does anyone know anything about this? i talked to a guy who i mite buy a tII from and he told me the top mount intercooler was relocated to under the engine or something... ive never heard of this and was just wondering what you guys know.

 

i higly doubt that. since if the IC is on the bottem of the car don't you think when it rains the IC would be wet from the water + sucking it up? It could be FMIC. If it is relocated at the bottem, then just make it FMIC

 

We will start with relocation. Yes you can easily relocate the sock TMIC, where well that’s the question now isn't it. You can simply unbolt it run new pipes and move it as a FMIC, that is fine. Or anywhere that gets forced air passing through it. The stock top setup is perfectly good for a stock TII. The air is forced through the scoop and through the IC. The down side is the motor can cause the IC to become heat soaked and become insufficient at dispersing the charged air. Now if we moved it under the car, wtf, under the car well where are we pushing air through now? There is no room under there as well. Out side of the belly pan will scrape it on the road. What ells is down there well on top of the pan there is some stuff like a sway bar and steering rack, but wait where do we get air passing from? I dunno. Now in front ahhh that’s a good place now huu. So I think you can take this and decide wtf is up with this story on your own.

Second getting wet and all. Well that’s a good thing :-) Same concept as water spray but Mother Nature doing it for you :-) on rainy days. Basically water is a great dissipater of heat, thus causing the IC to not become as heat soaked form the charged air resulting in a much more efficient rate of cooling. Lowering intake charges thus lowering the thresh hold of detonation and increasing HP .12% per degree in F.

Next the IC cold never suck up water, why. Well it is a sealed system. The air is metered and sealed thus creating boost under pressure. If the system was unsealed it could never be pressurized and only operate at ambient pressure or 0InHg. Basically it disperses air through its fin design allowing colder air that is not charged to pass through the aluminum fins that are heating up from the charged air thus resulting in lowering the air temperature coming out of the IC, creating lower temps into the motor.

 

By the time you go through all the trouble, you could've gotten a large core to stuff up front.
eBay has a TON of cheaper IC cores that are reasonably efficient.


-Ted