The derale didnt fit up front with the headlight. I spent like $400 on the oil setup

 

racing beat doesnt even have custom oil lines to run side mount oil cooler. they have replacement SS lines for the stock oil cooler.

he probably had $200 in just the 2 lines/fittings. idk if you realize this, but that oil cooler/fan is pretty pricey.


@zenki i forgot about that with BN/lights down... i guess ill have to mess with it...maybe run it further into the front bumper and tube it up to protect it. anything is better than my jank *** oil cooler setup now.

 

Yea I thought that putting it in the bay would keep it secure, for the most part.
It would suck to have your oil cooler explode or crack while tandem/bn ripping off. A bash bar would be a great way to protect a front mount oil cooler tho, but derale wont fit there...

It would be cool to cut off the whole front end, including the firewall and tube it. Then you can mount everything where u want

 

the Racing beat replacement oil cooler lines are just earls fittings. and WAY overpriced. still they are -10. when i moved my oil cooler i actually used all the same fittings just replaced the hose with a longer one.

have you considered running a duct from the side of the main v-mount ducting just for the oil cooler?

 

Hey man where did you buy the black fittings from? I've been trying to find a good site for them and just can't seem to find a site with all the fittings. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough...

 

earls fittings has them (as you can tell by the packaging). i think they call them the elite fittings
russell
aeroquip
all these companies offer the black AN fittings, as well as nylon braided hoses

edit: you can get them all at summitracing.com, as well as most speed shops

Lloyd

 

Parker store on 36th street and Broadway

 

Heres when I did mine... First thing I did to the car.... Ha.








Heres the final Product.





I wanna get a CF vented hood and just do some pop rivet ducting on the underside of it

 

looks pretty sweet

 

Agreed. Car should be called nugs it's so dope.


Love the hood/ic setup. That's gotta work uber ****. Dimensions plz?

 

Thanks! It works real good.

The intercooler is a CXracing 25x16x4 intercooler with a 4inch core and 3inch inlet and outlet.
Hood opening is 18 wide and 12 deep
Cut the upper Rad support, welded in a front mounting bar for the IC so it sits flush to the rest of the rad support, and fabbed up a bracket for the back that holds the rear intercooler mounts and the posts on the Radiator (I flipped a CXracing FD rx7 radiator upside down) and it bolts to two of the studs that held the stock radiator.
2.5 inch pipe from the turbo to IC and 3 from IC to 75mm TB.

 

ignore the rubber strap

 

what size of rad do you guys use ? I dont have the car with me at the moment and i'm going to buy it real soon .

 

just get an S5 Koyo Radiator.

 

front mount core + vmounted looks super hammer you need to bust out the tig and flip those pipes straight and ditch those couplers so they dont die.

 

another thing , how do you block the rad's filler neck ? is there a special cap you can put there or you just weld a plate with a bleeder valve to get the air out that could get stuck there ?

Cause i'm planning on putting the S4 water pump housing so I can use the OEM S4 rad cap location

 

just leave it.

 

The isuzu npr im running has good end tanks and is oem quality...

Theyre $100

 

here is my set up.

 

i love this, i want to do a v mount setup on my supra so bad. i love the resourcefulness and ingenuity shown in this thread kudos to you all

 

i have been searching for a thread like this for like 2 weeks for ideas on how to do my v mount hopefully ill be getting started on mock up next week ill be sure to take pictures and post my progress in here

 

Awesome thread. Will be mocking mine this winter. CX or Godspeed rad and intercooler and OEM oil cooler with a secondary side mount.

Any thoughts on cutting out front fender wells and doing tube front end?

 

I didn't want to give up anything when I went v-mount; no cutting the tubular support, no hood pins, no deleting a/c or o/s. I also wanted to use the parts I already had (koyo rad, stock oil cooler, evo 8 core, greddy tb etc) This all made for a challenging experience....





The guy I was working w/ to do the welding work didn't think the fans would fit as pullers....but when there is a will, there is a way.

Used the stock diversion paneling to make some lower ducting. Since the rad sits higher (because its on top of the tubular support) the stock bumper opening is pretty much useless, thus... (see attachment)

Still working on finishing my setup (needs ducting) but it works great when moving (175-185°). I think I may need a fan(s) on the oil cooler as the temps begin to creep up while sitting in traffic (195-200+°). I am also switching to a parralell flow a/c condenser which may or may not make a difference....

 

Vmount for the FD

 

sharingan 19 I really like how you do everything, it's all done properly and the parts you use are really well thought out.