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rob77 Veteran

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For that amount of money you could have had a trust vspl cooler. Nengun sells them for about 80,000yen delivered to your door (about $1070 going on current exchange rate) the only mods you need to do is make a hole for the plenum pipe to come up like yours has. Personally I think the welds look shocking and nowhere as neat as a jap cooler. Sorry, but these are a forum and I am entitled to my opinion :wave:

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Rob77, he paid $1800 including piping and labour. I don't think that's too bad. I take it the price you quoted from Nengun was just the cooler? Add in import duty, GST, freight, labour and piping and I'd say it'll be well over $1800. Of course, you can still do better than that too, my setup cost closer to $1500 (600x300x70).

Btw WLD747, there is no way that cooler is 700x400. I measured it on my screen and the ratio of length to height is around 3.2:1. The ratio of a 700x400 cooler is 1.75:1. It's more likely something like 700x220 or 800x250.

WLD747 Experienced

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the size is prob around 700 x 280 x 70. The price i quoted was just an rough figure wasnt more than $1600 but this upgrade was done within a day. But its usually cheaper if you leave you car there for a week or 2.

Labour is the main factor with intercooler upgrades. Very time consuming job. one more thing this includes a new electric radiator fan not clutch fan to make way for the cooler piping so it removes some weight of the engine pullys.

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ak

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planning to run lots of HP, ok it takes a couple of days to put on a cooler and make piping, depends on when the shop is busy. I had the guys working on mine most of the day so they could do it in one day. But i had the intercooler and piping ready.

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ak

rob77 Veteran

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Try www.nengun.siteblast.com.au, go to trust and you will see that the intercooler kit is quite reasonably priced. True that price does not include gst, but you may not pay gst on it *wink*. Anyway, the kit is complete and for most people more than enough, cheaper than some aussie kits.

Gradenko Mentor

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twin is good reduces lag from turbo and goes through the cooler at the top and bottom.  So ive heard.

Can you let us know what diameter the intake and outlet pipes are? Unless they've put some thought into it (and it doesn't look like it), this setup is going to do anything but reduce lag.

Also, while swapping to an electrical fan is no bad thing, it didn't have to happen. The route that piping takes definitely doesn't interfere with the clutch fan if its done properly. I've had a very similar layout in my car for sometime.

BTW, what possesed you to get a fake intercooler and GTR badge?

(mutters something demoralising about ricers)

ylwgtr2 Grand Master

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Originally posted by rob77

For that amount of money you could have had a trust vspl cooler. Nengun sells them for about 80,000yen delivered to your door (about $1070 going on current exchange rate) the only mods you need to do is make a hole for the plenum pipe to come up like yours has. Personally I think the welds look shocking and nowhere as neat as a jap cooler. Sorry, but these are a forum and I am entitled to my opinion :D

i agree with the weld comment........not to mention the use of what looks like steel piping...steel rusts therefore throwing crap into the engine.....In regards to twin inlet theres not really an advantage unless its a twin turbo...all your doing with a single turbo there is creating unwanted turbulence in the piping.... Border,nismo,ARC use twin entry on GTR intercoolers...its to stop the turbulence/clashing of compressed air between the 2 turbos

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personally I think the price is a bit high as it isn't all stainless piping and the size of the cooler is way to big. and the twin entry says to me these coolers were made for a different application.

the cooler on my sr 32 is 600 x 300 x 76 which is plenty big enough for 500 -600 hp bmt did the cooler piping. personally if you ahve a stock turbo there is no real need for a bigger cooler unless you plan on upgrading you turbo it a bigger one.

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ylwgtr2 Grand Master

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I'd say that cooler has been made with a 500-700hp GTR in mind. Its very large and has the twin entry's for the 2 turbos.

Dunno about fitting that to a big HP GTR...........:confused:

R31Nismoid Grand Master

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:D i thought it was a GTR when i first say the twin intake...

i agree with you troy, and rob77

The welds are average... The pipint isn't stainless and the cooler really is too big.

It'll induce to much lag being of that size.

My cooler is quite a fair size (ARC) and it's single entry, but i'm running a much bigger turbo.

i personally would like to see some bench testing of that twin and a Blitz/ARC/HKS single entry.

That would tell the true story.

Dr_Drift Veteran

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Personnaly I believe that running a twin entry cooler will reduce the effectiveness of a single turbo setup, the disturbance of the air flow through the splitter will surely cause restriction to airflow? There is the other point that it may direct more airflow through one entry than the other and cause pulsing??

In my opinion twing entry should only be seen in two things:

a) Twin turbo applications

B) Pornos.

Doc.

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