Sooooo I might be going intercooled sooner rather then later.
Kenne Bell wants $1100 for their intercooler kit with a tiny ass reservoir, crappy heat exchanger, just normal $140 bosche pump and other odds and ends. I am really would rather not cough up that dough just to upgrade it all anyways. They refuse to sell parts of the kits separately too so I can't just buy the actually intercooler and then go with all the other better parts. So I start my search.
I looked for a LONG ass time to try and find how to get ahold of just the intercooler part for the KB because of course the KB just heatsoaks like a MFer and makes the Vic a turd. I finally came along a gem of information that a Lightning intercooler would most likely fit either right out of the box or with just modify the inlet and outlet on it.
After I found that I kept that in the back of my mind but didn't really look too hard. Well low and behold a really cheap Lightning intercooler just practically fell in my lap with 50k miles on it. So probably going to grab it and then start grabbing the other parts for the intercooler setup even though I probably won't put it on until I drop the new engine in the Vic and who knows how long that'll take me.
So couple questions for you guys.
1. How does the Lightning intercooler connect exactly?
Does the inlet and outlet just shoot straight up through the intake and you connect rubber lines with hose clamps? Looks like what you'd do to me but they don't look long enough. On the guy's post talking about using a Lightning one or some other one for it he shows a different intake basically the same as the KB unit with an intercooler and it looks like the inlet and outlet go into another metal tube on the intake itself that leads to outside the intake. The back of the KB intake has brass hole plugs screwed in nothing coming off of it.
1.7 intercooler...same as 03-04 cobra?
^^^That's the thread it's at post 8
2.How many GPH pump should I run? I don't think the intercooler setups have thermostats so I don't want to run the liquid through it all TOO fast to make it not have enough chance to cool off.
3. Main things I should look for with the heat exchanger? Is it pointless to get one bigger then the opening on the front bumper or the more surface area (even blocked by the bumper) the better? I like the AFCO GT500 intercooler the guy used in this thread to upgrade his KB cooling system Cool it! Upgrading the Kenne Bell Intercooler - MustangForums.com but I'm thinking a lot of it might be blocked by the front bumper depending on my placement of it
Kenne Bell wants $1100 for their intercooler kit with a tiny ass reservoir, crappy heat exchanger, just normal $140 bosche pump and other odds and ends. I am really would rather not cough up that dough just to upgrade it all anyways. They refuse to sell parts of the kits separately too so I can't just buy the actually intercooler and then go with all the other better parts. So I start my search.
I looked for a LONG ass time to try and find how to get ahold of just the intercooler part for the KB because of course the KB just heatsoaks like a MFer and makes the Vic a turd. I finally came along a gem of information that a Lightning intercooler would most likely fit either right out of the box or with just modify the inlet and outlet on it.
After I found that I kept that in the back of my mind but didn't really look too hard. Well low and behold a really cheap Lightning intercooler just practically fell in my lap with 50k miles on it. So probably going to grab it and then start grabbing the other parts for the intercooler setup even though I probably won't put it on until I drop the new engine in the Vic and who knows how long that'll take me.
So couple questions for you guys.
1. How does the Lightning intercooler connect exactly?
Does the inlet and outlet just shoot straight up through the intake and you connect rubber lines with hose clamps? Looks like what you'd do to me but they don't look long enough. On the guy's post talking about using a Lightning one or some other one for it he shows a different intake basically the same as the KB unit with an intercooler and it looks like the inlet and outlet go into another metal tube on the intake itself that leads to outside the intake. The back of the KB intake has brass hole plugs screwed in nothing coming off of it.
1.7 intercooler...same as 03-04 cobra?
^^^That's the thread it's at post 8
2.How many GPH pump should I run? I don't think the intercooler setups have thermostats so I don't want to run the liquid through it all TOO fast to make it not have enough chance to cool off.
3. Main things I should look for with the heat exchanger? Is it pointless to get one bigger then the opening on the front bumper or the more surface area (even blocked by the bumper) the better? I like the AFCO GT500 intercooler the guy used in this thread to upgrade his KB cooling system Cool it! Upgrading the Kenne Bell Intercooler - MustangForums.com but I'm thinking a lot of it might be blocked by the front bumper depending on my placement of it
