[s-cars] FMIC Alternatives

[Theodore Chen]

i just looked at http://www.turboneticsinc.com/intercoolers.html

why do you say the spearco is a fin and tube design?  it looks like
a stacked plate intercooler to me.  e.g.
http://www.speedforceracing.com/Intercooler.html

i also came across this:
http://www.proturbokits.com/intercoolers.htm

anyway, sounds like i better buy some argon and aluminum wire so i
can practice welding aluminum.

-teddy

--- brian bilotti <vinnieb2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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