I had a local rotorhead fab this up for me. I am not sure if he's up for more business at the moment so I am going to leave his name out of the thread unless he decides to chime in. This was no easy chore, especially for an intercooler core that is. He had to cut the end tanks, fab all the brackets and ducting, and work with a manifold that sits the turbo much further forward than the majority of the manifolds out there. This thing is solid, doesn't move in the slightest. There are not any clearance issues, all the pipes clear and do not hit anything on the body of the car. Post some feedback! Enjoy

Before:

 

Work was done by Carlos M in Tucson, AZ. He goes by the handle Ikari89 on azrx7.com - I believe he uses a similar handle here.

 

yup it was me :P

 

Nice work. I used the same intercooler and radiater on my setup.

 

Yeah I saw a pic of your engine bay, it was angled way more than mine. It looked nice though. Lots of ceramic/powder coating going on in that bay of yours.

 

are you sure thats the same intercooler? because dhahlens looks WAY thicker... i dunno maybe its just the pictures.... in fact that intercooler is by far the thickest one i have ever seen.

the one you used looks about 3 inches thick and dhahlens was at LEAST 5.

 

Be careful with angles like that into your endtanks, you may only be using a little sliver of that huge intercooler. I would turn the turbo down and get a 180 into the most back side of the bottom of the endtank. Just my .02 The reason I say so is because my buddy had this problem on the dyno with his stockmount

 

PSR?!?!! wtf..it is a RPM performance 35r setup..the wastegate is a PSR 45mm. My old setup is starting to look nice.

 

OK, I guess I have a the smaller core. Mine is about 3 inches thick. I really wasn't looking to go much over 400whp with my setup. So I figured it would suffice. It was hard to tell the thickness of the core you used. I was just generalizing.


How did you modify the radiator? Or how does the flow pattern run now?

 

Thanks, I wanted to get as much air to it as possible. Also being that it was thinner than yours, I was able to angle it more.

Actually it is just High temp paint. I didn't have the time to do anything else, when I was getting it ready for a scheduled tune by Steve Kan.

 

yeah my core is exactly 5" thick, you can only see half of it.

 

I am assuming this is what you are talking about?

Blue being current flow, red being what would be ideal?

 

Great setup!

I don't think you have to worry about where you have the pipes for the endtanks that much. When you're pushing 15 lbs of boost it will end up going to the other areas, plus the efficiency of the V-mount will come into play.

I drove mine today in 80 F degree weather and my intake temps did not go above 22 C degrees. My water wouldn't go above 80 C either. After a half hour drive home, I opened the hood and the entire IC core and outlet end tank was ice cold. The IC pipe, Greddy elbow and UIM were cool to the touch.

 

what core is it? i am trying to decide on a core size for my 20B.

 

that is exactly what im talking about, run it around for a bit and see what kind of power it makes before you start re-engineering that beast.

 

Great job!... Congratulations!...

What brand intercooler?... Where can I get one?... And, How much?

Dwayne

 

http://www.rx7store.net/product_p/apexiintercooler.htm

 

Thanks but no thanks... I just need the core or the intercooler by it self, not a kit... This will be for another application, not the FD... Any place else?

Dwayne

 

Good Luck!

APEXi no longer makes that intercooler, so they are getting harder to come by. People sell them on the forum for around 900-1100 if you can find them.

 

oh no i completely agree with what you said but the fact of that matter is/was that there just WAS NOT room for it without a 90 degree coupler which i'm not a fan of at all. when it comes down to it making it fit comes before making it perform, cause you can design it for the most power but if it doesnt fit it doesnt matter . i learned that all to well in FSAE. and i figured the effects are going to be negligible because of the high boost levels.

oh and the radiator still flows cross like it was originally designed.

 

say I were only turn 10psi, would it make a difference then?

 

Coming along nice I see. Nice setup.

 

:P not really, the hot pipe will be fine.

 

I hope it does for your sake, or I'll set you on fire =) lol - better not talk **** til i get my car back, lol

 

looks good man.