front mount TTA?

[turbows6]

I know some people have mounted the IC in front of the radiator on Turbo TA's, but I haven't heard anyone say weather or not it made an improvement, or better yet if they had overheating problems.

I seem to remember razor saying he tried a front mount setup with so-so results a couple years ago. What are 10 second TTA's using for an intercooler? (yeah, probably not easy to answer because there aren't many out there)

I also saw razor mention not running an IC at all and just using the alcohol kit as a chemical cooler. At this point I'm thinking about it myself :tongue:

 

[89ICBM]

Howdy!

The front mount dosen't work real well with the TTA. It has to lay down and is too close to the road, not a good situation. I don't know why anybody would not want an IC? A 10 degree drop in intake temp produces a 1% increase in power. Alky is a supliment for cooling. If yer running a 10 second car, octane is the key. There IS no substitute. With 114 octane you can run 25 psi with NO problem. Add alky to that and you increase the power.

 

[TTA977b]

My $.02

I researched the FMIC too. You will need make a shroud. Jim Dunn's IC is a stock location IC w/ adj. shroud. I am installing this weekend and I will post some pics and experience. Very curious to see how low it hangs. From the measurements it looks very close to the stock length. I will not comment just yet.

I really really made a bad decision not going alky as my first mod. Well except the fuel pump w/ hotwire mod. But I really like the custom IC too! Nice looking piece. I even went nutz and bell mouthed the neck. I do not regret buying it one bit. I just wish money grew on trees.

Off topic, I have a stock turbo and figured the cooler you can get the air charge the better.I went with to bigger IC before a bigger turbo (unless you have alky of course).The more efficient the IC,the better. My stock turbo will definitely benefit from a bigger IC & when I decide to step up,I have the IC already.

I only have a year and a half of research on the TB's/TTA so... just trying to spark debate.

 

[David Husek]

I just purchased a TTA with a DeQuick v2 front Mount Intercooler. It seems to work quite well as I run 19# boost, not a hint of knock on 93 octane and she runs very cool still. It is a nice install, intercooler is straight, you can't see it and you never have to worry about the pipes hitting anything, plenty of clearance. Very nice install....

 

[BandAid]

and the pics............

 

[Razor]

You have to be careful with ground clearance around the bottom of the core support. The 3 inch IC pipes are very easy to get smacked going in and out of driveways. Our cars are low as is.. this makes the front end even more sensitive.

I think a modded stock location and alcohol would be more than plenty for a 10 sec car.

HTH

 

[Sweet6]

You have to be careful with ground clearance around the bottom of the core support. The 3 inch IC pipes are very easy to get smacked going in and out of driveways. Our cars are low as is.. this makes the front end even more sensitive.

I think a modded stock location and alcohol would be more than plenty for a 10 sec car.

HTH

X2. The Jim Dunn one or another IC of that type would be great with alky. Free up the air restriction then cool it with Alky. I am happy with a Dutt neck IC and alky for now. The stock IC is so low I can't imagine going any lower on a street car.