iRub1Out

Enough air goes thru the stock pipes, you won't gain anything by changing them without a tune or serious upgrades.

Even a filter offers very minimal results without being coupled with a tune to use the extra air.

TJPlatinumEB

I fabricated and built up my own set of IC pipes for my 3rd gen Supra just recently. It is NOT anything that I would ever recommend doing unless you are going to see some substantial or major performance benefit from. My car is making over 500hp, so the piping and setup this way was necessary.

Relocating and mounting a universal IC would be the easy part in the F-150. All kinds of space and openings to put it there behind the hood grille. But I think the hard part would be taking the outlets of both turbos and combining them down to just one pipe as it enters the intercooler. Sure you could copy or follow some of the factory routing, but smoothly joining two pipes into one would not be an easy process.

By the time you fabricate mounts, buy all the couplers and clamps (more expensive than you might think), intercooler core itself, all the piping, fab the piping, bead roll that piping to prevent clamps from popping off, coating or painting it, and hopefully don't cause any disruptions in the flow or hinder any performance gains, you won't be saving as much money as you might think. I have almost $700 into mine and that doesn't include the $250 Tial BOV or the polishing and that's only for one turbo and would have less piping than what our EB's would have.

This generation Supra never came with a true front mounted intercooler so it has been a giant pain so far

iRub1Out

I still patiently await a tial bov on the eco.

Sorry to be ot, just thinking about it.

I'll do it, but I want to see it done first. The whoosh of the waste gates now is kinda weak.

killerrudy

Yeah you don't have to do that. They make lots of universal intercoolers that are 2in/1out. So no need to over invent the fork here.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CXRacing-Universal-Twin-Turbo-Intercooler-2-In-1-Out-27x12-5x3-5-/251248918391?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item3a7f9a3f77&vxp=mtr
The couplers are the only expensive part of the whole setup. Getting some nice 3ply ones will prob run you 20 -30 for each connection for nice ones. But you could always run across a deal and make out. A lot of the generic FMIC kits you will find on ebay you cannot use the silicon couplers because they are not even single ply and you will blow one out the first time you go over ~10psi.

GreyFX4Eco

Not to make fun of you but have you ever popped your hood?

jcain

There is no maf... Hope your shoes are tasty
Fwiw, that maf look alike is merely an iat

bigfx

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Bringing this topic back up..I may do this as the current kits are crazy expensive. I figured two 90 degree bends and an 8-10 inch section of pipe with 3 couplers for the cold side. A two to one collector for the hot side and a coupler to the universal. An adaptor for the iat on the cold side would be interesting ..weld some tabs for mounting. Maybe 300-400 with a cxr racing fmic, I used one for my 335i, a lot cheaper than whats available and worked just as well as the high dollar applications in the BMW community. What do yall think?

Watt-maker

You could also just merge the two hot side pipes from the turbos into one before the IC. That way you could just use a single in/out IC. That way you also only have to plumb one cold side and one hot side pipe past the radiator.

bigfx

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That's exactly what I'm thinking I found some 2-1 collectors...this really seems feasible. .and for less than 300..hmmmm