alright so after almost of being supercharged and being non cooled, its time to put an intercooler on the bullitt. At the same time im switching to a blow thru setup and going to have Lito tune my car. Most of my parts I sourced from S&H performance, big thanks to Jeremy for answering all my questions and getting me the parts really fast. list of main parts I sourced...
1. HPX MAF
2. CX Racing DIY intercooler
3. Tial QJR bypass/bov
4. S&H walbro 405 fuel pump kit.
5. 3.6 pulley
Im still waiting on a few parts to show up...fuel pump, power pipe parts. Today I started the conversion. Pulled the blower, changed the pulley and clocked the blower. Plan for tomorrow is to pull the bumper and figure out a way to mount the intercooler. There are some threads on this site im looking to for reference, BruceH has a few.
spent most of the day today mocking up the intercooler and deciding how im going to mount it. once I figured that out I started with the piping. man its tight under the car with the 3" pipe but I custom cut a few pipes and have a very nice fit. Im really happy with how it has turned out so far. im just in need of a few more tbolt clamps and 1 coupler and then all the piping will be tightened down. I relocated the coolant tank about an inch to the left so that I could angle the intake pipe to the throttle body where I have the straight pipe that will hold the MAF, which I still need to have the flange welded to.
the non intercooled comes with a 3.8, Vortech said to drop one pulley size to 3.6 to add the 1-2lb boost back. I was hitting 10psi on stock pulley. Im only looking to have 8-10lb on this pulley. I will be able to make more power with better timing as my IAT will be much lower. Want to keep it at a safe number till next year when I order my aluminator.
Congrats on your paxton purchase. I run a novi 2200 right now on my 3v. I love the way it builds boost and allows you a split moment to get traction lol. I'm selling mine since I'm going another route but wish you the best with it.
that's weird bud. Ive read 3 or 4 threads with people doing this conversion and only 2psi at most was lost. I hope I don't have to go to an even lower pulley