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Offline azgearhed

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intercooler duct
« on: June 30, 2012, 08:32:29 PM »
Are you allowed to run an intercooler duct through the windshield in gas coupe?
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Offline azgearhed

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Re: intercooler duct
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2012, 07:33:40 PM »
 :?I thought there would be some opinion on this-I can't be the only one contemplating this set-up
BC Racing 1979 Z-28
AA/CBGC Record 251.802 Speed Week 2012
AA/CBGALT Record 255.382 Speed Week 2013
AA/CBGC Record 226.104 El Mirage Sept 2015
AA/CBFALT Record 227.954 El Mirage June 2016
AA/CBGC Record 267.878 Speed Week 2018
AA/CBGALT Record 236.458 El Mirage Nov 2016
It's a lot of work to have fun...

Offline jl222

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Re: intercooler duct
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2012, 12:47:10 AM »
:?I thought there would be some opinion on this-I can't be the only one contemplating this set-up

  Thats how we did it on the 222 Camaro. Intercooler in passenger seat area duct through Lexan front window.
  Retaining straps on ducts over silicon sleeves so they can't pull apart. Also straps to dash, blower, intercooler and blower plate to keep flex under boost under controll.
 Look under ''Getting ready for Bonneville'' in build diarys to see how we did it.

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Offline dw230

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Re: intercooler duct
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2012, 03:50:03 PM »
You run an Altered not a Gas Coupe.

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Re: intercooler duct
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2012, 07:49:50 PM »
You run an Altered not a Gas Coupe.

DW

  Yea, but gas coupe and altered are in the modified section and says what you can and can't do and it don't say
you can't :-D

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Re: intercooler duct
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2012, 02:48:11 PM »
A question such as this, extreme modification, should go thru the committee process.

Thanks for your help anyway,

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Re: intercooler duct
« Reply #6 on: July 09, 2012, 09:58:10 PM »
A question such as this, extreme modification, should go thru the committee process.

Thanks for your help anyway,

DW

  Compared to pg 40  3.X were positive diplacement blowers are allowed to be in the rotational plane of the driver
'' with SFI type restraint bag'' I don't how the committee could be against it.

  Positive type connectors to prevent tube seperations should be required.
 We added a strap from window tube to dash for extra safety.

 Remember the Strasberg's Corvett with the big Whipple blower in passenger seat area?

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Re: intercooler duct
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2012, 01:32:29 AM »
Gas Coupe class is closer to a Production car than ALtered, so I dought that intercooler tube going thru front windshield will be legal. In Gas Coupe and Production class the windows need to be complete and in their original postion and size, so no aerodynmic advantages can be utilized by a pipe going thru the front windshield, just my opinion, not SCTA opinion,  Dave  :cheers:
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