Thread: Phenolic Intercooler for your Gen3/Gen5 M90, L67/L32 3800's - LOOK INSIDE

One sold and one left ready to go.

This is a great intercooler.. Recently installed one and I have no complaints..

Bump

There is a lot of info in the first post, but I do have one intercooler ready to go. I can set it up as Gen 3 or Gen 5 doing the final machining before I ship.

In short here is my recommendations.

The bosch pump is ¾ barbed fittings. The hose and FMHE will be ¾ barbed fittings from frozenboost. The phenolic intercooler is 5/8 but with the fitting and 2 molded hoses from summit racing you convert to ¾ hose.

Frozen Boost
1 ¾ Water to Air Intercooler Installation Kit (350/600HP) [WAT001012]
2 ¾ Water to Air Intercooler Pump and Harness, Bosch Cobra [WAT001001]
3 (6) Stainless Steel 0.75" Worm Gear Clamp (13-23mm) [CLA001030]
4 FMHE to fit your vehicle.

Summit Racing
1 (2) ¾ to ¾ Dorman Heater Hose Connector Fittings 47095
2 (2) ¾ to 5/8 Goodyear Molded Bypass Hoses 63726- SummitRacing.com
3 Loctite 37464 - Loctite RTV Gray Silicone Gasket Maker $5.99—--Loctite 37464 - Loctite RTV Gray Silicone Gasket Maker


Also need modified fuel rails from the 3800 vendor of your choice. Intense, ZZP, Wbody store.

Yes for gen 5. I have intercooler ready, manifold will take a week if you need one

Hello, I am curious what type of Phenolic material you are using. Is it Bakelite: Made from wood flour and phenolic resin, or is it Novotext, Paxolin, or Tufnol: This type of phenolic resin is reinforced with cotton or linen fibers and is often used in applications as a liner in loaded bearings, because it has low-friction. The reason I ask is because in the 2 videos of yours that I have seen the material looks like and behaves a lot like UHMW: Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene which also carries decent insulation properties. The reason I ask is just so I am sure exactly what I would be buying.

In using Garolite from McMaster Carr.

CNC computer won't boot so phenolic intercoolers are on hold. Retrofit of machine can be very costly so I won't have intercoolers for awhile.

Intercooler expect to jump to 3.4
Add header and exhaust 3.3 to 3.2
Rockers or cam even more

As always nothing beats a good tuner and scan for knock!

http://www.grandprixforums.net/showthread.php?t=67580

Originally Posted by johntremell

With your intercooler I would be able to drop 4 pulley sizes?

I have one.. I dropped from a 3.4 to a 3.0. I added ported heads at the same time, but it's still a good IC.

Doing an XP cam ls1 maf and Northstar setup with Gen V supercharger on my 97 in 2 weeks. Does your inter cooler come ready to bolt to my setup

Originally Posted by sseilmnop

CNC computer won't boot so phenolic intercoolers are on hold. Retrofit of machine can be very costly so I won't have intercoolers for awhile.

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Originally Posted by sseilmnop

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