Went to mount intecooler today, hacked the bumper core and squeezed the cooler as far back as I could.

The driver side seems easy enough by travelling through the stock intake hole, the passenger side pretty much stumps me though. How did you guys run it? Im running 2.5" piping. 88 Crx Si, dont mind clocking my turbo but have limited ammouns of pipe and want to keep the coupler number as low as possible

Thanks

 

It needs to be run up through the whole where an A/C unit is connected. Remove that and widen the hole and you have that to go through.

 

Dont have a/c, never have, but didnt see any hole anywhere

 

you will have to remove the windsheild washer fluid resivor I think

or if possible weld an inlet going 90 into the intercooler backdoor style, saves a lot of piping

 

the piece off the turbo.....





the front view....










all of it is for sale

 

I already have my bent piping and I already have my 31" long intercooler

 

i ran mine through the windshield squirter tank hole. (no washer any more)

 

How did you mount your IC? I am running a 31" as well (31x12x3.5) and can NOT get it to fit behind the bumper.

 

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i hace a 31x9x3 and i had to lose most of my bumper support, 12" is going to be tuff.

 

Here is my setup, which is possibly as short as you can get the charge pipes to be without mounting the IC up near the original battery location. Although I get a sharp 90 degree turn at the inlet of the IC, I think the overall low volume of the system makes up for it with increased responce with only minimal effect on the velocity. I'm currently working on a new IC design that will maintain the short pipes(smaller volume) that will use a verticle row 6" x 25" core to help keep preasure loss very low and more effecient cooling. As a plus, it should fit the bumper much better to utilize the ambient air flow over the entire exposed surface area.

 

I took out the entire bumper support the way I figure it is that if I get into a head on collision the care is going to turn into a soda can.

 

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if the accident is serous enough, the bumper support is not going to do ****, that was my reasoning

 

pretty much!

 

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Yeah, just consider your new intercooler as part of the crumple zone!

 

lol

 

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IDB...i mean back door!

 

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those bars are designed for impact speeds of less than 15mph.

 

the fmic is a better bumper support over 15mph.

 

I like the design thats posted above, cheap to, but I dont want to reweld my intercooler and Ive got the piping so why not use it.

I just dont get how you go form the turbo to outside and behind the washer bottle, maybe I should just remove it eh? Who gives a expletive type of deal, daily driver though...........

 

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I just dont get how you go form the turbo to outside and behind the washer bottle, maybe I should just remove it eh? Who gives a expletive type of deal, daily driver though...........</TD></TR></TABLE>
how much clearer can it be? it shows it very well in this pic!

 

Yeah but thats not possible without removing the washer fluid bottle completely

 

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just relocate the washer bottle

 

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I didnt think it was that hard................

 

Is there a way to do it without removing the bottle?

 

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i give up...................................