Intercooler, SRT-4 FMIC Options

[afroman]

I was wondering if anyone has had any experience using an srt-4 intercooler or knows of anyone that has. i was looking around and in a previous thread neverstop said that the srt-4 intercooler fits. i never found out how well it worked. i found one on the srtforums for 125 shipped. im wondering if its a good deal or if i might need something bigger. Hopefully goin to do a 2g 3s swap. if you want post where you got your intercooler and what size it is. Any feed back is appreciated.
-Aaron-

[NEVERSTOP]

true, but NEVERSTOP cut a lot, looks like a lot more than needed to fit the piping through. Smaller holes would OK for structural integrity.

The hole really arnt that big, I cut out extra so I wouldn't cut into my cuplers during install or afterwords if there was any flex in the IC pipes. I was carful to only cut the sheet metal and not the ends where there is the stronger renforced metal structure

Not tryin to argue with ya playr but I gotta disagree with ya on this one I don't think it affects the structual integraty (sp? ) at all... or at least enuf to make a difference, I say this because I rearend someone after mounting the intercooler in there and that area was perfectly fine after the crash and still is. I also shaved off about 6' of intercooler piping using the SRT4 intercooler. the only down fall is the oval shapped inlet, its also at a wierd angle but it worked perfectly for me on the exhaust side of the intercooler. just had to relocate some stuff to make it work. I would suggest the SRT4 intercooler for two main reasons:

1: it was made by a MAJOR automotive company, or at least subcontracted.. ether way you know it's produced to at least semi high standards

2: it reduces the amount of piping needed by almost HALF - and thats a great benift! I will snap a few pics of how I intend to run the piping on the celi here pretty soon if I can get the digi to work right.... otherwise here are some pics of the install of the srt4 intercooler

there are other benifits to the SRT4 intercooler like being able to keep the stock foglights (some cutting required on brackets though), plus it fits into the stock 96+ bumper nicely, did have to trim a little and I removed the TEETH of the grill it improve looks but that took under 30mins to do, overall about a 4 on install difficulty

as for the ebay bar and fin type intercoolers... I had one and while it was not a bad intercooler by any means, it wasnt really what I had expected quality wise when I got mine, the finish was terrible on it and the fins where pretty weak. but thats just my opinon on it

FMIC assembly prior to mounting


This is the opening on the hot side/passenger side


This is the opening on the cold side/driver side. I did have an issue with the AC canister, it was easily relocated a few inches back. However I have now decided I am just gonna remove the AC system all together, I never really use it and hell I'll pick up a few extra HP with it gone


This is the AC canister post relocation... I think would have to double check its been a while since I moved it but pretty sure it used to mount into the other hole you can see a few inches to the right