Well, Today I decided it was the day to finally install my Bigger Heat Exhanger that I have had for quite a while now. Yesterday I went to Napa to get some 1/2" NPT/ 3/4" Heater hose fittings to go into the side of the intercooler. I had made some brackets a while back for it that I thought came out pretty damn good I think, I painted them black so they wouldnt rust. And then Finally came the heater hose, Luckly, I have some 3/4" heater hose laying around work. I only used maybe 2 feet of heater hose to hook everything up. And I ran my intercooler in-line with the one that is already in the car. And if anybody is asking if my temps dropped, I really havnt done any hard pulls to figure it out, But what I did noticed it seemed to drop the temps a tad on the way home.


If anybody has any questions on anything, Please feel free to ask or PM me . Thanks and go enjoy the pics now!!


The joys of being an auto Tech, A lift to work under


The brackets that I had fabbed up and painted


Just another pic of the brackets


Here is the Intercooler before it goes into the car


Kinda gives you an idea of the brackets


Some pics of the intercooler mounted


Ground level pic of intercooler in Car


Here is the elbow that I had put in between the stock hose coming out of the stock intercooler, running a new hose into the front mount



What nobody should be without, Brakleen

 

Very nice.... clean install

 

thought u were sellin ur car......but its awesome

 

who did you buy the h/e from

 

I bought it on a group buy back in December of last year

I was, But then a couple of things popped up that I wasnt expecting

 

Bump for today

 

Looks great!!

 

damnit dude I was supposed to be part of that gb ... sigh had to save money for my house which im glad I did but ... sigh

 

niiice

 

looks good... now get a lower grille and keep the bugs out of it.

has anyone thought of upgrading the IC pump so the fluid will flow faster as well?

 

Sick Kyle! When are coming over to help me with mine. haha

Congratulations man I know you have waited long enough.
Keep us posted on how it's working out. I can't wait to see it Sept 22nd +rep for a good mod.

 

Not that i know of but I don't know if that would be good to do seeing as it takes time for the intercooler to "cool" and the faster you put it back over the cores I would think the worse. Maybe i'm wrong who knows. Just my .02

 

Thanks for the comments everybody

 

looking great!!!! cooling mods ftw! how does that top end feel now!

 

Well I havnt had a chance to do any hard pulls, Only drove home from work. I will have updates as soon as I do some pulls

 

Just a tip to anyone else doing this. It's easier to pull the line going into the "inlet" side of the intercooler pump and tap in there, then into the second H/E, from the outlet of the H/E to the inlet side of the pump. This causes the flow to go from the stock H/E, through the second H/E then through the cooling cores. From the way CTORANGESC has his done it looks like his flow is setup this way too so I'm not knocking his install but it's quite a bit easier to do this way than trying to get that line off the stock H/E as he did and put the new pieces of hose in at that point. The way I've done it used about 5' of hose.

That H/E is huge!.... compared to the cobra one. Very nice.

 

Looks awesome man. Plus rep for pics

 

Nice Now I have some insight on how to put mine on. Thanks man!!

 

Looks great man. Keep it up!

 

Yeah, You can do it with HP tuners. The pump speed increases as RPM's rise. You can make it so the pump is on full blast all of the time.

 

Again, Thanks for the comentts. It wasnt hard a t all to install, Took maybe an hour, I would recommend this mod to anybody

 

Which H/E is that? Looks real good.

 

It is pretty much a replica of the Cobalt Addiction. It was bought from a group buy and the person custom made a few of them

 

Mine looks just like that. Can't wait to get it on. I've been procrastinating!!

 

Tell me about it, I have had mine since January