Process of Mounting Intercooler
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From: Trollin DFW Texas
It's a custom fab and most guys use different sized FMICs so one mans setup wont always work for you
Best bet is to disassemble the front of the car and hold the IC in the position you want it to be in the end. Then fit, build brackets, reassemble the body and plumb. Same process would apply to any vehicle
Heres my 3rd gen with a 31x12x3 FMIC
Fitting infront of rad
Fabbing brackets
Plumbing
Best bet is to disassemble the front of the car and hold the IC in the position you want it to be in the end. Then fit, build brackets, reassemble the body and plumb. Same process would apply to any vehicle
Heres my 3rd gen with a 31x12x3 FMIC
Fitting infront of rad
Fabbing brackets
Plumbing
or was it just for the fab b/c in the last pic you posted it is still in there after the inter cooler is in there, just kinda confused? Are you trying to make it a bottom feeder for your inter cooler? Im just trying to see what your doing here! Last edited by NoTractionLS1; Aug 20, 2010 at 10:59 PM.
You dont wanna see my build.
It'll make you all cringe!
I cut the entire core support, crash bars and padding, pretty much everything from the inside tangent point of one headlight to the other headlight, and used 1-1/4 tubing to fab up a core support and move the STOCK radiator to a diff location and a cage for the intercooler. I'm grinding on it and making it pretty right now. Pics to come!
It'll make you all cringe!
I cut the entire core support, crash bars and padding, pretty much everything from the inside tangent point of one headlight to the other headlight, and used 1-1/4 tubing to fab up a core support and move the STOCK radiator to a diff location and a cage for the intercooler. I'm grinding on it and making it pretty right now. Pics to come!
You dont wanna see my build.
It'll make you all cringe!
I cut the entire core support, crash bars and padding, pretty much everything from the inside tangent point of one headlight to the other headlight, and used 1-1/4 tubing to fab up a core support and move the STOCK radiator to a diff location and a cage for the intercooler. I'm grinding on it and making it pretty right now. Pics to come!
It'll make you all cringe!
I cut the entire core support, crash bars and padding, pretty much everything from the inside tangent point of one headlight to the other headlight, and used 1-1/4 tubing to fab up a core support and move the STOCK radiator to a diff location and a cage for the intercooler. I'm grinding on it and making it pretty right now. Pics to come!
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Ummm so what is exactly going on with your build, like someone already stated your heat soaking the hell out of the inter cooler with it sitting so close to the radiator. And do you honestly have a cardboard box in your engine bay or was it just for the fab b/c in the last pic you posted it is still in there after the inter cooler is in there, just kinda confused? Are you trying to make it a bottom feeder for your inter cooler? Im just trying to see what your doing here!
For the cardboard, I hope you do the same when fitting a rad or IC. It protects the core fins until the placement and build is finalized. The thread was about fitting the FMIC, not the final product. It is removed now
Stock air dam scoops enough air in there, no need for more stuff complicating the system
Mounted mine in front of the radiator.
Tilted the radiator back a smidge, cut into the cross-brace a smidge, and then opened a chute from the front license plate to the IC.
Why you ask....because I like my foglights.
I've got a thread around here somewhere that shows pictures of it.....
Tilted the radiator back a smidge, cut into the cross-brace a smidge, and then opened a chute from the front license plate to the IC.
Why you ask....because I like my foglights.
I've got a thread around here somewhere that shows pictures of it.....
