on my 87 gxl
i got the stock turbo
n wat brand should i buy??
3 row or 2 row??
and um...how long would it take to install it??
aight thnx

 

sure why not.... wont be much in the way of gains on a near stock car.

 

There are so many intercooler choices it's impossible to tell you what to buy and how long it takes. Based on the question though, it looks like any fab it yourself projects aren't an option. So your best bet is the Greddy cooler, 2 row for the stock turbo or the bigger if you plan on upgrading in the future. It's basically a bolt on with some minor cutting.

 

Sorry... but GXL's came with turbos?!?! you did a Turbo swap on your gxl you mean?

 

hey thnx guys but... u mean i can puta intercooler with the same piping the car coms with from the factory??
lol im asking all these q's cuz i just got my rx july 3rd... its my second rx
im only 15 n just started my little part time
im investing ne muny i get to get my car up to .. well racing aplication... so i really apreciate ne info i get
ok thnx again.. alott!!!

 

wow more kids starting to race with rx7s....what a surprise...........first problem- you cannot just throw a turbo and intercooler onto a stock GXL there are many threads and many websites about how to swap the stock engine to a nice turboII engine

 

not to sound like an ***.. but are you sure its turbo? you say its a gxl, so was a turbo motor swapped in?

 

well if he says he has the stock turbo that means that it is a gxl to TII conversion or he doesn't know what he has lol

 

well, more times than not.. they buy a car from someone who says "its a turbo", and the poor kid doesnt know any better! ive witnessed it first hand! he argued w/ me for 10 minutes saying his fc was turboed, so i told him to point the turbo out for me... he said the guy he bought it from said it was tucked under the firewall, and would have to jack up the car to show me...lololol ... thats when i pulled out HIS haynes manuel he had on the passenger seat, and showed him the manifold differences he wasnt too happy... but i was laughing histeically for days

 

oh man i wish i coulda been there to see the look on his face vipers lol

 

lol the previous owner him on the face, mother fuc*** sold the car to the guy and he move so far that when the kid figured that it wasn't turbo the previous owner was 10 states far away so the kid couldn't ask him for a refund lol lol. the sad thing is, that when someone don't know anything about cars they stick with what the owners tells them and many times the owner tells lies to sell the car. but that story is incredible a turbo under the firewall .

 

lol na its probaly nota gxl then...
but its defiantly a turbo 2
na man no conversions just came that way from he factory... lol

 

pretty sure it's nah, how are you mistaking it for a gxl if you know it came that way from the factory?

 

So it's probably not a GXL? That makes it a Turbo II?

Does it have an intercooler on the top of the motor? Does the VIN # start out JM1FC332 or JM1FC331? Does your gauge cluster have a boost gauge in the lower left corner? Does it say "TURBO II" or "GXL" on the front fenders?

And also, just a FYI, when using words like "put," "not," or "fit," followed by the letter "a" they do not become one word such as "nota," "puta," or "fita." If this is how you understand the language than you will have a hell of a time reading the FSM, Haynes, or even this site when it comes time to work on your car. Good luck.

 

Anyways, any proper sized intercooler will work. I just scored on a Trust FMIC the other day for 90 bux, woot.

 

did you get it @ ss9? i was talking to someone who bought a trust intercooler off of funkspectrum... lol, was it you?

 

tee hee...had to sell the trust intercooler to make rent!

and to make way for a different FMIC setup...

 

i assuming you have tii because of your profile. Well How high are you boosting, and are you running stock turbo? Also yes you can put aftermarket IC on.
I know
HKS makes FMIC
Greddy does too
ARC use to make a TMIC

 

 

15 and on the second FC?


to answer your question. dont bother with it. bring a bag of ice to the track to cool it down between runs.

if your heart is set on FMIC, get the stock FMIC from a Conquest/Starion with the factory mouting tabs too. Easy as hell to mount. piping requires work.

 

my car ses turbo 2 on the fender