Put a fan on the stock sidemount?

[cmptrphreak]

Ive noticed that my sidemount gets heatsoaked . So I was thinking if anybody had tried put a fan on the backside on the intercooler to draw more air in. sort of like a radiator fan But is that intercooler water sprayer better?

 

[csf_dsm]

you know wut that sounds like a good idea. my friend that has a mr2T has a fan that sucks air into his intercooler.

 

[wortdog]

I did this when I got an appropriately sized fan for free, it works ok for autocross if you're too lazy to bring a watersprayer, but you'd need a big, high power fan if your aim is to keep it from heatsoaking.

 

[Boost95]

Dont waste your time. Put the money towards a cheap FMIC or a upgraded sidemount

 

[DGajre777]

The purpose of an intercooler is to cool the air. The purpose of the radiator is to cool the coolant. It is a lot easier to cool water by blowing air through the radiator fins than it is to cool compressed air by sucking air through the intercooler fins. I say it will be useless. Get a bigger side mount, a FMIC or turn the boost down until you can afford supporting mods. There is no point in getting a intercooler water sprayer on the stock side mount. If you don't want a FMIC look at dejonpowerhouse.com's side mount.

 

[femmeDSM]

I agree with the above comment ^^^
Dejon makes an awesome SMIC, which I plan on using in the very near future. Water spray on a side mount (especially the stock one) would be a waste of money...There is just not enough surface area to make it work as well as you'd want it to. I've heard of people using water spray on a large SMIC (like a Supra or the upgraded Dejon) but I wouldn't expect much out of that setup, either, honestly.

If you don't have the cash to spend on a Dejon or Supra SMIC at the moment, Dejon offers a service for stock SMICs that might work for you for now.
From their website:
We take your stock side mount and (1) cut the stock pipes (2) clean with Kerosene and a chemical aluminum cleaner (3) enlarge the in/out holes and (4) TIG weld on new beaded tubes. You receive a clean & shiny side mount. The Inlet pipe is straight so that it will fit 20g & large turbos. Turn around is 2-3days from receipt of your sidemount.

More info here: http://dsm.dejonpowerhouse.com/edit/1-03.htm

 

[dsmsucks]

Get a supra sidemount!! You wont be sorry!

 

[wortdog]

Yeah, I guess I didn't make my post discouraging enough. After a 1-2 minute autocross, it takes almost 2 minutes to pull most of the heat out of the stock sidemount even with a pretty good fan on it. Its totally overwhelmed while you're actually driving. At the last track day I went to, the stock sidemount was heatsoaked by the second straightaway, even with the fan.

A lot of the ClubRally DSM's use a watersprayer on the stock sidemount, and it works well enough, but they're forced to use the stock sidemount unless they bump into Open class. Last year I crewed for a guy with a rally car built by RRE, it had a 5 gallon water tank for spraying the intercooler/radiator. Its more of a crutch than anything else.

Nothing beats a nice frontmount IMO.

 

[luvmygst]

Ive got 2 fans on my FMIC. My intercooler is so tall that it close to half of it sticks into ther bumper, and i didnt want to cut a big notch. I had 2 fans from a mustang tt project(the car got stolen before it was finished). I put the fans up in the bumper mounted to the intercooler to help air flow behind the bumper. Not sure if it helps alot but I gaurentee it doesnt hurt.