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Old 02-03-2015, 12:20 PM   #1
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That's damn nice work. It looks really good, especially if it's just what you had laying around haha. Might wanna wait on the weatherstripping. Ted is right, it might get too cold. Although it's probably much easier to add right now rather than once it's installed.
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Old 02-03-2015, 02:47 PM   #2
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Nice job!

Is your radiator & oil cooler still located in the stock locations, using the stock brackets? Too lazy to back-read, but I seem to recall you're using an aftermarket AL radiator & stock oil cooler in stock locations, but probably yanked out the A/C condensor?

If you drew up a diagram for cutting out the sheet metal pieces, please post it up!
Everything is still in its stock location. It's a Koyo OEM-replacement Al radiator and I've ripped out everything else. I even relocated the wiring harness so it runs underneath the upper radiator support instead of along that cross member.

I have some of the templates I used but it wouldn't be too hard to take measurements off the duct itself since it's a bunch of rectangles and triangles.

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That's some piece of work!

You'd be amazed at how much more efficient everything cools now...
If anything, it might be too cold!

Pat yourself on the back for a job well done...


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That's damn nice work. It looks really good, especially if it's just what you had laying around haha. Might wanna wait on the weatherstripping. Ted is right, it might get too cold. Although it's probably much easier to add right now rather than once it's installed.
Too cold, huh? That's not a problem I figured I'd have. My first engine fell victim to overheating so I want to make sure that never happens again. If it becomes an issue I can make some plates to restrict the inlet area.
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Old 02-03-2015, 04:14 PM   #3
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Too cold, huh? That's not a problem I figured I'd have. My first engine fell victim to overheating so I want to make sure that never happens again. If it becomes an issue I can make some plates to restrict the inlet area.
I would be more worried about the oil (cooling)...

With very minimal ducting - a LOT less that what you have - we got our race-track FC from normal oil temps during street driving down to under 160F.
This same FC with no ducting was hitting 250F on track with ambients over 100F.
Normally, the thermo-pellet would kick in, but we replaced that with a nut + bolt to have oil flowing through the core full-time.
Don't quote me on this, but that thermo-pellet triggers at around 190F?
Not really a good thing to be cycling the thermo-pellet like that if temps get below...

I believe you're also streeting this FC?


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