thats nice ......i was thinking about making a new undertray with, aluminum sheet or stainless

brad

 

Yep, staying sequential.

 

Chris is in Hercules (sicminded), but yeah I saw some posts associating him with you. Car has been very good to me.

-Andy

 

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...7&page=2&pp=15
Here's a link to 20B v-mount pics

 

It was mentioned in one of the previous pages but no one commented, how come people don't put the IC on the bottom and rad on top? is there any reason for this? as mentioned before, you can drive with a damaes IC but not with a broken rad. thanks for your help.
BTW, black93RX7, did you do the 20b yourself, or was it done in Calgary? I live in calgary 1/2 the year. thanks for sharing

 

Usually its best to have shorter ic pipes, less pressure drop and the fewer the bends the better.

I did the 20B in Calgary, the v-mount was done in winnipeg, use to have a fmic setup.

 

nice v-mount's guys.

donz - i think you missed a few post.

 

My fairly simple FMIC to V-mount set up. As you can see with the new bumper some more modifications will need to be made. It did look good stock...





ewww...

 

I looked throught the whole post again, and Hedgehog has that setup from page 3, one guy said it doesn't matter, but nobody else said anything else.

One problem that comes to mind is that the Rad transfers much more heat than the IC would, and thus would be heating the engine bay more, as compared to haveing it vented out the bottom. Only because I assume the coolant is hotter than air, but I don't know for sure, with a vented hood, may be less of a problem.
I don't know, I'll search now, if you know it's answered in another post please explain. thanks.

 

As mentioned, shorter IC pipes, but look closer at the setup above. The radiator is blowing all of the hot air right into the engine bay and onto the air filter. It looks like he has a vented hood, so if the car is moving it shouldn't be that big of an issue.

 

I need some help can someone tell me what radiator to get??? I need one where the inlet and the outlet are on the same side. When I moved the radiator the hose comes down way too low with the burnout bumper. Suggestions please....

 

^^Thats the tricky part. The intercooler is easy.

Google custom radiator and start making calls. PM me over the weekend if you still need help.

 

That's incredible! Why did you do the oil cooler fittings on the bottom though?

 

Aww schucks...and thx! :blush

I put the fittings on the bottom so that if I ever needed to completely flush the oil from the system, I can easily drain the coolers. Otherwise there's always some oil left in the cores. Oh, and prolly less chance of sediments collected in the core too.

 

personally dont think its a good idea to place it on the bottom...
ive already seen what a simple tap can do to those fittings during autocross....

 

Just asking again if anyone can lead me in the right direction for a new radiator

 

fwiw, i've been running a "custom" vmount setup without an undertray and never have had a problem with temps..... its been rock steady in all circumstances short of roadracing (the only thing i've really yet to do with the car in its current form )

 

^ ummm?

I need some help.... can someone tell me what radiator to get??? I need one where the inlet and the outlet are on the same side. When I moved the radiator the hose comes down wayyy too low with the burnout bumper. Suggestions please....


pic above

 

Buy a Koyo or something else, cut off the inlet pipes and relocate them towards the waterpump. The shorter the hoses the better and upward facing to avoid being ripped off from road debris.

 

mine is like this too I just don't follow what your saying

 

^^^ thats the Mazdaspeed/Ron Davis radiator.... the inlet/outlet sucks for Vmount... but its a awsome radiator..

any suggestions on what do to with the the MS/Ron Davis rad for vmount?

 

still kinda new and always learnin ..do you or should u have a single turbo set up to run v?and if you fab ur own adjust brackets is it still 2+k..thanks ... the pics are great not goin out drinkin now so i can save.v mount all the way..

 

I don't speak Irish.
But from what I could understand, you do not need a single to run a V-mount by any means.

 

Bump, and jumping on. Great thread.

 

It can be done. Got to get creative with the mounting brackets. Search for an old thread from Cossie. He used the HKS v-mount kit which re-used the stock rad re-mounted for use as a v-mount with some new hoses. He had posted some good pics which I can't find right now.