V6Sprout
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Well I finally decided to cut up that lightning IC I have, I was told it leaked thus the reason I got it so cheap, these things are damn near $900 from FORD, I got this one for $33 off eBay. Anyways I cut both end tanks off to find that the IC core is actualyy TWO cores, which is perfect sicne I wanted to cut it in half, now I have TWO good cores, sweet. I am gonna have the inlet and outlet come out the rear or may be the front like the cobra, and I want to ultimately use the Cobra blower since the lightnign may sit too high even for a cowl hood, but witht he smaller IC the blower will sit much lower, check out the pics. There are a lot
almost looks like it had been attempted to be fixed already, the case didn't look hacked up so I wonder if FORD tests these first and welds them up where they leak when they assemble them?
Interesting the coolant flows across the top then throught the bottom, or vice versa, I thought it flowed one side then down the other side, but nope, top to bottom which really makes more sense now that I think of it, its just the way the tubes are setup made me think side to side.
cores cut in half.
and now sitting on my custom intake witht he lightnign adapter plate and a Suprecoupe blower for reference sake.
and the orginal height it sat at before I cut the IC
almost looks like it had been attempted to be fixed already, the case didn't look hacked up so I wonder if FORD tests these first and welds them up where they leak when they assemble them?
Interesting the coolant flows across the top then throught the bottom, or vice versa, I thought it flowed one side then down the other side, but nope, top to bottom which really makes more sense now that I think of it, its just the way the tubes are setup made me think side to side.
cores cut in half.
and now sitting on my custom intake witht he lightnign adapter plate and a Suprecoupe blower for reference sake.
and the orginal height it sat at before I cut the IC