[s-cars] FMIC Alternatives

[brian bilotti]

Dave,
Good point. The reason these IC's are so expensive is
because a ton of engineering went into them to make
them "plug and play". You can buy a Spearco kit but
you're going to spend hours and $$$ making it fit. The
Spearco unit is a Fin and Tube design not Bar and
Plate. That said, yes it's possible to use a smaller
core but you are still going to have to figure out how
to mount it, mount it, fabricate the tubes, etc, etc.
HTH
BB
--- Dave Forgie <forgied at direct.ca> wrote:
> Iwas looking at a Turbonetics catalogue the other
> day and noted that
> Spearco has a number of intercooler  "kits", i.e.
> Air to Air intercooler
> cores and different end tank designs.  So I was
> thinking, if a person is
> not going into the stratosphere (so to speak) with
> horsepower but was in
> the 320ish range (mild RS2), then couldn't a smaller
> (height, width)
> intercooler that doesn't require cutting of the
> bumper be sized and
> fabricated (from off-the-shelf parts)?
> 
> I think the Mike Pedersen (sp) FMIC design is great
> and has evolved
> nicely.  However, in some ways, it is too large ,
> too custom and too
> expensive (US$2000!) for most "normal" applications.
>  A FMIC that could
> be bolted on to the car with out having to modify
> the car would be much
> better for many of us.  Any thoughts (Hap, Mike,
> Scott J.??)
> 
> Dave F.
> 
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