Coolexperts wrote:Hi Mulley,
Hope you are keeping well. Thank you for the old intercooler!! I am having trouble getting under an M100 to look at the positioning. I see that you had a bigger one made. I was going to make the tanks the full width of the fixing screws front and back and get the core as wide and deep as the top and bottom tanks. is there room to go any larger or is the outer size of the intercooler the maximum size?
Please PM me.
Kindest Regards
Steve.
Hi Steve,
Written descriptions are often misunderstood without the benefit of pictures, so my apologies in advance if I’ve misunderstood what you wrote…so, with that said,
On my Fed Elan, the intercooler is positioned with the tanks as “end-tanks” as opposed to top and bottom. Using the stock shroud, the outer perimeter size is pretty much at its maximum. (Also, as the opening in the stock shroud is smaller than the perimeter of the intercooler, probably limited benefit of going larger in the perimeter?) The end-tank towards the center of the car, and part of the core, is actually positioned behind the radiator, and in that section the solid shroud is in front of the intercooler and behind the radiator.
On the back side the core can be as deep as the tanks – in fact there is ~3/4 of an inch clearance between the tanks themselves and the nearest limiting obstruction (the anti-roll bar). On the front the core can be deepened to be flush with the front of the tanks – it would just require removal of a rubber gasket from the stock shroud which is there as the thinner stock intercooler core is inset from the front of the tanks
If it would help, I can take pictures this evening which would be tomorrow morning your time.
