How To Built A Custom Intercooler

The face of the intercooler is made from a styrene sheet available from Evergreen which has grooves in it, normally used in railroad modeling. This is not thick enough on its own so two 30 thou and one 20 thou plain styrene sheets were sandwiched together.

Stage 2:

The end pieces are made from 4 triangular shapes cut from 10thou sheet with styrene tubing placed in between.

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Small amounts are rolled out which will be used to create the seams

After it is placed in position, a old large bristle is rolled over the slither of putty in order to create the texture of the weld.

Here is the finished intercooler so far, if you want you can still add more weld seams around the pipe, but since you won't see them there is little point.

looks like this

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Stage 5: Adding Pipes

The purpose of the next stages is to help hide away the empty space behind the front intake/grill of a curbside kit. Carrying this out really depends on what model you're adding your intercooler to and the size of the visible area.

To make the pipes I used aluminum tubing, which you should be able to get from good model stores, the smaller size is 1.7mm and the larger size is 2.4mm, which makes it about right for the 2.5" size tubing on the full scale items. The tubing is quite soft and easily cut through with a No.11 blade.

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The reason for using metal is obviously for realism, the aluminum tubing can be buffed to a nice shine, so that's what I did. First I gave the tube a light sanding with 1500 wet & dry then polished with Autoglym Paint Renovator, but any polish will do.

Look at the difference between the polished and unpolished tube now.

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To paint the intercooler, I used AlcadII Chrome paint, it is brilliant and I can't recommend it enough

what did you think of it .. i got it from onother website
i just wanted to show you guys how to make one

Are you sure this is your tutorial?

Edit: I see you do give at least some credit ... should have done this in the first post, not in the last though! :rolleyes:

And I hate to break this to you, but this tutorial is very well known to us and is written by one of the members here.

no i told you i got it from onother website

if you wanna go there its briansmodelcars.com they show you more
stuff. i told the owner if i have permision to post it in AF

i dont know how to put them in one post
someone plz tell me how

The owner has posted this on AF, but I'll leave it to his discretion.

ops sorry i didnt know cuz im a newbie here

Hmm, the search function is still a little bit iffy, as I can't seem to find the original thread..

The original Intercooler Tutorial (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t59570.html)

sorry guys for posting this thread i didnt know there was
allready this thread:rolleyes:

No harm done, n00b! :)

As punishment, spend the next few hours/days/whatever reading the FAQ, if you have read the FAQ, re-read it. You might actually find the answer to tyour picture posting question. Enjoy your stay.

Originally posted by daggerlee
Hmm, the search function is still a little bit iffy, as I can't seem to find the original thread..

Bwah!!!!!! If you look at the beginning of Chris's thread (link posted above and in the FAQ) you'll see that you were the reason this tutorial appeared in the first place! :p

:silly:

I say a tempban should be sufficient! :devil:

No harm done guys, he obviously didn't try to pass it off as his own.

But yes Machinehunter, i've already shown them how to do this one:D;)

ok guys ill spent the next 2 days reading the FAQ toturial:flash:

Originally posted by ales


Bwah!!!!!! If you look at the beginning of Chris's thread (link posted above and in the FAQ) you'll see that you were the reason this tutorial appeared in the first place! :p

:silly:

Who? Little ol' me? :uhoh: ;)

Originally posted by machinehunter
ok guys ill spent the next 2 days reading the FAQ toturial:flash:

Have fun and learn! :)

from now and on im not gonna post in old threads cya all in monday

Originally posted by machinehunter
from now and on im not gonna post in old threads cya all in monday


Oh come on! Take more time off then that! Relax, have a beer, retake your elementary english classes... :mad:

Nice how to have been wondering how to go about this as I have a couple of kits that would benefit from a cooler :)