gprestonmoto
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Ok I'm gonna start a Liquid to Air Intercooler installation on my 2010 Mazdaspeed3 sometime in the future. I'm broke at the moment because Uncle Sam doesn't pay me s***, but hopefully I'll have some extra money soon and this project will be put into action. I'm going to list the theoretical process here and I'd love your feedback, unless you're one of those "Super Haters" who like to trash talk L/A Intercoolers. We're talking less than 0.1 PSI of pressure drop here. That's legit. I'm gonna post a "diagram" of the simple routing at the bottom but please be aware that I'm doing some paperwork on the computer and I'm not on my home computer to really CAD a blueprint.
Step 1! - Just like the FC3S RX7, Mazda decided once again to put the battery in a friggin' inopportune place! So... SARD battery box and some 1/0 AWG wire to the hatchback! This also makes it easy if you're running a subwoofer box with or without a Cap. So I'll pull that damn black box outta the engine bay and have a nice little space where she used to be!
Step 2! - Mount "Bend" Type Liquid to Air Intercooler in the space left by the battery box. The Bend Intercoolers have a 3" inlet and outlet and they can be facing the left, and down. (Or right and up, right and down, left and up, but for the 3... left and down)
Step 3! - We can simply run 3" intercooler piping to the turbo (which is only about 12-16 inches away), and also to the throttle body. This would require using a short RAM intake without a box because the space that the box takes up would be too much to route the pipe, but it still comes out to about 12-16". That's not a lot of piping going all over the place!
Step 4! - Mounting the Heat Exchanger/Radiator. I've been talking to a couple friends of mine and a few people think that they would like to mount the rad on top of the block like the stock intercooler. This is a great idea and totally fine, but I HATE TMIC's and I hate anything that doesn't let my block show. (I cannot stand the new trend to have your engine bay look like a damn plastic toy box, and I want to paint the valve color the same color as the car.) I would rather use the 12x12x2 rad and place it on the right side in front of the A/C condensor and Engine Rad. I'll mount a 10" electric fan behind it to suck air into the A/C and rad.
Step 5! - Mount the pump. This doesn't really matter as long as you're using a good pump like the Bosch Cobra. There are a lot of cheaper Rule pumps but you have to mount them as low as possible and I really don't wanna screw with that crap. And of course you're gonna have to run water lines from the rad to the pump and to the Intercooler, but I'm pretty sure any idiot can figure this out. I'll link you to something simple to show how this is accomplished. http://www.haywood-sullivan.com/vanagon/TDI/intercooler_system.pdf
Step 5! - If you're a little bit of a psychopath (or you like to hit the track often, and/or smash people on the street), you can add an ice box. An icebox makes it possible for you to make intake temperatures even less than ambient temps. Since the ice box will the separate from the entire air system, you can pretty much mount it wherever you want, including the trunk. I don't know if I really find this necessary for my daily driver, but there is a nice open space just behind the right bumper, there's an ok spot to mount it in there, but I would probably put it in the trunk.
Ok so there you go. Again this is all in theory, when I get some money together, I'm gonna give it a shot. But until then, it will stay here in a thread. LOL.
Step 1! - Just like the FC3S RX7, Mazda decided once again to put the battery in a friggin' inopportune place! So... SARD battery box and some 1/0 AWG wire to the hatchback! This also makes it easy if you're running a subwoofer box with or without a Cap. So I'll pull that damn black box outta the engine bay and have a nice little space where she used to be!
Step 2! - Mount "Bend" Type Liquid to Air Intercooler in the space left by the battery box. The Bend Intercoolers have a 3" inlet and outlet and they can be facing the left, and down. (Or right and up, right and down, left and up, but for the 3... left and down)
Step 3! - We can simply run 3" intercooler piping to the turbo (which is only about 12-16 inches away), and also to the throttle body. This would require using a short RAM intake without a box because the space that the box takes up would be too much to route the pipe, but it still comes out to about 12-16". That's not a lot of piping going all over the place!
Step 4! - Mounting the Heat Exchanger/Radiator. I've been talking to a couple friends of mine and a few people think that they would like to mount the rad on top of the block like the stock intercooler. This is a great idea and totally fine, but I HATE TMIC's and I hate anything that doesn't let my block show. (I cannot stand the new trend to have your engine bay look like a damn plastic toy box, and I want to paint the valve color the same color as the car.) I would rather use the 12x12x2 rad and place it on the right side in front of the A/C condensor and Engine Rad. I'll mount a 10" electric fan behind it to suck air into the A/C and rad.
Step 5! - Mount the pump. This doesn't really matter as long as you're using a good pump like the Bosch Cobra. There are a lot of cheaper Rule pumps but you have to mount them as low as possible and I really don't wanna screw with that crap. And of course you're gonna have to run water lines from the rad to the pump and to the Intercooler, but I'm pretty sure any idiot can figure this out. I'll link you to something simple to show how this is accomplished. http://www.haywood-sullivan.com/vanagon/TDI/intercooler_system.pdf
Step 5! - If you're a little bit of a psychopath (or you like to hit the track often, and/or smash people on the street), you can add an ice box. An icebox makes it possible for you to make intake temperatures even less than ambient temps. Since the ice box will the separate from the entire air system, you can pretty much mount it wherever you want, including the trunk. I don't know if I really find this necessary for my daily driver, but there is a nice open space just behind the right bumper, there's an ok spot to mount it in there, but I would probably put it in the trunk.
Ok so there you go. Again this is all in theory, when I get some money together, I'm gonna give it a shot. But until then, it will stay here in a thread. LOL.
