New AWIC Work

[Legacy777]

Some new pictures of hacking up the bumper beam.

http://www.main.experiencetherave.com/s ... adiator/02

I need to do some more trimming & fitting. I was going to work on it today, but haven't been feeling overly great. I will probably work on trying to finish things next weekend.....birthday present to myself

[yazmo]

starting to look nice from here.
good job i am excite to see the next

good luck

[Legacy777]

Mocked up the radiator today. Fits very well! Had to get a bolts welded on to fix a previous shop's screw up.

I'm going to try and finish the hose routing tomorrow. I'm going to have to cut the lower horizontal & vertical slats in the lower bumper. Hopefully I can finish everything tomorrow or Sunday.

Here's some pics
http://www.main.experiencetherave.com/s ... adiator/03

[Legacy777]

Final mock up
http://www.main.experiencetherave.com/s ... adiator/04

I had to cut the lower slats on the bumper skin. I need to cut a hole in the bumper skin for the line going to the intercooler, but it should work really well. I'm very happy with how everything is going together. I think this setup will be much more effective/efficient then my previous setup, plus look better.

[Legacy777]

Finally finished!!!! after four months....wow!

I pulled two bone head moves. First one I hooked up the inlet & outlet backwards on the intercooler. So I swapped that around. Other issue I realized I should have done is have the shop put a vent/bleed screw on the top of the exchanger header to help bleed off air. I ran my hoses so the inlet is at the top and outlet at the bottom. Good for thermal reasons, bad for venting air from the radiator.

http://www.main.experiencetherave.com/s ... diator/06/

all the pictures here
http://www.main.experiencetherave.com/s ... icradiator

[scuzzy]

that looks pretty damn excellent!

[Legacy777]

Thanks!

This is how I originally wanted my AWIC setup to be like. The two smaller radiators really just didn't do it.

[beatersubi]

Ooh, I just noticed in one of your pictures that dandy Samco hose from the turbo to the IC. It has a molded BOV elbow on it. What's the number for that? I've been looking for that little bugger!

Bit of a revival:
I found some info on the turbo->I/C hose here.

[i_c_the_light]

Air to water is so damn awesome.

If it's good enough for a Veyron, then it's good enough for my car.

[Legacy777]

Every time I go drive, especially when the temps are colder and go feel the AWIC core.....it's cold to the touch and stays that way....