I am trying to install this intercooler I bought off a board member. It came off of a camaro... anyway, there were some fitment issues so I dremeled off some excess metal and got the intercooler to sit in. I also MUST keep the windshield washer fluid tank because it's part of my alcohol injection system. I know that my fog lights are going to get chopped to allow airflow to the intercooler (and because I don't think that metal bumper will fit back on). But what is the best way to mount it, infront of the windshield fluid reservoir or behind it (my A/C is not in the car so it would be around where the condenser used to be).

Also, it looks like in either mounting position I will not be able to retain the metal inner bumper (you know what I'm talking about right, where the fog lights attach). Is that usually how a front mount works on our cars? I'm sure it will weaken the front end but will the front clip sag??? Also, I mocked it up with the windshield reservoir in and the intercooler in front of it. I like that way that is set up because it would have free airflow through the fog light ports with nothing to block or restrict it. If I put it in front of the radiator (how the guy I bought it from had it mounted) it would have the air dam to deflect the air onto it but the windshield reservoir is like 1 cm in front of it and I think that would pose some airflow problems. Which way is it best done? I was thinking of cutting the front license plate out and putting a screen (like Claude Silver 95 TA) so that would help if I mounted it in front of the reservoir... that is just a maybe though, it depends on how this turns out and if my IAT's are where I want them to be.

Also, what are the best mounting points. I could mount it to the lip in front of the radiator on the bottom but what about the top? All that stuff is plastic, will it hold with a bolt through it??

Anyway, this project needs to be finished in the next couple days because I need a car. Any help figuring things out would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for getting this far through the post

 

I mounted my old 3-core by using the inner holes on the frame butt. The tabs on the ATI fit almost perfect. Marc Rahn's (1st and goal) webpage covers it pretty well. He did tilt his at an angle though, something I didn't.

As for the front fascia, I removed the fog lights and closed in around the intercooler to make sure the air went through the intercooler, rather than around it. For my new Spearco, I'll be doing some modifications to the front end to accomodate more airflow.

 

Thanks

Here is the link....

www.geocities.com/marc94z/intercooler.html

Are you sticking a 2 core or 3 core in there?

My original setup (with fog lights removed but stock front facia and licence plate in stock location along with the intercooler straight up and down off the front frame rails had decent IAT temps (20* above ambient at the start of the run and add an additional 20* by the time I went through the lights at the end of the ¼ mile...so on an 80 degree day I would see 120 IAT going through the lights) but the car would get a tad warm if I tried to run the A/C so I angled it and opened up the front end and put a Stull grille in there. I don't have any IAT numbers yet as I haven't raced it.

Here is another link to how Brett did his front mount.

http://members.aol.com/eplbrc/Finished_Intercooler/

Marc

 

Thanks for the responses they were very helpful. I got mine mounted. It goes in between the radiator and the windshield washer fluid bottle. I'm going to make blockoff plates to make sure that all the air deflected by the air dam has no choice but to go through the intercooler. If I have more questions I will post again.

 

Cool. It's really not that hard to do if you can do a little fab work. The hard tubing alone is worth the switch.

I think I saw some stray printouts of Marc's webpage in the shed this morning.