Ebay intercooler + BOV + Piping I'm looking at

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I was right about to post this thread and then the site stopped respond to me all day.... I broke it.

 

Ok, so I'm thinking that in a month or so I'm gonna buy an intercooler, BOV, and build my own manual boost controller (unless I find one I can get shipped to me for less than $25... maybe $30, just to save me the time).

 

I'd just like some feedback from people's experience, and suggestions from things they learned. I'm posting this in the non-tech section because I though I remembered reading somewhere that pretty much ALL ebay auction threads should go here... so here I am. (feel free to correct me and move it accordingly if needed mods)

 

The engine is a L28ET (stock). I'm not planning on ever going over, let alone near 250wheel HP, more like 200-225 so I don't need a huge intercooler. I know that turbo L motors are going to have pretty high intake temps though, as the turbo is sitting right overtop the intake, so how big do I really need?

 

So here's a piping kit I've been looking at that comes with a BOV. Seems like a decent deal. Should be plenty of piping.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2-5-Universal-Alum-Intercooler-Pipe-Piping-Kit-BOV_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742Q2em153Q2el1262QQcategoryZ33742QQihZ018QQitemZ280214726967

 

The actual intercooler I've been really debating on. Mostly between these two:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2-75-CORE-28X9X-2-75-FMIC-INTERCOOLER-S13-SRT-CIVIC-BMW_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742Q2em153Q2el1262QQcategoryZ33742QQihZ018QQitemZ280213768005

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FRONT-MOUNT-INTERCOOLER-27X6X2-5-NISSAN-S13-S14-SR20DET_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742Q2em153Q2el1262QQcategoryZ33742QQihZ018QQitemZ280212308821

 

The total cubic inches of the first is 519.75, the second is 315. (taken by advertized core dimensions)

 

There's a third one I've been looking at but it for the added cost I don't think I like it. Due to where the air is going in and out it looks like it won't be as efficiant as either of the other two designs, but the overal core volume is 784, so it has a much larger core overall. Just not sure it's worth the price jump.

 

Here's that one:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/INTERCOOLER-28x8x3-5-Talon-S13-EVO-Corolla-Golf-Eclipse_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742Q2em153Q2el1262QQcategoryZ33742QQihZ022QQitemZ350043067512

 

I know that idealy I'd get an intercooler with both pipes coming to one side, but I can't seem to find any that are nearly as cheap as these, and I don't think I'll notice THAT huge of a different at these near stock HP levels.

 

So any suggestions comments are welcome. Thanks everyone.

 

EDIT: I'll probably go with this boost controller... Honestly, identical to what I was going to build, and probably for about the same price:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NXS-MANUAL-BOOST-CONTROLLER-GSX-240SX-300ZX-TURBO-WRX_W0QQitemZ250231158100QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item250231158100