turbo-polak

i had planned on re-wiring the whole car with a friend... making the engine bay extremely clean with little to no wiring... but i realize i dont want to do all that work and put all that time into it

so here it is as of tonight:

stripped interior, chissled off all of the sound deadening tar in the interior...i will be keeping all the heating elements...( it gets cold sometimes here in canada )

the microtech that is going in will be installed as clean as possible, as well as the Drivers side harness will be pulled apart and all unecessary (sp?) wires will be taken out to make the harness smaller...

having a clean engine bay is as important to me as having a clean exterior


i had originally planned to just go with a front mount (r32 gtr fmic is what i got for $100) but then after a little experiementing with a friend, decided to go with a v-mount... very simple... and make a splitter for the air as well as making sure all the air will be directed to the rad/oil cooler/intercooler by blocking off holes and such with foam..

also, there was a bunch of rust under where the battery used to sit from acid i guess so i started to grind it off... i dont know how i will be respraying it yet, as i have no bodywork experience


still to come are coilovers, hybrid, microtech lt-8, seats, and wheels..

let me know what you guys think!

classicauto

iTrader: (3)

nice little project....

is that the final position of the intercooler?if so - then its not really a V-Mount setup

a true V-mount setup not only has the benefit of not starving the rad for air (like an FMIC will do) but also the intercooler is traditonally placed on top of the rad...and the rad layed back and down....this allows for VERY short shot pipes approx. 10-12 inches meaning a BIG improvment in boost response.

what you have there looks like a funny FMIC....

not to bash or anything - don't take it that way - im just commenting

turbo-polak

well it is a v-mount, but with the IC laying flat instead of the radiator.......

ive heard a couple times that laying the rad flat doesnt cool as good as having it as vertical as possible.... but maybe thats false..


basically, i just didnt want the radiators air being hogged by having a fmic

snowball

i dont think it will cool to well, theirs no air running through it it just runs around it.

p4nc7

iTrader: (1)

Unless he were to run some ducts. But that's a different story.

classicauto

iTrader: (3)

in the v mounts I have seen on FC's at Boost Motorsports you don't have to lay the rad FLAT...just nearly flat due to its height.

You need to trim the tabs on the later brace that the oil cooler bolts to in order to wedge the rad underneath it....then put new tabs on the TOP of the brace to hold the oil cooler in the center of the V. There is also much trimming and fab to do to the original rad mount...since you have to box both sides of the V in so that the air is forced through the IC and the rad....not to mention building a custom vented hood so the air can pass completely through the intercooler and out....

but what you have will PROBABLY work without too much difficulty

I would advise though trying to angle that intercooler more so than is in the pictures since I can pretty much garuntee you that without special ducting to direct air through its core - you will no doubt just have a fancy looking frying pan under there

but nice progress and interesting new ideas man - keep it up!!

turbo-polak

i will be doing this to the best of what i think will work...

u guys dont think it will work well?

IaMtHeRuThLeSs1

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turbo-polak

ya...i might consider bringing the front down a little more... the back of the IC cant go up anymore... at least not without moving the rad and oil cooler...

it isnt as flat as it seems in the pictures...

also, if i keep it the way it is, i will be making a splitter for the air...

but im not 100% on that idea yet.......


a local FD made 650whp with this kind of set up.... with professional fabrication of the splitter and belly pan...

fastrotaries

I have the Greddy Vspec and it's a beefy front mount. What I did for cooling is just get a HUGE radiator. I have the K2RD 3 row, dual crossflow. I romp on it all day long and it never goes above 180*F, @ hwy speeds it's around 168*F. Just suggesting another alternative. I think your design will work, just don't forget to vent it the bottom.

Rotortuner

You wanna see huge. Four 1 inch tube. double pass. 4.5 inch thick core. will hold almost 2 gallons of evans NPG. this is what it take to cool a 500hp road race 7. came off of a bush series car. Sometimes rednecks know what it takes to cool a car.

CJG