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Engine Specific Info and Questions => IDI Engine => Topic started by: BellCityDubber on July 22, 2008, 10:51:26 pm

Title: Took me long enough
Post by: BellCityDubber on July 22, 2008, 10:51:26 pm

But I finally got my intercooler installed, plumbed, and working

(http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii93/BellCityDubber/SSPX0117.jpg)

(http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii93/BellCityDubber/SSPX0118.jpg)

I think now I need a new downpipe, EGT gauge, and a giles pump..  :twisted:


I like to think my intercooler setup is very akin to Gilligan5000's setup..... using the saab "turbo intercooler" pipe and all

http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=3444483

(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c225/gilligan5000/SAABpipe.jpg)

Title: Took me long enough
Post by: andy2 on July 24, 2008, 08:01:58 pm

Nice clean install,Sleeper.

Title: Took me long enough
Post by: Smokey Eddy on July 24, 2008, 08:04:21 pm

lucky! im TRYING to do that right now!

Title: Took me long enough
Post by: BellCityDubber on July 24, 2008, 09:15:26 pm

thanks guys!

it means alot! I've been hanging on to parts for over a year now...

but I like how the front mount JUST KINDA sits in behind the bumper.. and since the bigbumpers are kinda low, you dont notice it until you're looking RIGHT AT IT...

most of the bits and pieces were either recycled from an ABA Turbo a friend and I parted, or donated from another ABA turbo project (some tubes and couplers weren't needed) and some other bits are actually G60 pipes/couplers :D


I got the saab turbo intercooler pipe from a local guy who's doing an ABA in a rabbit.... (some may know, shawn B of the vortex...)

in retrospect, it was kind of easy, just a matter of getting the pipes lined up, modified for length, figuring out how many hose clamps I needed, and the proper size of each coupler I needed...

the hardest part was getting the right couplers for the turbo outlet / intake inlet... and getting the right angles for the battery side..

I've been looking forward to doing this, but I had the A/C compressor in the way so I knew that I had to run a NON-AC setup to gain the clearance I needed on the belt side of the engine.  

other than that, it was kinda easy.... had to / still have to trim the bumper...

but it works great!

Title: Took me long enough
Post by: BellCityDubber on July 25, 2008, 02:25:10 pm

Me, My bro-in-law, his bro-in-law, and a friend of our familes went to pulling the muffler off now.....
it's de-mufflerized and sounds like a mini-mack-truck.......

it's soooo badass now

Title: Took me long enough
Post by: madmedix on July 26, 2008, 12:22:42 pm

Love the pink  :)

Title: Took me long enough
Post by: BellCityDubber on July 26, 2008, 12:50:57 pm

thanks, but mine's not pink
I just used the same " Turbo Intercooler" pipe from a saab that is shown...