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Ben Lipman
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Saturday, February 07, 2009 - 08:14 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a)

Forty-two degrees here today. (42- WTF?) Predictions of up to 47 tomorrow...that is insane. Spent a bloody hot afternoon under the front of the car pulling out under trays and looking at where/how I'm going to mount the three coolers. The factory SMIC came out, so I am now committed.

I pulled out the factory power steering 'cooler' as I am going to run a better one in the stock SMIC position. I went to the wreckers yesterday and spent an hour poking around. I found a transmission cooler from a Magna which might do the job. I was hoping to find one of the VR/VS Commodore tow pack style ones with push on barb fittings but it wasn’t to be. The wrecker guy assures me that all the local speedway cars are using these. At $25 I’ll give it a go. The only problem is it uses the 'banjo bolt' style fittings and comes with some funky rigid pipe I can’t use. I have shortened this and will some how flare the ends to prevent slippage.


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The intercooler has been suspended in position with some wire until I figure out how to mount it. The other problem is I can’t get the pipe kit to come anywhere close to marrying up to the cooler. Looks like it is custom piping time. This is where I wish I’d bought a Greddy Kit...


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The engine oil cooler will go in the passenger side where the power steering cooler used to be. I am going to buy one with a filter relocation kit so I have to find somewhere for that also.

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