Has anyone ever mounted an intake underneath a top mount intercooler? Im currently building a hood/ air box to test this out since ive never seen it before. Im piecing together a turbo kit slowly but surely along with building my own custom hood. New to s2ki and wanted to say hello and get input on my idea.

 

Why would you want a top mount intercooler? Heat soaks a biatch. A V- mount intercooler/rad would be great tho

 

Just wanted to try something different honestly. Ill post some pictures up here of what I have so far as soon as I can figure out how to do it. But I know for sure I don't want a front mount intercooler just for a practicality standpoint, im not a fan of debris tearing anything up that I worked hard on. I was going to have a water sprayer nozel above the top mount intercooler in the hood along with multiple vents to divert the engine heat away from the intercooler. I would like to see around 400hp when im done. Im going to be running a kpro setup, steed speed manifold, precision 6262, synchronic bov and tial 38mm wastegate.

 

Another thing that I wanted to achieve was to piece together a kit I could reproduce that enabled people not to modify their car other than the hood to run a turbo setup. Im pretty good with fiberglass and making custom things and such so I figured it would be a fun project. With the top mount intercooler and the log manifold it shouldn't have much lag either.

 

I'm having a hard time imagining exactly where you want to put the intercooler?

 

Not really much difference between debris hitting the intercooler or hitting the radiator. You could run water to air

 

its going to sit roughly where the factory air box was. The intake is a large 9 inch cone underneath the intercooler, comes in straight through the passenger side of the air box. Its done in metal right now but will be remade in fiberglass/carbon fiber once I know for sure it will cool the engine enough.

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The bov is on the driver side of the intercooler, hks weld on flange.


heres what the hood for it looks like now, not done yet but its getting there. The hood is raised up where the intercooler is a few more inches than a stock hood.
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Is the plan to use the suction of the intake to pull air across the intercooler? That seems counter productive to me. You would then be heating the intake charge before putting it through the hot turbo and then trying to cool it off again. I like you're creativity and for doing it yourself, but I don't see how this setup will be anywhere near as effective at heat management as a FMIC would be. I'm in to see the results though. Good luck.

 

Yea that's pretty much my idea. im going to wrap the intercooler and air box with heat reflecting tape or something like that and also have two spray nozzles in the hood scoop above the intercooler to spray a bit of water onto the top. The air filter will have a small rain shield over it so it wont just suck up all the water. If it doesn't work at all I have another idea im going to try involving a half size radiator and a large air duct from the front bumper to the front of the airbox, making the hot air go up through the hood as cold air is forced through the front. I just like making new things I haven't seen before.

Heres something else I made lately
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someone did the intercooler behind the radiator thing like yours I'm not sure how it worked out. I think your second Idea sounds better as intercoolers can get quite hot as your turbo pushes air through it. Having your intake suck air from post intercooler air is like someone said above counterproductive. I would do your half radiator idea and make the intake before the intercooler. Nice work on your hood though! I want something like that for my v-mount setup