Horizontal FMIC project
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From: Savannah, GA
I'm going to pull a necro-bump on this one. I've been running this same intercooler horizontally mounted since late 2010 on my car as seen below:
(this was unfinished, it tucked a tad higher and had metal brackets holding the front when I was done)
With the front mount turbo kit, slim fans in the stock shroud (all that could be fit) the temps weren't controllable. I fought this for a LONG time. Swapped to a larger BeCool radiator. Improved greatly, but still heated up badly running at speed/RPM's down the road, especially on the highway. Swapped from the cheap pullers to a pair of Derale pushers on the A/C Condensor. Helped a lot. Could fart around the back roads and idling all day long, but get the RPM's up over about 1800 and the temps would start to climb.
So Friday/Saturday this labor day weekend I stood my intercooler up as seen below:
This spaced it out in front of the air dam airflow area by about 4". It was an IMMEDIATE improvement in how warm the car ran. Didn't heat up at all running RPM's or at highway speeds. The ONLY time it even cracked over 190* was when I was going up a mountain and I was leaning on it a little.
The horizontal mount simply didn't work for me. Don't know if it's because it was right up against the radiator support or if it was simply not allowing airflow up and through and was diverting it all under the car instead. But standing it up, I sacrificed my fog lights (for now) but gained the ability to not have to worry about temps driving the car around anymore.
Just some feedback on doing it this way.
(this was unfinished, it tucked a tad higher and had metal brackets holding the front when I was done)
With the front mount turbo kit, slim fans in the stock shroud (all that could be fit) the temps weren't controllable. I fought this for a LONG time. Swapped to a larger BeCool radiator. Improved greatly, but still heated up badly running at speed/RPM's down the road, especially on the highway. Swapped from the cheap pullers to a pair of Derale pushers on the A/C Condensor. Helped a lot. Could fart around the back roads and idling all day long, but get the RPM's up over about 1800 and the temps would start to climb.
So Friday/Saturday this labor day weekend I stood my intercooler up as seen below:
This spaced it out in front of the air dam airflow area by about 4". It was an IMMEDIATE improvement in how warm the car ran. Didn't heat up at all running RPM's or at highway speeds. The ONLY time it even cracked over 190* was when I was going up a mountain and I was leaning on it a little.
The horizontal mount simply didn't work for me. Don't know if it's because it was right up against the radiator support or if it was simply not allowing airflow up and through and was diverting it all under the car instead. But standing it up, I sacrificed my fog lights (for now) but gained the ability to not have to worry about temps driving the car around anymore.
Just some feedback on doing it this way.
