What exactly does $2600 buy? Is it the price of intercooler and rad. and metal work? If its just metal work, someone is making some MAD dough.

 

The kit includes:

$350 Radiator
$1000 Intercooler - custom work
$350 Piping/bending
$150 Brackets
$250 (2) hours welding changing the Radiator
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~$2100 for the hardware and welding, not to mention the time to get everything together, his time and design/fitment work.
How many hours do you think it takes him to get this **** together? An hour?

And people think he's making MAD dough? Lol....

 

Pretty cool, I wanted to do something like that with my Vmount as well. Wanna help me out? haha.

 

This is not Chucks, but this is how I did mine, since a lot of people in various threads have requested pics here are mine at least. I think it works very well because it is very adjustable and I can easily install my IC and rad then push it up and into place once everything is installed to match up exactly as I wish it to. It can move front to back of the car on the support that bolts the frame and up and down with the bracket that is mounted to the isolator for the radiator.

Not the best pics but use your 3D orbiting imagination to see exactly how they hold the IC assembly up.

I don’t know about chucks but mine is isolated from solid mounts on the main supports for the radiator and has nonstructural solid “just for show really” top mounts for the IC.

I used a double male rubber isolator between 2 plates of aluminum, so just incase it should ever fail it will simply come to rest on the metal flange. Though I think with the sandwich construction it should hold nicely for years, and if it should fail the built in redundancy should take care of it until I can fix it.

HTH

 

Thanks. I have wanted to add custom ducting for a very long time and finally decided to do the project before summer ends. Even during the 100 degree fahrenheit weather, here in the Inland Empire, I still see 33-34 degree celsius air temps and 83-85 degree celsius water temps on my PFC.

 

Very nice work you have there Rotarypower101. How long did it take you to plan that out and put it all together? It looks like the process was pretty difficult.

 

It took quite awhile, but I really do love doing it, it really is a past time of mine building things and making them better (at least in my opinion )

My recommendation is if you have the time and ability and facilities to build something go ahead, it really helps put into perspective what is required to put something like Chucks Vmount together. It is not as easy as it looks and for the time and research I put into it chucks product is a steal by almost anyones standards I think. Though I would never trade the experience and things I learned from the process.

But for me I wanted a very purpose built system that chucks probably wouldn’t have facilitated without a lot of modifications, so I just made one to fit exactly how I wanted it to.

I think it turned out all right. The ducting is a little rough but I intend to make a nice piece when I get some time. Its really only functional without really a lot of visual surface area , so that’s why it hasn’t gotten priority.

 

^clean clean clean car, but man...don't rest lug nuts on your polished IC!

very nice set-up (like the wp idler!)

you can slide this entire assembly up from underneath???

so, does your RAD alomst sit horizontal?

 

You can see his rad from the first two pictures. Looks to be completely horizontal to me.

 

Can't remember where I got these but here you go....

 

The pics make it look horizontal, but it is more like a 30deg angle, it really doesn’t matter as the air is forced through the core, and temps don’t really deviate more than ~2-3deg from presets.

Latest pics of the most important part of my instillation the protection for the radiator!Still need to clean it up and powder coat but its there.

 

nice work!

 

thats some great work. I wish you lived near me. I'd love to see that in person. I always wondered if it was smart to have a bare radiator so close to the ground. How far back does that sheild go? looks like about maybe 12inches. any chance of getting and under view pic, maybe from the start of that sheild to the beginning of the subframe?

once again very nice work. i cant wait to start this project.

 

Thanks guys.

I just have to figure out the AC and I can call this whole project 99.9 % done

I have a condenser picked out, just have to get my hands on it and do a little modding to make it work for removal when I have to get back into the engine (god forbid!) and look right.

I need a 97+ or same body style mitsubishi eclipse condensor, it is just the right dimensions to fit over the radiator properly and has the correct large fin openings I would like to have.

I have one in my daily driver but I need that one (don’t think I havnt thought about it)

 

This was before the fan windows and all the bracing, but it shows the mounting points and dimensions well. I will try to get a full pic of the completed tray.

 

that really is sweet. how much did it cost for the supplies to make that? Looks like pretty thick steel.