Does any one know where to get a front mount intercooler kit for these cars beside stinger performance. I know they have them but thats a lot of money for some tubing and clamps.
There's lots on Ebay... again, the tubing and clamps are crazy expensive. Do what I am gonna do; weld some exhuast piping and then you will only need a few couplers, and you might even be able to use the ones that you previously had on the car.
In my view these 2 ways you can go with this. Get an intercooler and fab your own piping. or get Stingers kit. a) its MADE to fit our cars. b) its meant for sick amounts of hp( says its rated to 700hp). c) its 550 *shipped* so if you think about it its a good deal. on ebay the kits ive seen r nice but you still have to fab some of the piping to fit your car and they are around 400-500 PLUS shipping. But besides that theres not much you can do for a FMIC. If your looking to make around 300 hp and no more try making your own tubing and get a small intercooler. GL!
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1986 Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe
(daily driver/street terror)
Mods: K&N CAI filter,
I made mine using 2 1/2" mandrel exhaust u-bend. Just cut angles needed and weld. If was to do mine over I would use less rubber tubing. Also I would consider a water cooled intercooler. There is a guy taking the turbocoupe intercooler wrapping with aluminium and making it water cooled. Then all you go to run is small rubber lines and reservior and pump. I have been thinking of changing mine to get rid of trailer hitching. [Comes from running partial throttle and vam door flapping.] Here is how did mine. If going to copy. Let me know one video is wrong in one pipe. Maurice intercooler install pictures by mgman75 - Photobucket
I mounted a large NPR in my '89 ragtop. Very easy install. Think I paid $125 for it. I used Stinger's piping kit - $200. The piping kit is a piece of work! Flawless construction. A true bolt-on! Well worth the price!
No offense but that is one of the crappiest intercooler you can buy the air is going to take the path of least resistance and get no cooling what so ever.
I just bought an intercooler piping kit from ebay and and running a volvo fmic. I did have to buy a smaller radiator to do this too but i think its a pretty decent set up for under $250.
I just bought an intercooler piping kit from ebay and and running a volvo fmic. I did have to buy a smaller radiator to do this too but i think its a pretty decent set up for under $250.
I have a volvo intercooler too. The only thing problem with the intercooler is that it's made of plastic and apparently can only hold 15PSI before it starts leaking. I still haven't decided if I am going to use it or not, but one thing is for sure, a smaller radiator is a MUST. a junkyard Ranger should work nicely...
You are correct. After 15psi ify. Can document it if want to. I found a Volvo site with info. Ranger is one to use. If redoing mine I would think of this. Components
About half way done a Turbocoupe intercooler changed to water cooler. Get rid of extra charge air. Maurice
You are correct. After 15psi ify. Can document it if want to. I found a Volvo site with info. Ranger is one to use. If redoing mine I would think of this. Components
About half way done a Turbocoupe intercooler changed to water cooler. Get rid of extra charge air. Maurice
Could you use an air conditioning cooler to cool the water in the Air-to-Water intercooler? And what kind of a pump are you going to use?
Could you use an air conditioning cooler to cool the water in the Air-to-Water intercooler? And what kind of a pump are you going to use?
Cool stuff dude! Keep it rollin'!
Steve
I was up very late last night talking to some people who know a lot about how cars work and I got a lot of good information that I was very interested in. Here's what I found out:
1) An air conditioning condenser can easily be used to run water through to cool the water in the intercooler. You can use the 3/8" (or whatever size lines they had) for the whole cooling system.
2) You can use another mustang radiator fluid reservoir as the reservoir and place it directly in the loop of fluid passage. So that way you can run a somple loop from the reservoir, to the condenser, to the intercooler and back into the reservoir with the electric pump going somwhere in the system (proabably between the reservoir and the condenser)
3) As far as a pump goes, I found out that a computer water cooling pump can be used as we don't need to pump a ton of water really fast, we just need a little bit of water. You can get them for $50 at any computer specialty store and they are all 12V! Most of them have a pump controller so that you can turn the pump up or down at will and fine tune the system to give you maximum cooling ability!
4) Put some ice in the reservoir and you're ready to race!
Tell me what you think about what I learned! And I am pretty sure that this setup will add at least 15% power! It will definately help anyone going for that 300hp LA3 limit!!! (like me!)
Oh and as far as positioning of the intercooler, you can leave it in the stock location without fear of overheating because the water will be surrounding the intercooler in the aluminum jacket.
A air conditioner condenser or what I was thinking is small car radiator. I got a couple extra MG radiators. Pretty small and if would cool a 1.5 liter intercooler should be no problems. As far as pump e-bay has Lightning intercooler pumps new resonable. I guess on intercooler I guess a person could use header wrapped and straps. I would think small car radiator because all the water intercooler I see use larger hoses. Maurice
Front Mount Intercooler Kits 
