custom made IC?
03-23-2006, 06:41 PM
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custom made IC?
I have some questions regarding making a real big ic more suitable for my car. I searched and didn't find anything really on fabing volvo IC's smaller for civics. Is this even possible? How would one go cutting and tig welding this thing together? I want to make one if i get the huge volvo ic for cheap but was wondering if i just remove the plastic end tanks, making my own end tanks and welding it together? What about if i chop the hight down? what do i do about the bottem and or top? just weld a strip of aluminum on the top and bottem? any help would be appreciated. Thanks guys
03-24-2006, 02:11 PM
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Re: custom made IC?
Some of the OEM cores are a low grade aluminum and are hard to weld. It's further compunded by a cleanliness problem where they used epoxy to seal the end tanks.
I ran three DSM SMIC as a large 24X11X4 FMIC for a while, the car was fairly strong.
I ran three DSM SMIC as a large 24X11X4 FMIC for a while, the car was fairly strong.
03-24-2006, 06:03 PM
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thats one of the things i was worried about. do you have piics of how u did the smic? I don't know what type of grade the oem core i want to use is, is there a way to tell? I don't want to spend a bunch of money to only find out that it is worthless to do.
03-25-2006, 04:57 AM
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Originally Posted by UltimX
thats one of the things i was worried about. do you have piics of how u did the smic?
We ran out of gas on the welder 85% of the way through, it was 45 minutes to the welding shop, and the welding shop closed in 45 minutes. I decided it wasn't worth the stress, and patched the rest up with two part metal epoxy. Drove it for over a year, zero leakage.
I sincerely believe that epoxy with some sort of mechanical clamping action would hold on an endtank, or joint multiple cores, with no bullshit.
03-25-2006, 07:22 PM
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well, another question i have is where on the IC would you cut? In the middle of the fins or what? then just weld on a plate to the bottem? I have access to a tig welder so that will be sweet on my behalf.
03-25-2006, 07:30 PM
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I was looking at this pic that wir. posted (sorry for barrowing it)
So i'm guessing i'm going to be cutting it right below the tubes that go accross the core and weld on a bottem square piece of tubing? Does that square tubing hold charge in it aswell? It looks to be connected to the end tank but i'm not sure if it is open to the end tanks to hold charge. Make sense? If it is, i'm not so sure it is going to be worth the effort or cost effective to make this than to just buy a IC from someone or a place like CCA.
So i'm guessing i'm going to be cutting it right below the tubes that go accross the core and weld on a bottem square piece of tubing? Does that square tubing hold charge in it aswell? It looks to be connected to the end tank but i'm not sure if it is open to the end tanks to hold charge. Make sense? If it is, i'm not so sure it is going to be worth the effort or cost effective to make this than to just buy a IC from someone or a place like CCA.
03-25-2006, 10:24 PM
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You CAN NOT cut the core, AT ALL. There is a header (end) plate that is individually soldered to each and every last tube - you cannot replicate this. You cut the end tanks off as close as possible to the header plates and go from there.
03-26-2006, 01:50 AM
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^^Sure you can...someone try it and post pics.... 
Good advice actually..i've been waiting on pics and especially destruction pics like what Joseph said not to do.....DON"T DO THAT!! Listen to him and don't cut the core!!
Good advice actually..i've been waiting on pics and especially destruction pics like what Joseph said not to do.....DON"T DO THAT!! Listen to him and don't cut the core!!
03-26-2006, 02:29 AM
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even with a skilled tigwelder couldn't weld them back together? if u cut the header inbetween the tube wouldn't u still be able to use it? Looks like just buying a IC is looking to be more of an option. 
