Arc Intercoolers.

[rev210]

The panel is secured by a number of screws. Only the forward facing section need be removed and is easy to replace if needed.

You will find as I have that no foriegn matter flicks up into the cooler at all, I have had mine removed for almost 3 years and no damage what so ever (including a few trips on open gravel roads).

On the dyno people:

why bother telling you that it was hot?

Even big coolers can get hot dyno tuning, especially around the intake part, you'd have to be a idiot to touch it or even want to.They probably just wanted to sell you their own intercooler kit.

In terms of getting the top part more air, you could fashion a 'channel' to direct air towards the top from the 'open' bottom half.

[warrior_350]

Them telling me that it was getting too hot was their excuse for not being able to tune out some misfiring at around 4-5000rpm, saying that it was the intercooler's fault. I'll be getting my plugs/coils checked soon as i think these might be the problem.

And yeah, i did get the impression that they just wanted to try to sell me a FMIC. Doubt i'll be going back there again. Hmm I probably could get some sort of a fin put in to deflect some air up the top half, a cold air partition and with a R34 IC things should be alright.

Thx for your ideas

[rev210]

the missfire is almost never going to be the stock coolers fault. Not unless you are running an enourmous turbo.