Before you knock it off and crack the stock intercooler. I pulled mine off and filled the holes with JB Weld before I went to the track. Good thing too, as this may have yanked it off:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpvQEf2bSxg

It looks so much smoother on video, but it's rough on the dirt and bouncing off the curbing. I'm sure I'm breaking a GM engineer's heart by saying it, and undoing their work, but it's that or risk cracking your stock intercooler end tanks.

I'm guessing they're trying to catch water and oil condensation in here. No one's ever gonna pull it off to clean it though.

 

"****!"

Ha, ha ...it's funny now, but I bet it wasn't then.

 

hah nice

 

where the heck is this thingamagig?

 

It's sitting underneath the stock intercooler. Looks like part of it. I think it was 1 torx bolt to remove it. The other side is just hinged on.

 

Instead of removing it couldn't you use some sheet metal and connect it to the bumper and engine cradle to make something like a skid plate or is it not worth it?

 

You could do that..but with how low it is if you smack something hard enough to hit the skid plate...odds are it will crunch up and hit the condensation pipe anyways. Mine is dented slightly...glad it didn't break off

 

mine broke off of one side but suprisingly didnt crack the intercooler...it's zip tied up for now lol

 

Had to do the same thing to my car.

 

Just pull it and JB weld the openings on the one side with the torx or whatever it was. If it's zipped tied into place, it can still get hit and crack the end tanks.

 

For the love of god. Someone sticky this. People keep snapping these off every week, and risk cracking the intercooler end tanks.

 

so there is really no reason to have this on? lol. WHY GM!?

 

I understand when women pull all the way up to the curb to park, but COME ON GUYS! It's embarassing.

 

Found this..goes way back to what happened to Solstice:

That service information is for earlier build 2007 Sosltice GXPs that when driving in damp /humid weather encounter misfires and set codes on hard acceleration. Moisture gathers in the charge air cooler at idle and is ingested on hard acceleration from a stop.


Check out the pics..interesting.

This is the difference. A water trap was added on the bottom to catch condensation


http://www.solsticeforum.com/forum/f...pip4197-48039/

 

yeah but they don't have crap plastic endtanks.

 

wow, the solstice intercooler looks pretty nice.

 

Our charge piping is so damn long that I don't think it's possible to get water from condensation to go all the way back. Take your pick. Leave and risk cracking end tanks, or pull and risk having some oil/water condensation that would happen with any normal IC.

Given the two choices, I'll take the later. The stock IC really isn't as bad as most people make it out to be. It's quite efficient, and doesn't hang as low as all the damn aftermarket intercoolers made with cores meant to handle 500 hp...

 

Somebody on here had metal endtanks welded on to the factory core, but I can't remember who that was.

 

I just had an idea, cut it, like really short like to 5% or less of its normal length, pinch the end together, and then weld it, then you would keep a smaller catch can and be way less likely to smack it off anything