I am going to turbo my sohc vtec in my 91 hatch. what is the best, small intercooler for me to buy? is the jrc 6" good or should I be looking at something else? I don't want to modify or cut up my bumper I want it to basically sit behind all of that without having to cut much. Thanks.

 

Wouldn't it be dependent on the kind of turbo your looking at choosing?

 

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it does depend on boost level and power, but most common size is 22x9x3

 

thanks guys, it will probably be a t25 running between 6-8psi tuned. not much I want it to be like a factory turbo car, but I want a fmic because I plan on buying everything new.

 

you don't need 22x9x3 for t25 with 6-8psi, you want a lot smaller IC than this

 

I would still put on a 22x9x3 for room of upgrades, yes it will make it a little more laggy, but anything smaller just limits you to a base kit. Plus they look funny in the front of the car.

 

thanks guys, if I were to use a smaller one what would be the size? I really doubt I will boost anymore than 6-8 psi. I know people always say that, but this is just a fun car for me to drive sometimes, I plan on having it resprayed to look new but the car is basically mint

 

next most common size 18x9x2.5

 

We are using are own, smaller one and we got it to fit behind an ef bumper, no cutting of the bumper grill. Will have some pics next week sometimes.

http://rcautoworks.com/index.p...Id=18

 

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i want to see pics of that because a friend of mine has the same size intercooler on his ef hatch with mugen style front bumper and it hangs out 2"-3".

 

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i want to see pics of that because a friend of mine has the same size intercooler on his ef hatch with mugen style front bumper and it hangs out 2"-3".</TD></TR></TABLE>

I'll get pics as soon as we remount the bumper. We have it on our camera phone but the pic is not that great. We did have to loose the bumper support, but it fits nicely back there and barely can be seen. If painted black it would be stealth.

 

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I'll get pics as soon as we remount the bumper. We have it on our camera phone but the pic is not that great. We did have to loose the bumper support, but it fits nicely back there and barely can be seen. If painted black it would be stealth.</TD></TR></TABLE>is this on a street on a street car?

 

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I think you ment street car, yes it is. It has the bumper support its just cut. I don't think we lost it actually, the other guy working here mounted it, I'll talk to him tomorrow but I think he just cut it to get it to fit.

 

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I think you ment street car, yes it is. It has the bumper support its just cut. I don't think we lost it actually, the other guy working here mounted it, I'll talk to him tomorrow but I think he just cut it to get it to fit. </TD></TR></TABLE>yes i did mean street car and to you guys for getting that monster fit.lol

 

This is the one we used, not the bigger one pictured on our site. I'll get pics soon for you guys

 

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o yea that is not the one i'm talking about.lol

 

please get pics, and if everything goes through I will be ordering one

 

We've done plenty of these for the 88-91, by far the easiest fit w/ the least amount of work. Old pic, same size on both cars, both have stock supports, uncut.

 

that is the one I will go with. check your pms

 

So the one you used on the EF is the 31-8-3? Any pictures of the one sitting back in with the front grill not cut?

 

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The one we used is, yes. The outer portion of the grill is uncut so it looks stock from the outside, you do have to trim a little bit of the bumper to fit. When the bumper is on though is looks stock. I'll get pics today and upload them tonight on my home pc. So I should have them around 9 tonight

 

Here we go guys, we put the bumper on just to take some pics for this thread.







http://www.RCautoworks.com

 

wow it looks really good. Definately going to be getting one of these when i start piecing everything together.