Oh it is a server issue then? I was assuming it was just we had exceded the bandwidth for this month or something.

BL said that it crashed in the middle of the lightning storm that we had in GB a few days back. when it goes like that he never knows how much it will take to repair it... or something like that...

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Currently waiting for the new DNS to resolve, IP address has changed Server is back up and running.

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I had a 3kgt...then some douche bag wanted to run into it.

I feel cut off from the world.

this is true.

so I think it will be assanine (sp?) to do this with out a front mount. I know that it will require more than the stock intercoolers.

Now the challenge becomes which front mount.

Many people chop crash bar. some call this retarded. I'm sure I can make a better crash bar than mitsu to replace it.

some people have also placed the intercooler behind the crash bar. this seems like a good option to me.

I found an intercooler that is fed from one side, and exits the same side. Given our plenum, and the "open" spot for the turbo, this seems like the best option for me.

I'm not crazy about the air turning 180* (shut up bryan, It'll work for a degree mark) but I guess it has to happen somewhere, and it might as well happen where there are fins to direct it.

This should also lessen "spool" time as the turbo will have less 3" pipe to fill.

This leaves the thickness in question also. I was planning a three inch core. I believe that any more than that is kinda over kill. The deeper you go on a heat exchanger the less efficent it is, because the air at that point has already been heated... so to speak.

Plus I'd like to leave some air for the radiator.

three inch outlets will leave me with three inch pipes all around...

This will also give me an oportunity to upgrade the stock oil cooler, and give it a hole that an intercooler used to have. Thus hopefully taking a bit more burden away from the radiator, which I'm not overly worried about as we live in Wisconsin, not Arizona. Go tundra.

comments, suggestions?

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Top down designes don't cool the air as well as the side to side coolers. This is because the air has less distance to travel thru the innercooler itself. However, the facial will still be greater than the stockers.

When you get some time, research something called "bar and plate design" on 3si. Specifially under Shivers name. I think he even started a thread about it.

you talking about the intercooler that he posted about. I think it was in the general section. I read it... yeah.

Already have a different design in mind...

not equal length headers, but I'll have to deal...

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