so, venemous S was asking me about my set up.

this is how much it cost

air to air intercooler (bought from wesmaster) - 280
aluminized steel piping from jc whitney - 200
(this consist of various mandrel bent piping from 45 degrees and 90 degrees)
hardware - 120, might be a little bit more but it wasn't much
(couplers clamps)
(sorry o' neill i meant to put 20 down for clamps)
greddy type S bov and flange - 200

install was free but it was very time consuming. my advice from u is to start from the intercooler and build up. thats a given though. my dad and I kept on measuring, estimating, cuting, then remeasuring, estimating, success.


If you have any questions just ask. I don't know whats better air to air or air to water, b/c i've never tried the comptech aftercooler. I did about 3 months worth of research, looking around on past post on this website and asking around whats better. i've seen many posts from;

"ac for supercharger ic for turbos" to "intecooler is more efficient in daily driving"

I found this project a little more cheaper than the comptech after cooler, the only draw back is that its a little more time consuming.

so anyways heres what I've got and if u have any questions let me know

 

Came out nice I like it. thanks for the detail and pics. How long you estimate that it took you to fit the piping? And also did you get the coupler clamps from JC Whitne as well?

 

i'd estimate about 2 weeks of off and on working on it. if you hurried and worked on it it'll probably be 3 days to a week. the clamps can be bought anywhere, even at home depot or lowes

 

Maybe trying ....

Dyno - Aftercooler
Dyno - Intercooler

 

Here is some constructive critisim:

The aluminized steel will rust. I would recommend taking the setup to a welder and have them make it out of stainless. Also, you should be able to rotate the S/C compressor housing to output the air in a direction to allow the area to go to the passenger side.

Hopfully you're running a good amount of boost to justify the experience.

Good luck

Chris

 

after seeing your post, I think it might be better for comptech SC owners to go this route since it's cheaper.

But I still think AC is better than IC for SC.

 

i'm going to get it coated i'm actually running only 5 for now.

hopefully i'll get 9 psi going as soon as i get the clutch replaced.

 

I was actually going to comment on the piping also, it will defenitely rust.

Now, your comment about rotating the compressor housing to output air towards the passenger side into the intercooler. I'm curious as to why you say that? Is it to avoid crossing the pipes therefore avoiding all those bends?

I was actually thinking of doing the same pipe routing on my car and thats what I had planned, as I'm not too sure the vortech can be spun around. Haven't played w/ that yet but I dont think so.