My own intercooler and intake set up
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This is by far the best factory simulated set-up that I've seen. Mazda should be ashamed of themselves. I especially like the shorter pipes for increased throttle response and how the larger horizontally mounted IC eliminates any air restrictions after the radiator (unlike the stock and M2 designs). Nice work!
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The primary turbo gets nothing but cold air, it sits inside above the right front air dam to prevent water entry,it has the same size K+N filter with the secondary. The secondary turbo gets it share of cool air once the car is moving (removing and relocating the coolant reservoir tank created a passage of air flow staright up the K+N filter). meaning you dont need cool air for the secondaries anyway when car is starting from at stop. Yes. it is a XS power intercooler that i fabricated to form sort of a V mount set up, the radiator was not flipped, it still sits on it's stock location only lowered a bit so i can get more flow from my custom air duct for the intercooler. It also alowed me to use a regular sized battery(those small odyssey batteries never lasted) but i did had to make a custom bettery tray for it. Other than that this has been my best cool air set up and it was the cheapest i also still have my condenser. My intercooler stays cool thanks to the sealed air duct, only of course right after driving and pop the hood right away.I know it's as good as a front mount please no more debates about front mount and stock location... because I designed my car to be a street car meaning i dont have to worry about debris hitting the face of the intercooler core or having too much pressure loss. Im also able to use the factory Y pipe with this set up as seen on the pics. I hope this helps anybody with a low budget and want an efficient set up. I will try to post more pics in details for the aluminum intercooler duct, intake, and battery tray.
What size piping did you use for your intake set up?
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To allow the intake filter / piping to fit down by the front right air duct, what other stuff do you have to move around?
In my car, a touring model 93 RX7 I have a few things that block me from putting an intake down by the corner of the duct.
there is a Coolant overflow tank in the way and also a relay of some sort and some wires etc...
Are these relays just extra emmisions junk or do they server a purpose of keeping the car running ? =)
Basically in short,
just want to know what the parts are that are blocking me from doing this ...
In my car, a touring model 93 RX7 I have a few things that block me from putting an intake down by the corner of the duct.
there is a Coolant overflow tank in the way and also a relay of some sort and some wires etc...
Are these relays just extra emmisions junk or do they server a purpose of keeping the car running ? =)
Basically in short,
just want to know what the parts are that are blocking me from doing this ...
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coolant overflow tank has to go and the relays were relocated. You should be able to run the pipes then just make sure u use smaller diameter pipes i think 2.50- 2.75 (same size as the factory intake) The only problem I had a problem with this is some tire rub from my 18inch wheels in my fender liner since it bubbled up a bit.
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