alright so i had this idea oh getting a t2 top mount intercooler and make it into an intake but i dont wanna waste money on buying one and then find out i cant do it
so any help or information would really help thank u in advance

 

it won't work..

 

no

 

fail for sure.

 

oh alright thanks but y not

 

For one the Throttle bodies on a N/A are reversed.So you would end up making a pipe from the Out of the Intercooler to the AFM just to join up..then you would be hooking the Other side into your Throttle body which requires 2-3 inch adapter,,really,it is just not feasable.
I suggest you look into a true cold air system.Plumb the intake to get cool air.and isolate the intake from engine bay heat.

 

what are you trying to accomplish?

 

oh alright cool this is helpful
and nothing it was just a thought something maybe new u know

 

Reminds me of a pictures thats floating around of a non turbo civic with a fmic as a intake. I actually tracked it down and the guy lost almost 40whp doing it and it was just a test . So as others have sa go turbo or true cold air. Remember cold air doesn't mean just get piping and a breatheable filter. You need a heat exchanger or some type of box to help keep hit ambient air out of it. A open filter in a engine bay is worthless compared to the Oem box intake system.

 

you do know the meshed part of an intercooler is in no way an air passage to the inlet, right? LOL

 

Did you think the intercooler would reduce the intake air temperature below that of ambient air?

 

you want a intercooler that can be used as a air filter huh? well try this...
http://probeaddiction.com/CAI.htm (The 1st pic)

with the right plumbing, this will be a good CAI

 

lol that's garbage

 

The concept is sound.

The T2 intercooler has a nicely sealed, ducted air path. You could cut the core out of the intercooler, and seal off the bottom with sheet metal. Find an air filter that fits in there.

The problem is that I can't see any way to make it work with the big NA intake. You'd need to use a turbo intake, throttle, etc, which would be a useless downgrade.

 

The concept is NOT sound. The OP has a N/A engine. The temperature of the air going into the engine can't be reduced with a turbo intercooler (or any heat exchanger) because the intercooler isn't colder than the surrounding air temperature.

If you want to hang a TMIC behind the front bumper cover that's cool. It's your car. Whatever. Don't waste your time trying to bring intake air through a turbo intercooler on a N/A engine. It will reduce intake air velocity and increase throttle response.

 

I'm pretty sure the OP just wants to use the IC as ducting for cold air from the hood vent. Not suck through an intercooler.

 

it would be better to re route the exhaust piping to bring the unburnt fuel back into the intake. the pressure the exhaust makes is like a turbo. its a cheap way to gain 100hp. you also won't need an air filter anymore since the exhaust is going directly back into the intake...........


lol

 

just do a short intake, better throttle response in theory, though i never played with NA cars too much

 

The Rx-8 has one of the best designed intake systems you will ever find on an n/a car. It has a dual-mode design that switches from a long intake pipe to a short intake pipe at high rpm. Mazda called that the Variable Fresh Air Duct (VFAD). The only thing better than that is the continuously variable intake system on Mazda's 4 rotor R26B engine from the 787B LeMans race car. Instead of having two modes, it had a wide range of possible intake lengths. The engine was peripheral ported

The problem with an intercooler on an n/a car is that you have long piping and a pressure changes across the intercooler core. It just makes the engine work harder and throws off any kind of resonance tuning.