Intercooler placement
 

I am doing a blow thru twin turbo system on my Scarab 300 this time. I am going to use the Holley Sniper throttle body system because it has pretty good support. I want to use this type of intercooler
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but not sure where to mount it. This is similar to my engine compartment layout
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. The battery is almost directly in front of the engine and the trim pumps are located outboard of the battery. I have thought about mounting it above the thermostat housing, but concerned about how to mount it.
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For plumbing, I am using a merc transom mount water pickup to feed water to the intercooler. How have others that have used a intercooler mounted it and how to you feed water to it?

I fed the intercooler water from a T on the water inlet of the oil cooler which was fed by a stock merc seawater pump picking up from the drive...


This was a Procharger intercooler..

My NEXT one would've been from Frozen Boost But I sold the boat (put it back stock)







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I think you are going to have to mount the inter- coolers a little further away than the thermostat housing to keep from having a lot of sharp bends , I was having the same problems so I ended up making my own inter- coolers , just make sure your inter-coolers are big enough so you don't have a restriction . I have a 2 stage water pump that I use to feed the engine and inter-cooler

I mounted my inter-coolers on top of my carburetors
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...5dc732af4d.jpg

Do you have any better pictures of the intercoolers? What cores did you use?

I got the cores from bell intercoolers
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when i was mocking them up
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then i machined them flat
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If you have the height, green lightning has the right idea. I have seen that Vortech lid with inlets on both sides so your twin turbo plumbing could be very short and straight. Elbows are bad...

Tom, I never got a chance to thank you for all the help guess you were busy with the v-16 project the inter-coolers came out nice and work real well .
thanks Alan

When it was all said and done I had about a 1/2" to spare
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That's great work. I just noticed the CAD drawing on the bench; your 6" measurement was obviously accurate!

Thank you If you ever come through Syracuse let me know dinner is on me