Forced Induction - Camaro FMIC guys, show me your grille!

I just got a new bumper because I cracked the hell out of my last one. Also, I don't think I made too much of a professional grade cutting job when it came to my bumper the last time. What are you all doing w/ your bumper/grille area? Are you cutting the whole thing out? Let me see some pics of your grilles please.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/01NastySS/turbo%20build/frontdone.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/01NastySS/My%20car%20and%20stuff/frontgrill.jpg

That looks nice. Was it tricky cutting all that out?

PITA! Props to my Dad for doing it though :D

http://www.exoticperformanceplus.com/projectCar.php?car=32

Check out the link above. Bob


http://www.exoticperformanceplus.com//images/projectCarImages/Scotts%20Camaro%20pic%2043.jpg

This is very similar to Country Boys ^^^^^^

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v735/andydpa/fmic-1.jpg?t=1172332468

That looks the best IMHO.

Good luck
Andy

^^^ bad ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!

building
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/99Z28LS1/948139de.jpg

on
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/99Z28LS1/DSCN0280.jpg

off
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/99Z28LS1/DSCN0178.jpg

I mounted twin 4.5" ATI intercoolers vertically.

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~aatomlin/pictures/Turbo/mounted2.jpg

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~aatomlin/pictures/Turbo/mounted1.jpg

ABeasst, do you have any more pics from the backside of those IC's? Im trying to get an idea of how you have the outlet pipe from the IC's routed.

http://www.lsjuan.com/turbo/ls1fmic.jpg

ABeast thats a heck of an interesting idea! Would be interesting to see before and after IAT readings from the traditional mounting and then yours.

ABeasst, do you have any more pics from the backside of those IC's? Im trying to get an idea of how you have the outlet pipe from the IC's routed.

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~aatomlin/pictures/Turbo/piping1.jpg

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~aatomlin/pictures/Turbo/piping2.jpg

thats all I have right now. I'll get a pic of the pipe going into the intake later.

That's a pretty cool setup, beasst.

However, I think I like Westside's setup the best so far. It's in your face, but subtle all around.

I would think running those 2 intercoolers in series like that (vs. parallel like ATI intended) would create a big pressure drop.

just turn the knob up to take care of it.

ABeasst, nice twins :drive:
http://users.adelphia.net/~mmuller1/car_pics/3719.jpg

man i need a front mont!!!!

i'll see if i take some pics

Here's mine. I choose to not hack up my front bumper and just to run some custom ducting from underneath the car instead. I did cut the area behind my fog lights but that is barely noticable. I'm sure if you decide to hack up your front bumper and have a gaping hole you will probably get the max cooling available to your FMIC. But mine works just fine at keeping my IAT's nice and cold :cool:

http://i15.tinypic.com/2ldwp52.jpg

ABeasst, nice twins :drive:

thanks. :devil:

kind of a crappy pic, but you get the idea!!

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/7/web/367000-367999/367117_65_full.jpg

I wasn't as creative as Country Boy's grill (which looks really nice BTW.:) ) I went with the "less is more" philosophy :lol:

http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/9025/ls1techimage31fp.jpg

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/7725/ls1techimage81kk.jpg

BTW, I cut the grill opening by hand with a Dremel and a standard cut-off wheel :)

nice schantin, always a sweet car and nice build

nice schantin, always a sweet car and nice build

Thanks :)

Here is mine sorry about the mess Im still working on it :(

what abouth this?

Here is the car
http://www.camaro-transam.com/personales/aletz28/frente1.jpg

A Close up:
http://www.camaro-transam.com/personales/aletz28/parrilla.jpg

unfinish...look's nice too
http://www.camaro-transam.com/personales/aletz28/frontIC.jpg

Link to a pic in my sig

I really like the entire thing cut out, but I think it actually looks a little too flashy sometimes unless the intercooler fills the ENTIRE space. I might just stick w/ cutting out the middle again like garrid and the others. This time I'm going to take good care and not injure my intercooler. I haven't seen anything extremely unique. However, with the camaro there is less that one can do; whereas, w/ the trans am there's so much that can be done. I really like the first poster w/ the smaller mesh in the grille.

Link to a pic in my sig
Okay okay here it is.......

http://calibercustoms.com/images/01gg0.jpg

Okay okay here it is.......

http://calibercustoms.com/images/01gg0.jpg

i love this picture, because it looks like your car is a toy, but little do people know that it's a :devil:

what abouth this?

Here is the car
http://www.camaro-transam.com/personales/aletz28/frente1.jpg

A Close up:
http://www.camaro-transam.com/personales/aletz28/parrilla.jpg

unfinish...look's nice too
http://www.camaro-transam.com/personales/aletz28/frontIC.jpg

thats a nice looking set up, i thought about making my intercooler black

Pretty much the same as in my sig...

http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=88045

http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=88046

Very similar:

http://www.fquick.com/images/vehicles/full/16666927.jpg?1161144514

pdanrichey FTW!!! woot woot

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/01NastySS/turbo%20build/frontdone.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v614/01NastySS/My%20car%20and%20stuff/frontgrill.jpg
Dude your car looks WICKED!!!!!
Where did you get the grill insert?
Can you give me anymore info on the HOWTO?
Any pics of the job as it went on?
Thanks... Again it's WICKED EVIL

Its an SLP SS grill that he cut out. I did mine very similar, all I did was mark out the areas to be cut on the back and go to town with the dremel.

http://www.lsjuan.com/turbo/ls1fmic.jpg


i know that piece ;)

i know that piece ;)

hahaha :jest: The piece that whores up my garage everytime I fix another problem. Ugh :cry:

Here is my new Grill:
http://www.turbotechnologyinc.com/forums/ls1_race_walkthrough-ls1tech.com/intercoolermounted.jpg

Ryan K.

Here is my new Grill:
http://www.turbotechnologyinc.com/forums/ls1_race_walkthrough-ls1tech.com/intercoolermounted.jpg

Ryan K.

4" thick now right? :drive:
Haven't got to try the injectors out yet, still waiting on Moates/Greenlight to finish up with my pcm.

sweet!!!!

okay the shop i brought my front clip too,for sanding and cleaning up the area i cut out of the bumper for my FMIC told me that since i don't have any type of lip left that the area has no support and the plastic is going to want to sag in the area where the black use to be? so they said to put some kind of brace/support inside the bumper to keep that from happening. this is on a LT1.

any thoughts on this guys?

does anyone have specific data on IAT's with a standard with openings only on the sides versus no grill. Its obvious the no grill version will have lower temps due to a direct shot of cool air...

however, i just wanted to see how low the IAT's would average with the grill in place.

Acutally, this is my grill.. what do ya'll think? With some creative ducting, could i keep and still have relatively decent IAT's?

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m50/obzidian/DSC00364.jpg

:drive: theres mesh in the grill just hard to see.

you mean that evil mesh?!