluminium for recycling.
Allisport of course claimed it was my fault and that his quality good enough to be used in motor sport.I suggested that he was capable of producing two different qualities.
Some people get a really good run from them, I like a few other got inferior product.
I then paid a lot more for ARE of Brendale Brisbane to make one for me, so far it is perfect.
It also has far better tube profile and thus better cooling, and the core is made in Australia thus the higher price.
On inspecting my Allisport unit his opinion was that the core was of an older design no longer used in Australia but China was using the pattern.
This is possibly confirmed in a letter to the editor in the UK magazine Land Rover Monthly May 2018 page 24. Part of which reads" the much-reported Allisport Chinese intercoolers (two both splitting on the weld at approx. 15,000 miles each) now replaced with a BAS intercooler".
130 Camper
