You can only WISH to have the same workmanship as I, So explain whats so wrong with the work? Oh can you explain as well what's the problem with the intercooler, cause I can't see to understand your concept on it :smash:
The intercooler is one word...........JUNK.
Do you honestly think the core on this car is good.........especially for power production? Im going to keep this civil, and i hope you will also Chris.
This intercooler is engineered for airflow on a 4 cyl. No high cfm combination should be using a side tank intercooler with a super thick core and long tube length. It creates too much pressure drop. The friction alone going from one side of the core to the other robs power. Basically internal drag.......
I know peple will start barking about effciency...well temperature effciency is only one part of the equation. The other is flow.....you need both and its a balancing act. Ive seem people with these MONDO cores with LONG tubes brag about how there IATS only increase 5 to 10 degrees over ambient...especially with high boost. "my intercooler is killer effcient, my air is almost ambient....ill make gobs of power" lol. Too bad 3/4 of the air is still packed up on the hotside of the core just trying to get thru.
With a core thats balanced you should EXPECT to see an increase in IAT's thats reasonable.....30 to 40 over ambient is the norm. By product of compressing air is heat and its alot of it. Your typical non IC counter parts are well over 100* ambient increase and sometimes more depending on the effciency of the compressor and range its operating in.
Your core selection should be based on a few things.
Real Estate available
Core design (side tank or top bottom tank)
Amount of power you prepare to TRY and make thru it (mostly cfm requirements of engine)
You want to have as much area as you can of core, BUT with short tube design. This means that u want the airflow to run thru the core in the shortest available distance. The first few inches of bar and plate remove almost all the heat. The most heat comes out of the tube where the temperature difference between the inside and the outside is the greatest. The last inch of the tube, wherein the charge temperature is rapidly approaching the cooling material (core) temperature, will transfer very little heat, thus being of minor use. So your super large 4 inch thick side tank (long tube) is efficient from a temperature standpoint but useless to make power.
