Diy intercooler piping teaser
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Diy intercooler piping teaser
so I decided that after all my lurking around the forums, that I should probably contribute something. so I decided that I am going to be taking a few photos while Im installing my intercooler piping. I have my turbo clocked straight up. I decided that I was too lazy to deal with all the shortening of cooling lines and powersteering bullshit and clocking it so I just drilled a hole in my wheel well I give credit to turbotim for the idea from his twinturbo set-up. Ill be using the existing 2 inch piping from the piece from the begi-s kit and joining it with a 2.5 inch piping all the way to the intercooler. This is still in progress I just wanted to show what I had so far. please excuse the crappy camera phone pics.
The second one is what we used to clean up the edge. its just some cut vacuum hose with weatherstriping sealer.
more pics to come
The second one is what we used to clean up the edge. its just some cut vacuum hose with weatherstriping sealer.
more pics to come
Last edited by Flawxy; 06-08-2009 at 10:00 PM. Reason: grammer
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Hey Ive never seen routing like that before, thats pretty slick
Im considering doing something kind of similar, except on an NB, so I think I can route mine down, like this:
but i suppose you cant do that due to the headlights, haha
but anyway keep up the good work and keep us posted!
Im considering doing something kind of similar, except on an NB, so I think I can route mine down, like this:
but i suppose you cant do that due to the headlights, haha
but anyway keep up the good work and keep us posted!
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I'd rather put the intake in the fender. nothing wrong with the charge pipes going straight down. When the charge pipe goes through the fender I think it severely limits your air filter placement, and forces you to use less than ideal mounting positions.
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Actually, having it tilted forward is the proper way to do it. You see most race cars with the intercoolers and radiators tilted that way.
If you think about the way the fins of the intercooler and positioned in the air, and not about the way the front "surface" is positioned, you can see that tilting the top forward may actually be better for "downforce" (or just preventing lift)
If you think about the way the fins of the intercooler and positioned in the air, and not about the way the front "surface" is positioned, you can see that tilting the top forward may actually be better for "downforce" (or just preventing lift)