TMIC on a DSM? Crazy! - Page 2

4g63tcrazy · 06-12-2009

I just sold my auto panda bone stock for $1700!! I was gonna keep it for my track car cause the auto bug started to hit me. Especially once I saw the stock auto tranny go 9.5....

twack · 06-12-2009

somewhere this has been done before. I remember a thread about the most ghettofied DSM and it had the sidemount in the place where that top mount was and it had both front and back window sprayers squirting onto the intercooler. I know there is more but i got to find the pic its like that engine bay gone wrong

Pushit2.0 · 06-13-2009

We can only hope they go back far enough to forget why they thought this would be cool and work better then a nice FMIC.

**cmspaz** · 06-13-2009

Supposedly he's getting 2-3psi by 1800 with the piping that short. If that's truly the case, fuck anti-lag.

twack · 06-13-2009

why not just run no intercooler like crazy said with meth. Its been done and works. Now that will be the best system with the least amount of lag

4g63tcrazy · 06-13-2009

Maybe I'll sell my front mount and use that money to buy a meth kit. Then get my 16g back and run 30psi til redline. Sounds like a plan to me!

CVD · 06-13-2009

I had piping that short in the Colt when I had no intercooler. I didn't notice significantly slower spool when I added a sidemount IC in the stock DSM location.

FattyBoomBatty · 06-14-2009

No intercooler would be nice.

**Goat Blower** · 06-14-2009

This isn't exactly new, even on a DSM. Luckily my daily hooptie has a TMIC from the factory, it must be cool!

DoughtCom · 06-15-2009

I'm having a hard time with this, it just gives the intake track a big piece of aluminum to heat soak. There's a reason Subaru guys go to FMIC when they start to make serious power (yeah I know, those two don't go well in the same sentence together), then again I also have an FMIC big enough to smuggle Mexicans across the border in.

Constant_Project21 · 06-15-2009

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Originally Posted by DoughtCom

...then again I also have an FMIC big enough to smuggle Mexicans across the border in.

Bahahahahaa
Anyways I think it would be even better with a co2 spray kit on the tmic, that would be some serious air cooling.

**Goat Blower** · 06-15-2009

Actually, I think it would work just fine, probably not for serious power though. Now if you did some kind of ducting below it and around the tranny with a suction fan, now you'd have something.

**goodhart** · 06-15-2009

Sounds like it does have some ducting, but ya probably not for any serious power.

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Originally Posted by JAXWHITE1G

The fan is shrouded and pulls down. It is a radiator fan from a honda Civic and pulls a great deal of air. With the scoop removed you can feel air being drawn from a couple inches above the intercooler.
Mike

viridionplague · 06-15-2009

i think this would be great for a mean street car, and i think it would help smaller turbos trying to fill aftermarket intercooler piping, might not be a huge increase but should be decent, then running meth if you really want bigger

**Shane@DBPerformance** · 06-16-2009

His outlet temps are horrible. Air temps above 130 degrees are quite bad. A decent setup should be be 80-110 degrees at 70mph with ambient temps of 76. I have only ever seen 170+ on non-intercooled cars.

**Kracka** · 06-16-2009

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Originally Posted by ecoli

His outlet temps are horrible. Air temps above 130 degrees are quite bad.

Sounds about inline with Subaru temps. We all know how great those are

As Shawn said, there is a reason Subaru guys go with FMIC setups instead.

MustGoFaster · 06-16-2009

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Originally Posted by ecoli

His outlet temps are horrible. Air temps above 130 degrees are quite bad. A decent setup should be be 80-110 degrees at 70mph with ambient temps of 76. I have only ever seen 170+ on non-intercooled cars.

Yup, crap tastic. I got temps up in that range (170) running 18PSI on my stock SMIC's. Now with my over sized FMIC they are about 15 degrees over ambient at about the same boost level.

viridionplague · 06-16-2009

nvm me then, thats f-n horrible, i never knew much about intake temps till now, guess you learn something every day

**goodhart** · 06-16-2009

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Originally Posted by viridionplague

nvm me then, thats f-n horrible, i never knew much about intake temps till now, guess you learn something every day

me too

Gravy · 06-16-2009

I remember seeing a guy Running E-85 and no IC on a DSM with a very large turbo(20g i think) running only about 16-18psi to keep the temps down some and did very well knock/intake temps. I thought about short routing my Stealth for one day with E-85 but after feeling my intake air temp coming out of the bov after a decently long day.... i started to think maybe it was a horrible idea.

Gotta admit, you don't see a TMIC very often on cars other than subby's.

Better than this car(Weird use of a DSM SMIC):

Or this one(TMIC on a Civic FTW!):