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05-04-2003, 10:01 AM
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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.
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05-04-2003, 10:02 AM
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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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05-04-2003, 10:03 AM
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05-04-2003, 10:04 AM
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Small amounts are rolled out which will be used to create the seams
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05-04-2003, 10:06 AM
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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.
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05-04-2003, 10:07 AM
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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.
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05-04-2003, 10:09 AM
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looks like this
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05-04-2003, 10:09 AM
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05-04-2003, 10:11 AM
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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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05-04-2003, 10:12 AM
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05-04-2003, 10:14 AM
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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.
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#12
05-04-2003, 10:15 AM
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Look at the difference between the polished and unpolished tube now.
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#13
05-04-2003, 10:17 AM
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05-04-2003, 10:19 AM
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To paint the intercooler, I used AlcadII Chrome paint, it is brilliant and I can't recommend it enough
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05-04-2003, 10:25 AM
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what did you think of it .. i got it from onother website
i just wanted to show you guys how to make one
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