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gotRICE? Veteran

gotRICE?

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intake air temps would be worth talking about rather then the "BRAND" but im guessing many of you dont check that.. with back to back testing the garret cores seem to word really really well over the cheaper coolers look into airtake temps

True, but im sure people are going to go buy an intercooler, find that the intake temps arent that much better, then buy another one.

Nor do many people have access to each individual FMIC to do the test.

And as far as i have seen on this forum, the people that do pre and post intercooler temp readings are far and few between

paulr33 Grand Master

paulr33

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if its stock boost, then keep the standard intercooler

the issue isn't ambient temperature but how the car is driven and loaded up

if you go for a trash run and load it up flat out the standard core will become heatsoaked

that is, its full of heat and any air coming through it, won't experience a good temperature drop (or worse than before)

and because its a smaller core, in the side of the car it will take considerably longer for the heat to be extracted

so as you continue to load the ass out of it, the intake charge will be mega hot and the intercooler effieicny will be very poor

if you did this with a larger front mounted core the core would remain cold on the outlet side at all times

as the core is larger and its able to extract the heat easier and there is way more surface area and its directly in front

paulr33 Grand Master

paulr33

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if its stock boost it would be fine

next time you go for a trash run

stop the car

get out

feel the intercooler

one side should be hot hot hot

one side should be cold cold cold

if its efficient it will be like that

if its inefficient, ie heatsoaked, both will be hot hot hot

gotRICE? Veteran

gotRICE?

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Mine got overwhelming heat soak with an R34 SMIC. They dont get enough airflow for any real periods of hard driving. But all the comments are correct.

It will be fine at stock boost levels. A gauge is only an investment cosmetically untill you up the boost ;) I only ever splashed out on mine because i thought i was getting a lot of boost creep. And i was.. so it was an investment on my part (turbo wise :( )

If you start track racing or drags, you will find the SMIC in-effective.

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