Strut braces clearing procharger?

[dennis]

BMR's went across mine fine, 1/2" to 3/4" clearance. It was originally hammertone, powdered for some pop:

Worth mentioning is that picture was before doing a BMR K-member, when I did the "K" I lost some clearance as I did not get the K that lowered the motor. Hard launches netted enough twist to net a slight touch on the engine cover. I shimmed the brace via a washer and it's fine.

Again, it was only close because of the K member change, running the oem K member I had plenty of room.

Additionally, I had gotten it to fit even with the prochargers air intake in their produced location, but as you will see in the picture, I relocated the Air intake. It's now in the front behind the Cervinis bumpers air slot on the drivers side. I'll see if I can dig up any old pictures of everything before all the changes.

Emay, thanks for the post. The color looks awesome on the parts.

 

[05bluestang]

I got this one from Blue Oval, was like 85 bucks or so, works good and clears my SC

 

[Emay]

i like that and now have my gears turning. i have never liked how my filter sits under my hood. how hard was the fabrication? any obsticles in getting it run to the new place?

Nothing that using your brain won't cure. I did this when the stock k member was on the car as well, and after I did the BMR add, there was much more room for routing everything. All I can say is take your time, keep an open mind as you plan your route.. Without being there, I can't really give much more direction than that. Hop one hurdle, another comes right after like anything else, but as you can see, it's possible.

 

[mac10chap]

I got this one from Blue Oval, was like 85 bucks or so, works good and clears my SC

yeah, but the air filter on the procharger is not in the stock spot. it is routed up by the driver's side of the intake manifold so just about every STB is hitting or sitting right over the filter so you cant mout the driver's side.

 

[05bluestang]

Ah, gottcha.......

 

[SilentScope]

yea that idea of putting the intake under the fender is much better. i wouldn't trust a supercharger that sucks in air from the engine bay, I/C'd or not, its always better to have ambient air..
I'd make the intake mod and then not have to worry about what brace you choose

 

[AE_Wido]

Poor photography skills back then, but here's one prior to intake fabalicious:

Wonderful. That is exactly what I was wanting to see. I am glad that one clears both...I really appreciate the posts guys.

 

[BLKS197]

Emay...can you dig up some pictures of how you relocated the intake?

 

[YLWNOR]

Great post thanks for the images to

 

[mac10chap]

Emay...can you dig up some pictures of how you relocated the intake?

+1...i need details...lol

 

[HOLYWD]

BMR's went across mine fine, 1/2" to 3/4" clearance. It was originally hammertone, powdered for some pop:

Worth mentioning is that picture was before doing a BMR K-member, when I did the "K" I lost some clearance as I did not get the K that lowered the motor. Hard launches netted enough twist to net a slight touch on the engine cover. I shimmed the brace via a washer and it's fine.

Again, it was only close because of the K member change, running the oem K member I had plenty of room.

Additionally, I had gotten it to fit even with the prochargers air intake in their produced location, but as you will see in the picture, I relocated the Air intake. It's now in the front behind the Cervinis bumpers air slot on the drivers side. I'll see if I can dig up any old pictures of everything before all the changes.

that is great !!!!!

 

[BLKS197]

+1...i need details...lol

What would be real clutch are some datalogs of intake charge temp before and after the relocation, but thats asking a lot.

 

[AE_Wido]

Since the IAT is changing you wouldn't have to retune the car would you? I would imagine that the temperature between the original intake location and the relocated position would be significant. Has anyone actually gotten a measure of the temperature differences?

 

[SilentScope]

Since the IAT is changing you wouldn't have to retune the car would you? I would imagine that the temperature between the original intake location and the relocated position would be significant. Has anyone actually gotten a measure of the temperature differences?

its like a 30F difference. underhood temps run along 110-130F and ambient air is more like 80

 

[Emay]

its like a 30F difference. underhood temps run along 110-130F and ambient air is more like 80

Cliff is right, although mine read a tad warm as it was pretty warm the day I was logging - 120 on the line. I'll see if I still have them, lost my hard drive last year and learned the hard way that it's a world where backing up data is a must. I had track datalogs of it in prochargers location, then a different day with different ambient temps (so slightly scewed), then 2 passes on the relocation and intercooler sprayer hosing down the A to A cooler from 2800 to 6200rpm which got me below ambient and then some..

As for more pictures, all of those I posted are about it, I'm not a very good photog when I'm in the midst of retro fitting. I start off good, and quickly fall off as I feel slowed by the camera.

I'f I ever pull any of it out, I'll try and get some pics for you.

 

[Tre06GTP1SC]

Cliff is right, although mine read a tad warm as it was pretty warm the day I was logging - 120 on the line. I'll see if I still have them, lost my hard drive last year and learned the hard way that it's a world where backing up data is a must. I had track datalogs of it in prochargers location, then a different day with different ambient temps (so slightly scewed), then 2 passes on the relocation and intercooler sprayer hosing down the A to A cooler from 2800 to 6200rpm which got me below ambient and then some..

As for more pictures, all of those I posted are about it, I'm not a very good photog when I'm in the midst of retro fitting. I start off good, and quickly fall off as I feel slowed by the camera.

I'f I ever pull any of it out, I'll try and get some pics for you.

It looks from your pic of the BMR brace with the intake in the stock location that its pretty tight. Did you have issues with it there? Also are these braces worth the money?

 

[Emay]

It looks from your pic of the BMR brace with the intake in the stock location that its pretty tight. Did you have issues with it there? Also are these braces worth the money?

It was tight, but not terrible. There was no rubbing at the brace and filter, as I rotated the intake tube closer to the cam cover to accomodate.

Is the brace worth the money - subjective question. So I'll explain a bit. When you first install the brace, normal daily driving really doesn't give you any seat of the pants difference that you come away saying wow, that brace works. It does if you drive hard in corners regularly, then install and do the same hard driving after.

Here's the deal though, and it's held true to everyone I know in the s197 community. Those that don't feel the difference after initial install, then pull it off after about a month or two of use, all say the car feels like shit up front once it's removed. So you notice it in the seat feel more after you take it away, than you do when you first put it on.

 

[Tre06GTP1SC]

Interesting.

 

[Mylilpony]

Resurrecting an old thread. has anyone put a strut bar on since this thread was started? My UMI bar doesnt fit with my procharger (p1sc went on this past thursday).