Air to water?

[mk5.0]

looks good man, really like the vibrant clamp.

[KBScobravert]

So the car went to Matt's and he went to town.

Cooler is mounted and charge pipes built.







He was also responsible for welding up the lower core support, modifying the radiator to a dual pass, mounting the radiator, and mounting the fan.

[KBScobravert]

I am no photographer and it is not mounted but here it is mocked in place.

[shumpertdavid]

My fear would be that with any vibration / movement on the engine side, rigid mounting of the cooler, and solid connections between motor and cooler would result in stress fractures somewhere. I may just be over thinking and have no real world experience in mounting anything in a setup like yours, but I would think the silicone couplers would allow some flex and vibration dampening between the various components. The poly engine mounts are very stiff, but they do still allow some range of motion.

[NoClassic]

That looks well made.

I bet if you used a large/soft isolator on the core support you could get away with a rigid pipe connections. Maybe something with posts and rings you see on lower radiator mounts.

[KBScobravert]

I have aluminum 3" V-band sets that I can use but my concern is rigid mounting and tweaking aluminum parts like the cooler etc.

I like options though. Guess I can check out some wiggins stuff.

[mk5.0]

Trust me, I would rather run something a little nicer than a silicone coupler.

What are my options? Looking at the short run from the cooler (mockup) to the T/B and consider that the hole still needs to be cut into the cooler, what can I do? Come to think about it any movement at all should only be left to right twist instead of front to back with the poly mounts.

Maybe I can mount the intercooler with small bushings built in to help.

V-band, wiggins, or some of the cheaper clamshell clamps.
I plan on running wiggins on my vortech setup. Mainly because I can get o-rings and stuff from work for it.

[KBScobravert]

Trust me, I would rather run something a little nicer than a silicone coupler.

What are my options? Looking at the short run from the cooler (mockup) to the T/B and consider that the hole still needs to be cut into the cooler, what can I do? Come to think about it any movement at all should only be left to right twist instead of front to back with the poly mounts.

Maybe I can mount the intercooler with small bushings built in to help.

[mk5.0]

Wiggins don't allow for misalignment. They only help if the joint rotates. They keep the material from cracking from cyclic loads.

Not true, I work with wiggins clamps everyday in aviation and you can have up to 8 degrees of angular misalignment.

[KBScobravert]

Sad to say that I will probably run silicone connection between cooler and charge pipe and again between charge pipe and T/B. Even though I am running a poly motor mount, the cooler is going to be bolted to the upper core support.

[Matt]

Wiggins don't allow for misalignment. They only help if the joint rotates. They keep the material from cracking from cyclic loads.

[mk5.0]

The discharge air to T/B will have to be cut open and finally fabricated once the cooler is mounted. There is just no room for error.

If you use wiggins clamps at that joint you will be able to have some misalignment.

[KBScobravert]

Done.

Sexy welds


Sure hope this thing fits


The discharge air to T/B will have to be cut open and finally fabricated once the cooler is mounted. There is just no room for error.

[KBScobravert]

Should be done by Monday or Tuesday.

End tanks and center section tacked in place with the -12an water ports and 3/8"NPT ports ready to go.

[KBScobravert]

Kick ass! Can I borrow some money, permenently?

I can at least say, this is not as costly an avenue as I thought it was gonna be. Not factoring in a heat exchanger, pump, and water tank. There have been other changes that cost me a lot more.