Got this baby fabbed up at the beginning of last week. I have no tig welder and can't weld with one anyhow so I had Translam (jay) do all the welding and fab work, he's got a cool little tuner shop up in Kingston Ontario where I goto school. Good guy, nice work. This will be the only thing anyone else will be doing for me so this should deffinately be a budget build.

This is 3 saab 900 intercooler cores welded side to side and made into a vertical flow intercooler. Each core is about 9.5 inches square. two 2 1/4 inch inlets at the bottom, one per turbo and a single 3 inch outlet.

This same design idea (using the three saab 900 intercoolers) is on an F150 with twin 60/48s putting down 550hp to the rears so it should flow about what i want it to. My project will be a protopline headed 350 with twin 60/63s

I don't have a pic of the completed cooler with the 3inch outlet installed but its on the top, opposite the angled area and will exit right behind my headlights on whichever side seems to fit best for me.



sorry about the amazingly large pics but i was too lazy to cut them down

 

Nice work!! That turned out really nice!

Good job guys!

 

Looks great man! Get some more pics of it installed if you can.

 

thanks guys.

Since taking the measurements and making it, i haven't had a chance to test fit it. I'm going to need to modify the brace underneath the nose that supports the hood latch catch before i can do that. Maybe today though.

 

Here are some finished pictures of the IC. jay droped by today to mock it up on my car since the front end is off.





will post some mocked up one later

 

Call me silly, but I have a (probably stupid) question. Which way does the air flow? Does it go in the top and left bottom then flow out the bottom right, or something else? I just want to know because I'm thinking of turbocharging my car and was wondering on an intercooler. Thanks.

 

two 2.25's in the bottom either side, then single out the top 3"...

 

Sweet intercooler. I love to see a real FMIC on a thirdgen. Its cool guys are figuring out ways to do it economically. BTW, approx how much green do you have into it?

Its got to flow alot better than my twin ford probe intercoolers too. They only have 1 7/8" inlets and outlets.

 

I got those three cores in an ebay auction. $75 plus shipping which ended up totaling to about $100.

Jay charged me about $125 US to put it together.

So i've got $225 in the whole thing. Not bad considering a Spearco core of the same size is about 300 bucks by itself.