Tom L's 3SGTE '95 Celica Options

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[Dr_Tweak]

tweak question, y do u always run the ic piping over the block, and into the intake manfold/ throttle body? I know for a fact that the block gets hot (no duh, i have scars to prove it) so doesnt that increas the tempurature of the air that is coming from the intercool, thus negating the effect of the intercool in the first place? (pipe gets hot through convection...air in pipe gets hot through convection as well...idk its science)


just curious tweak

YOUR THE MAN BTW! Another swap down.

I used to be all about finding the "coolest" possible route. Here's a pic of one of the first 3SGTE swaps that I did, and you can see the great lengths I went through to avoid hot areas:



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However, after having done this for quite a while now and gaining a lot more experience, I came to find that EVERYTHING under the hood of a car gets piping hot, and the location of the intercooler piping makes a very marginal, if any, difference. The two things that make the most difference is 1. number of bends (less is better) and 2. Quality of the intercooler core.

doc what im curious about is do you ever have to cut your front bumpers for fitment of the piping? i had a bear of a time trying to get my front bumper on and you can still kind of see where the piping is rubbing the bumper.

No, I never do any cutting of the bumper. Can you take a pic of your setup with the bumper cover off?

nicely done DR! any shots of the turbo getting clocked? still curious how you do it! and do you have any experience with the greddy prof b boost controller. i can seem to get it to work, ive changed the switches in the back and everything!

what could cause over heating in this setup aswell? my temp rises everyonce in a while! its getting frustrating!!! very...
(i pressure washed my rad core and this seemed to help. i still need to do the lower half, its was pretty black and gritty to say the least... im sure this could contribuite to it but what else?)

Yeah I do, in fact I'm going to post up a thread about it pretty shortly.

I've installed a few profec Bs, yeah. How do you have it set up?

When does the temp rise? When you're boosting? When you're sitting at idle? Are you loosing any coolant?

This post has been edited by Dr_Tweak: Aug 21, 2006 - 5:40 PM