How do you install an intercooler in a 1998 mitsubishi eclipse GSX?

I have a 1998 Mitsubishi eliclipse GSX, and i purchased a ECLIPSE GSX GST DSM 4G63 TURBO INTERCOOLER+PIPING on ebay. I'm not sure how to fit and hold the intercooler on my car, and the pipping doesn't seem to fit (the shape of the tubbing) from the intercooler to the engine./turbo. I would really appreciate any help, or any directions to where i can get a diagram or instructions. Thank you!|||Without seeing the kit it's difficult to tell. The intercooler should have flanges on the ends. Sometimes there are predrilled holes and sometimes not. You'll have to fit the pipes to the engine first. Are there instructions with the kit? If not you'll have to determine which pipe goes where. It should fit, unless you got a really cheaply made kit that just kind of fits. If it won't fit you'll have to try and modify it. Good luck. But make absolutly sure it doesn't fit, in any order, two or three times over before trying to beat it into submission.


When you get the pipes to fit on both ends, fit up the intercooler and see where it would best be mounted. If it has pre drilled holes, mark them on the frame of the car or a radiator bracket, where ever they fall. If there are no pre drilled holes then you get to pick and choose where you want to drill them. So mark the intercooler, take it back off, drill the holes, put it back on, mark the holes on the frame or rad brackets, take the intercooler off and drill those holes.





NOTE: Some intercoolers are flow directional meaning that the air flows better through the intercooler one way. If this is the case the inlet and outlet should be marked some way, either by arrows or words. Before you drill any holes make sure the intercooler is oriented correctly.





Now take everything back off.


Start by working from the turbo forward, install one pipe at a time, making sure the connections are somewhat tight, then do the intercooler and finally to the intake. Now afer averything seems to be fit right, tighten down all of the clamps and fittings that join the pipes together. Hook up any sensors of valves you need to and you should be good to go.





Like I said without seeing your exact circumstance it's hard to give detailed advice. This is just a general guide.