i had my intercooler polished by a wheel shop back in the day, probably 4 years ago, and its taken a beating from bugs and stones and what not on the highway, that and it stuck out like a sore thumb and is an odd shape so people always commented on it, and lastly it shined really bright and it would reflect from the sun like a laser beam.

so i decided to hide it as much as i could.
check it out.

before:


Bumper is off, boost tubes are plugged

apartment has a balcony so i had to make that work with storing all my parts while i worked so no one ran away with my bumper.

you can see the intercooler all masked and roughed with sandpaper, not sure what grit, didnt really care at the time.

just supplies and additional shots of the same stuff



here is it after paint, still masked, set to dry




unmasked and looking hot, ready to install


here it is mounted up and fastened, looks fairly ok


and final pic of it installed.


comments or suggestions... its pretty straight forward, i didn't paint the core because i didnt wanna mess around with it and plus, it looks like i run a half rad or something.

so ya, i know its not the hardest thing in the world but hopefully someone will maybe gain something from it.

ps my camera is a piece of ****.

 

I wouldve painted the core too but nice job anyways.

 

Looks allot better!

 

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i would agree. I have mine all painted black.

 

nice but whats under the hood????

 

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i would agree. I have mine all painted black.</TD></TR></TABLE>


mine is all black as well. and its 33x9x3.5 lol

 

Now Thats Nice

 

Looks great.

 

looks good

I just painted my 28x7x2.5 black today. came out great. black intercoolers ftw.

 

some people complain that when you paint the core it effects the efficiency of the IC, it does, but its not enough to worry about it, imo. (if you put 8 coats on then yeah your an idiot and its going to kill efficiency)

 

I put about 2 or 3 coats on the end tanks and like 2 on the core just so it was blacker..

 

Whats in the middle blocking the IC anyways coving up the silver part? Anyways looks good. Got a IC too i wanted mine to be hard to see also.

 

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my intercooler is having no problems making 400+ hp with 3 light coats of flat black

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Whats in the middle blocking the IC anyways coving up the silver part? Anyways looks good. Got a IC too i wanted mine to be hard to see also. </TD></TR></TABLE>

i think your just seeing the middle part of the stock grill. the two holes on either side are from some japanese dude cutting up the grill for fog lights.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">nice but whats under the hood???? </TD></TR></TABLE>

dohc zc turbo, 13.8 @100mph on only 9psi
i daily it at 11psi now.
stage one million clutch unsprung, and act flywheel.
rest of the motor is stock, its been turbo'd since about 1999 with the same imported zc motor daily driven. no tuning, only safc hack and 450cc inj's

 

Did you scuff up the aluminum? If not, there's a good chance the paint will start flaking off wherever any new bug or rock hit it.

Other than that, looks better. But that is an odd fmic, not the typical thin, high frontal area prefered today. Had to comment