Another Intercooler Thread

[Mickyb]

As the description states, I am after an intercooler to suit a R33 Sedan that does not require the cutting of a hole under the battery tray. I am fairly new to the Skyline scene, but I believe that the ARC and Blitz kits do not require cutting, are there any others?

If it is out of the blitz and the arc, what would people recommend, as they are a similar price.

[`nigno]

I would recommend the Blitz LM kit... or the older style Trust kits as both sets of piping goes through the turbo side of the car, meaning you do not require to cut a hole beneath the battery tray, the piping then wraps over the engine to your intake manifold.

Its a slightly longer piping path but its much of a muchness really and a hell of a lot easier to install.

Keep in mind any intercooler kit with both of the intercooler outlets facing the same way (meaning the piping sort of wraps under the cooler for your intake side) will work in the same way so you are not limited to just ARC or Blitz there are a lot of kits out there that offer this configuration.

Example pics:

A kit like this means cutting your battery tray.

That is my actual engine bay see how both sets of piping come through the turbo side of the engine bay?

And there is the cooler configuration apologies for the crappy quality phone pic

The blue goes to the plenum etc, the red to the turbo, notice how the blue sides outlet on the cooler faces down and back towards the turbo side of the engine bay... thats what your looking for

Hopefully that helps you out, and helps me out... coz the bitches are gonna FLOCK to me once they see my l337 mspaint skillz0rz hahahaha

[Mickyb]

Thanks heaps Benigno, I assume you had some custom piping made up for that one?

Very nice setup you got going there.

[shonen]

ARC all the way.............BEST Japanese cooler you can buy

But like mentioned above there are other Japanese brands with this configuration, ie Trust, Blitz LM and im not sure if the HKS one is like that for the 33s...it is for the 34s though

[mad082]

if you go the trust or blitz setup, don't set it up like benigno. you want the pipe that goes under the cooler to be the hot pipe, and the short pipe to be the cold pipe. you want the cold air to have the shortest possible path so it doesn't have time to heat up again.

also since cold air is denser, if the cold pipe is longer it will have more lag, since it takes more air to fill up the extra length of pipe.

[Munkyb0y]

are coolers one way?

or can u run air thru them in either direction ?

[Cubes]

if you go the trust or blitz setup, don't set it up like benigno. you want the pipe that goes under the cooler to be the hot pipe, and the short pipe to be the cold pipe. you want the cold air to have the shortest possible path so it doesn't have time to heat up again.

also since cold air is denser, if the cold pipe is longer it will have more lag, since it takes more air to fill up the extra length of pipe.

Which is how mine is setup. I use the stock IC piping within the engine bay, pop the hood and it looks stock.