ollygee

Can i put a Sti top mount intercooler in my Impreza sport ?

Thanks

greg320

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why?

the sport hasnt got a turbo

ollygee

just for looks really it has the Sti bonnet with scoop but currently juts sits over the top of the big standard airbox.

Aztec Performance Ltd

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Is this a wind-up?

ollygee

im confused my friend has a GX model with the intercooler on ? i just wondered if it would go on mine too.

Butty

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I think a non functioning front mount would look cooler.

Splitpin

And, more to the point, a non-functioning front mount would look cooler when the car isn't moving, as it wouldn't suffer from heat soak.

Olly, don't Sports have a plenum chamber behind the throttle body in the position where the intercooler would be on a turbo car? If so you clearly won't be able to fit a real IC in there without removing it?

Even if you can, I can't really see why you're bothering. The only way someone can see what is (or isn't) inside your scoop is if they're standing in front of your car looking into it from a fairly tight range of angles. Given that anyone standing that close will already realise your car's a sport, or is too busy sh*tting themselves at being about to be run over by you, what are you gaining here?

ollygee

well basically it has the sti bonnet with scoop and wanted to mod my airbox to utalise the air flow from the scoop, sorry im a total newbie to scoobies.

Aztec Performance Ltd

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Take a picture of an STi TMIC from the top and print in colour, laminate and stick it under the scoop

Butty

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Cruel

Splitpin

Hmmm, given that you are, as you say, new to all this, the bottom line is that you're going to need to learn a hell of a lot more about the way your engine works before trying any modifications like this. If, for example, your car uses a mass airflow sensor, you won't be able to "modify your airbox" in this way, period.

You're also not really in the best place for specific advice, as, for obvious reasons, most of us here know very little about the specifics of the normally aspirated Imprezas. Have you tried www.imprezasport.net?

Splitpin

Sarky. That's nearly as bad as suggesting someone make a CD of WRC engine noises instead of fitting a silly dumpvalve.

Aztec Performance Ltd

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Oooh, that could work

Or tune the radio into a blank MW station for the sound of a straight cut gearbox

Aztec Performance Ltd

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Oooh, that could work

Or tune the radio into a blank MW station for the sound of a straight cut gearbox

Hyperflow

NO, not without modifying brackets and changing stuff around that your car actually needs to run.

midnight

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, but bob wont the rush of cold air coming in from the scoop rip it straight off pmsl - lol

Splitpin

Alright, I know I shouldn't, but, I've got to ask. Olly, your friend with the GX and the intercooler. Has it got a dump valve as well?

53

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Yep fits in the footwell tidy