other cars stock IC flow rates and pressure dropages...

[Tallen]

i am looking for a FMIC. after the suspension upgrade, i find the cars wheel too close to the supra smic for comfort, and those pipes come a little too close to the ground for my liking!
a: aside from a now impossible to find cheap small NPR IC....what makes a good FMIC. i have heard of ppl using the audi 5000 FMIC, but i was wondering about pressure drop and flow since the flow basically goes thru one half of the ic, then does a 180 and goes back....seems very pressuredropish. i know a heliarc (TIG) welder so a lil inlet/outlet modification is no problem. money however, is the problem.
b: whats the max height for a 2G? from what larry says, 10.5" is about dead nuts maximum. too bad that 20" high IC wont work! i am not really concerned with that as much as max length....how long would that be abouts?
PS my goals are to run an big 16G turbo with goals of 13's to high 12's maximum. i still want that daily driver.
c: any ebay FMIC's that would strike you guys as something that may fit my goals?

thanks again...any help will be a great help. the reason i am posting here is that i cannot get straight answers anywhere else.

 

[greathuskie]

there is some spearco cores on ebay you should look into....

 

[Tallen]

since finding flow rates on those puppies is near imposssible...what sizes should i look @ for spearco.

 

[QuickerDSM]

I'm kind of in the same boat as you. I want to go 11's on a 13 second budget ....

Seriously though, I've kicked around a few different ideas for "cheap" intercooling alternatives and if you know someone with a tig, then more power to ya.

Buy 3 stock 1G intercoolers (can be had for 40-50 each). Hack the tanks off all of them, including the one on your car which makes 4 total cores. Weld them all together so the charged air goes through vertically then fabricate the end tanks. This will yield a core dimension of 32"x6"x4". You could have the charged air flow through two, then enter a "common" tank where the air would do a 180, then come back up through the other two cores and exit via a different end tank. This would give a lot of cooling area with minimal pressure drop as long as the piping was at least 2.25" or larger. You'd probably have less than 300.00 into it with the cores and aluminum for the end tanks. Piping might be a bit more though with couplings etc... I haven't taken measurements, so I don't even know for sure if a 32" wide core would fit in a 1G, or a 2G, although it would not be longer than that since the tanks would be on the top/bottom. I'm just thinking out loud now....

I've also considered a custom liquid/air cooler too but that gets a bit lengthy to describe.

Mike