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Hi ladies and gents.

I recently had my built 25/30 tuned, now anything over 20 psi my intercooler just ran out of efficiency and intake air temps raised dramatically. Currently I have a cheap ebay cooler, what brand intercooler have people had success with? Having a look on forums intercoolers seem to be a non existing topic. Any advice would be great, Cheers!

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Whats your price range? If your willing to go up to the 800-1000 mark you can get a good pwr core or if thats out of your price range there is a cheap chinese brand takashi which is one of the better cheap coolers and work well for there price <$200.

You could put a massive intercooler on, but it won't help cool superheated air. Sounds to me like your turbo is too small, what are you running? Where is your temp gauge, and do you have one pre and post cooler?

Yeah I reckon the pwr would be a bit out of my price range being in tassie it doesn't exactly get that hot ha.

It already has a 600×300 cooler so I wouldn't think bigger or thicker would help much. Turbo is relatively small being a kinugawa t67 with a t04z compressor housing and 10cm rear turbine. Engine temp seems to be fine and sits around the 80° mark under load. I only have one temp sensor on the cold side of cooler piping.

I had a cooling pro front mount kit previously on my car and it pretty much dropped out after 265kw at 18 psi... in my experience not worth looking at.. your better off spending a bit more money to get some quailty gear..im running a entry level plazmaman and its been outstanding so far. Best of luck

I had a cooler pro on my R34 and I managed 320rwkw but my tuner said that was its limit, temps were starting to creep up above that so probably not worth looking at for you. If you want to do some reading jump on the Hypergear thread and search for all the results that Stao posted when he went through a heap of intercoolers for testing.

I think from memory he found that the PWR was best and also one of the standard GTR coolers was really good but I can't remember what model it was from. It'll be on there somewhere. I'd really suggest having a read of that

Ok cheers for the input guys, cooling pro seems to be a no go. I have heard good results about the base model plazmaman so that sounds the go. Il have a quick geez through the hypergear thread. I was at 345kw at which the cooler dropped it's efficiency.

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