LEX_MAN

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Great minds think alike

BattleVer

I'm still thinking about doing that.


Mishimoto sent me one intercooler, I took a look at it and was like, its too small. Emailed them back and asked if it was possible to get another one. "What for" they ask. "I'm going to try and double it up, looks too small for 1000hp, I'll show pics, I promise", Mishimoto "Ok, send Alex one more." So they sent me another intercooler, this time in black.

So, which way to make this thing bigger, was thinking first of making it double thick, put one infront the other since alot of the supra's run like 4" thick cores. Then thought of going double as long since the front of the car is so wide, problem was the frame rails are a bit low and would have to cut those out. Then was thinking of making it double tall, like the size of the rad. Then a friend was like "just make it taller" so yeah, here is how it went.

start with 2 intercoolers...




Cut the end tanks off the black one.



Pic of the inside...



Then trimed the black one up the the first core area. Cut the other end tanks but left the hose ends still on it. Then measured how much space I had in the front of the car and took a chunk out of the aluminum core. You can see it sitting up there by itself, and welded up the corners.



As you can see, its now the full height of the rad, kinda like diesel truck style. Still need to trim down a few things like that hood latch area and the high beams, then it will be nice and tight in there.



I just hope there will be enough clean air to keep the water temp down now that I filled alot of it up with this thing. Still need to finish up the end tanks but probably do that when its time for the pipeing.



Thanks Mishimoto!

rwdanthony

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i think you should, you can also mount the fuel cell lower if you just make it how you want. but you would have to throw in some reinforcements as you might lose some chassis rigidy from losing the 3-dimensional layout structure in that area.

cazman

I used to use an 800x300x100mm core (im aussie so its in mm haha)
I did an under the headlight conversion on both sides which Ive never seen before too. The stock setup is terrible. Any plans on what your doing with yours?

I had overheating problems too, no bonnet vent. I used a few thermo probes and concluded the cooler was just blocking too much air, So i changed my setup earlier this year.

Cooler was great though

BattleVer

Caz, what rad did you have?

cazman

an ebay china one, I think it was 700x330x32mm
I am now using a much thicker PWR one.

I dont ave many installed pics of it now, its in the bin



I am now running this puppy, a simple 22x19x2.36" V8 style PWR radiator

ucfa4

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Nice build now lets see it drift. I like the fact that you did it right.

TheKevin

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i just went thorugh all 16 pages. very nice build!

GZZ-TT

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Alex, gonna paint that intercooler one color or leave it as is Black/Metal?

vinh

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nice job on the intercooler!! I've only seen one other car do something like that and it's this car

BattleVer

Thats a cool double long setup.

Uzz, I dont know yet if I should black the whole intercooler out. When you put the bumper on, you only see the aluminum part really.

Picked up the brakes today from Rotora and did a quick test fit.



Then helped the guys clean shop at G-Dimension. Having a garage sale this weekend (4/25 and 4/26) from about 10 am till about 5. Tons of sr20det parts and a bunch of random things. I'll be there on sat for sure, dont know about sunday yet. If your not doing anything and want to check out the car, the address is 817 lawson st, 91748.

TougeSC3

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Alex something tells me you are gonna run into a lot of heating problems with that setup. That custom intercooler is gonna be way to tall and create a lot of lag on whatever turbo you plan on using to make 1K horses. Especially if the car is gonna be sideways 95% of the time you might want to reconsider your setup. Did Mishimoto not have a thicker/ want to send you a thicker intercooler? Hell you might have been alright with the original one.

GZZ-TT

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If you made the high beam holes into air intakes you'd have some much needed flow.*

Biggu

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Alex, i dont think you will have much termal issues with water temp. Drifting my car yesterday at 87 degrees outside with my stock radiator and stanza fans my temp never raised one bit. granted your making more power then me but i dont think you will have a issue one bit.

BattleVer

The only way we are going to know if this setup is going to work is to get the car done and simply test it and see how the temps end up. I can always redo the intercooler, thats not much of a problem.