Might this make an appearance at certain event in a few months? Looking good Mike.

You mean deal's in 6 months? That would be nice but I'm not making any predictions.

Well I think it still turned out pretty well. I like how yours is more direct from the turbo to the IC and not angled like mine. Speaking of, I didn't really want mine like that either, but I was under space constraints as well, so I definitely understand what you mean. I want to do clamps like you're using too but I'm not brave enough yet lol.

EDIT: See, this is what I want for end tanks lol. But I like how yours are simple and clean, without all the frankenstein welds that mine have lol.
http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...52&postcount=4

Don't get me wrong I'm happy with how it turned out, but there are always ways to do things better :)

Something along this line is what I wanted to do.
http://www.fabricationlife.com/2014/...ercooler-pt-2/

I'd hit it like the first of an angry God
I'd PIIDB
Sexy brotha, I dig it

:naughty:
Thanks homie.

Sneak peak of the cold side pipe tacked up.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a...027_202706.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E...027_202816.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I...027_202721.jpg

Why deep instead of a wider IC?

Reasons ;)

Are you gonna ditch that bullshit greedy BOV?

Also.... if you get up here early enough on the 20th, I sense some dimple dieing and powdercoating :suspect:

Yeah I hear ya. That's how I feel all the time lol.

And um, HOLY SHIT he did a great job on his end tanks. Wow. I like the Smurfette drawing too lol.

Several reasons. Firstly being packaging space. I wanted to make sure I had enough room to run my air filter into fresh air.

Secondly intercoolers loose efficiency the wider you go. If I went wider, in order to get one that would be able to handle the upper range of my flow rate would have made it prohibitively tall. So I kept it as short (width) wise as I could and increased the depth to bring it above my needs for flow. Also wanted to keep the overall volume of the system as low as possible to help with boost response.

:dunno: Is there a reason to get rid of the Greddy? Does it leak at higher pressures?

Dimple dieing perhaps. I wanted to ceramic coat the piping though. Also kinda want to get it running and make sure it doesn't have a pinhole somewhere before coating :lol:

Yea that'a s professional fabricator for a race team, so you would expect the quality to be high, but it's nice to have something to shoot for :)

Finished the cold side pipe.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2...028_202314.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A...028_202326.jpg

Finally got a clear day to take some pics of the finished piping.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F...111_132328.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L...111_132335.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W...111_132350.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z...111_132402.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E...111_132413.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-B...111_132424.jpg

Nice work and I'm a newb to all this turbo stuff, but is that setup going to be too rigid?

Won't the engine moving a bit cause some stresses on the pipes or do the connections
and rubber isolators on the intercooler deal with that for you?

The radiator and intercooler are both completely isolation mounted. The Vanjen clamps also allow for ~15° of angular movement and ~.5" of axial movement. There won't be any problems with stresses between them due to engine movement.

I still say ditch that shock looking torque brace and brace the engine off the bay or build a tri-point strut/firewall brace