I'm almost thinking about making these and selling them, but they actually took a decent amount of time to make! Probably about 8 hours labor. Of course I made them at work on the clock, lol, actually mostly at lunch time.

Basically I used 2024-T3 aluminum , .063 thickness, with a .063" reinforcing angle. .1875 radius bends, and .25 corner radius at all corners. I riveted a reinforcement angle at the bend/weight bearing section with NAS1097AD4-5 aluminum rivets.

I even had one of the stress engineers at work run some numbers on it for me!! hahhah. The engineers at my job are really cool.


Pic of them cut in the raw, no paint, no metal prep, freshly bent:



and a top view



And I used 1/8inch neoprene to cushion the metal to metal contact points:




And here they are painted:



Mounted the cobra h/e.....fit PERFECT!





What do you think guys? I know it took a lot of time to make, but I did it at work so it doesn't really count

 

how much for a set?? unpainted

 

installed pics will follow tommorow


btw, I'm a aircraft sheet metal fabricator for a local corporate/business jet facility.


Not sure, I would have to think about that............

Oh and DID make my own set of blueprints for these puppies so that I could make some more if they fit good

 

let me know ill take a set

 

those look awesome... seriously pricing or even ill take the blueprints and get them made myself lol

 

Hrmm......just went to the b-woody website, he wants $60 for those monstrosities, and I'm pretty sure these fit better and they are much lighter Maybe $35? Thats like almost half his price. Before everybody goes and tells me they want a set though...............it'll take me at least a few days to make each set, I can only make them after hours or during lunch.......I really gotta think about this, didn't realize a bunch of people would want these!

I'll upload some mounted pictures tommorow and you guys can get a better view of them in use.

 

Looks good. I took the cheap way out and bought a large flat piece of metal and lined it up and then drilled self tapping screws thru the top of the heat of exchanger holding the metal to the HE and then self screwing into the front bumper and it works great. Cheap to do and cost me 8 bucks for the metal and screws. So you don't even see the bracket at all.

 

i had this on the cobalt...its nice.

 

I will take a set. Very nice fab work compucarnut. Oh I am not kidding I want a set.

 

very nice job

 

good work dude.

 

DIBS ON THE FIRST SET!! pm me paypal addy and ill send the moolah

 

I'd be down for a set too!

 

Much better design then the bwuudy brackets.

 

Do it. Make them. Do it. Do it.

 

Can I make one simple suggestion?

I had a Cobra (Garrett) HE and the two things I dislike about it when using bwuudy brackets are:

1. The bwuudy brackets blocked some of the cooling fins.
You have that covered so Great Job!

2. When hanging the Garrett HE with the bwoody brackets the HE is mounted right under the bumper away from the radiator. So it just sort of hangs out in the middle of no where. I would prefer if the HE was mount flush against the stock radiator. Or as close as you can get it without rubbing.

The Garrett HE works great when the car is moving because it is getting a lot of fresh air passing through it. But when the car is stopped the HE is not getting any air and there for is not cooling anything. So your IAT2 temps will rise from heat soak in the engine bay when stopped instead of decreasing like you would want them to.

To get an idea of what I am talking about place your hand on the radiator when the car is running and the fan is on. You will be able to feel the air being pulled past your hand.

If the HE was mounted against the stock radiator it would benefit from the car's cooling fans which would pull fresh air through the HE even when the car is stopped. That is much better for city (stop and go) driving and stagging at the track.

If I were you I would change the layout of your brackets so they extend to the front of the HE instead of to the sides. Then the HE could be mounted as close to the radiator as possible.

 

Only problem is that if I had designed them like that, then the heater hoses would have to run backwards towards the front of the car first, then go back around towards the engine bay...........right? Also, I would think having the h/e seperated from the radiator/condenser/ect would make it run much cooler given that it has airflow. My solution was to mount a very small fan behind the h/e.........but I haven't done that yet so I have no proof. I'm going to buy that damn expensive interceptor gauge and see how much my temps drop from my cobra h/e and a very small fan (maybe like 2-3 large computer fans). I'll bet the temps drop at idle instead of rise, and continue running cooler as the car gets moving.

 

True. What is the problem with that?





Maybe when the car is moving but when the car is stopped there is NO air moving between the fins in the HE.

That would probably work. They sell 6" fans on ebay pretty cheap. Mount 3 of them side by side to cover the entire HE.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/6-Uni...spagenameZWDVW

With the fans the temps will probably drop. But I dont think adding fans is the solution because you will be adding to the cost of the setup.

 

very nice looks clean

 

Not the best picture, but here it is installed. I managed to re-use the cobra 90 degree aluminum tube bends and a few of the PITA compression clamps, and I made the install look FACTORY. I'll have to take some under car pictures later. Looks very very factory.

 

Looks good. How much would you sell the brackets for?

 

r u selling these? i just snapped my bwoody brackets and need replacements asap!!