shinzon
15+ Year Contributor
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- Sep 11, 2006
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St. Petersburg,
Florida
I'm been looking at my intercooler options for my '96 and I just don't like what I'd have to do to the car to make a front mount work. I don't like that I'd have to sacrifice the crash bumper and my fog lights, I don't like sacrificing serviceability by losing all the space between the turbo and the radiator to piping, nor do I like the extra bling at the front of the car. More than aesthetics and fitment, I don't like the spool penalty all the 90degree bends in the typical short route adds, and most importantly, this being a southern car that already sees ridiculous underhood temperature in the summer, I'd rather not add another airflow restriction in front of the radiator--this is a 2ga after all; we already don't have much airflow to work with.
It would seem a air/liquid intercooler would solve a lot of problems for me. It'd allow me to move away from the stock sidemount to a better cooling solution without adding an airflow restriction on the front of the car, and while keeping a keeping a mostly stock looking presentation both on the exterior and under the hood.
So where do I place it under the hood? Well, my first thought would be to mount the intercooler where the stock sidemount is located, which means I can basically keep the stock intercooler pipe routing. As for the heat exchanger, I was thinking I could remove my air conditioner condenser since the system hasn't functioned in a decade, and place it there. The electric pumps would be easy enough to mount.
Does anyone here run an air/liquid setup? Has anyone tried mounting one in this way? Can anyone think of any roadblocks I'm ignoring, or anything else I'm missing?
Thanks in advance.
It would seem a air/liquid intercooler would solve a lot of problems for me. It'd allow me to move away from the stock sidemount to a better cooling solution without adding an airflow restriction on the front of the car, and while keeping a keeping a mostly stock looking presentation both on the exterior and under the hood.
So where do I place it under the hood? Well, my first thought would be to mount the intercooler where the stock sidemount is located, which means I can basically keep the stock intercooler pipe routing. As for the heat exchanger, I was thinking I could remove my air conditioner condenser since the system hasn't functioned in a decade, and place it there. The electric pumps would be easy enough to mount.
Does anyone here run an air/liquid setup? Has anyone tried mounting one in this way? Can anyone think of any roadblocks I'm ignoring, or anything else I'm missing?
Thanks in advance.