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Old 12-29-2002, 09:48 PM
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I bought a brand new intercooler for $50 bucks. Its dimmensions are 28" tall, 30" wide, 2"thick. Its a really nice unit, I was just wondering if I could cut this thing in half longways with the passages that go across it and have custom end tanks made for it. I know it would theoretically work, but should I bother with all that work or should I just sell this monstrosity for a better sized intercooler. It is a really good brand though, its a behr. Behr supplies Ferrari with some of their oem intercoolers. Any feedback would be great, thanks in advance
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Old 12-29-2002, 09:58 PM
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if you want to spend the time and the money it would probably be worth it. theres a guy that takes powerstroke intercoolers, cuts them down, welds end caps on them, shines them up and sells them on ebay for like 400 bucks a piece.
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Old 12-30-2002, 12:25 AM
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I bought a garrett one off a semi for 100 cdn and cut it into 5 -6" sections they are really wide and require a lot of cutting but look sweet.

All i did was cut thru all the fins and then throught the endtank leaving a lot of it and then cut it all out. Dont cut it close to the fin part tho. Then I ground down a bunch and welded some high quality aluminum for end tanks. Added 2 2.5" inlets and its all good. checked for leaks first of coarse.

I would get it done if I did it again because of the hassle grinding and getting pieces to line up perfect ttoo k me about 8 hours.

Also I sold the other 4 cores on ebay for like 60 US a piece
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Im planning on doing it myself, I just dont have access to anything that can weld aluminum. If nothing else I will cut all the peices myself and just have a shop do the welds




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Old 12-30-2002, 11:58 AM
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That is the best way. I also used a mig welder somehow to weld the aluminum dont ask me how i still dont know how it worked
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you can use a spool gun on a mig to weld it.
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