Top mount intercooler?

[anarchyx34]

Seeing this gave me the idea:



Anyone ever do this on a TD? Obviously the above pic shows it intergrated into the intake manifold, but you get the basic idea. I wonder how much room there is to work with between the hood and the valve cover.

[jtanguay]

not a bad idea... but then you give away that your car has been modded

i think there is about 3 inches or so of clearance at the valve cover... the insulation takes up a bit of space

[anarchyx34]

Insulation?? What insulation? My hood's underside is bare

3 inches is a little tight. But it might be doable.

[Typrus]

You might want to set up a WRX-esque scoop to accommodate if you were to do that. Couldn't be set right up against anything either. No flow that way.

It'd still be more of a sleeper than one of the cars with the huge front-mount intercooler hanging down and the BOV screaming every 3 seconds. lol

[Turbinepowered]

It'd still be more of a sleeper than one of the cars with the huge front-mount intercooler hanging down and the BOV screaming every 3 seconds. lol

What BOV?  :twisted:  We don't need no stinkin blowoff!

[veeman]

That intake is from the screamin' yellow zonker, isn't it?  Neat car.

The one thing that'd be a consideration is how you'd get to your oil fill cap.  Not sure how they did it in the zonker, but perhaps you could set the IC off to the side.  Maybe you could check clearance between the valve cover and the hood with foam blocks or blocks of wood or something.   Put something in there and try to gently close the hood.

[anarchyx34]

Well i would offset it so I could access the oil cap. Also consideration would have to be given to the round pcv breather thing on the right side of the valve cover. That could be relocated easily though or retrofitted to the later style dampeners used on vr6's. The only trick is finding the correct size cooler with the ports where I would want them.

[Riverfurm]

Is there enough room under the cowl panel (take advantage of the high prs. in front of windsheild) you might have to do some hacking.

[RabbitJockey]

Is there enough room under the cowl panel (take advantage of the high prs. in front of windsheild) you might have to do some hacking.

i've considered that before, it would make short tubing and provide good flow, and you could turn your heater fan on to help cool the air even more haha

[GTD.]

In Europe Peugeot TDs have a intercooler ontop of the engine, though they have a flange outlet.

  I did think about it but I think the positioning of the IC would be poor, I know my stock VW GTD intercooler suffered heat soak and that had a cowl directing cold air from behind the headlight through the IC which was above the gearbox.


  The outlet wside was warm on the intercooler so I am using curently using a Rover 220 TD IC and am going to replace it with a huge Volvo FMIC



  I need a smaller battery or to move the battery as its in the way of the outlet

[anarchyx34]

Well the trick on my car is going to be fitting an intercooler while leaving the a/c in place. I know everyone here is going to say to dump it but it gets way too hot here and I spend far too many hours in this car to make that practical.