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THS Intercooler for the TFSI

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GTIjames:
its made in china and the fact people can sell for them as little as £80 speaks volumes, did you buy it from a big seller or someone who was duped into buying and then resold?

if you look in the centre of the core through the pipe inlets and compare it too the forge the difference is very noticeable.

the fact you have disconnected your stock intercooler to fit that IC is crazy, even forge themselves during testing found out that their fmic on its own did not work as well as the stock IC, that is why they came up with the twintercooler design which uses both IC's - only then did they see real improvements.

so i very much doubt you are seeing any gains apart from a placebo effect   

have a read : http://www.golfmkv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=76134&highlight=ebay+fmic

good luck

Jaywoo-GTI:
That isnt the same kind as mine, Mine is similar to the neuspeed one. I actually got it off a company the went into administration.

I am not on here to argue it is supperior to the forge one because i know it is not but it really isnt as bad as you are making out.

nick-barnes07:
the intercoolers we have got are not cheap crap ones as said above, and i am also running mine with the forge twin cooler pipes as well, the core is identical to the forge one's as well, it is obviously not as good as the forge twin cooler but certainly does the job!!! where do u think all the big company's get there stock from???? china/taiwan, there would be no money in it if they purchased them straight from england as the labour rate is to high in england , just because it is cheap doesnt mean it is crap!!!! they are £250 on e bay, £80 must of been bidding of e bay!!!!!  :happy2:

nick-barnes07:

--- Quote from: GTIjames on June 17, 2009, 02:04:05 pm ---Im not too sure if any of you have read the reports of those cheap ebay intercoolers over on golfmkv.com but it does not look good - issues with installing and quality of product -

its a copy of the forge but they use a different core which looks as cheap as chips, and I doubt will give you very much gain what so ever.

you get what you pay for, and imo its worth paying a few hundred pounds more to get a quality product which has been tested to have proven performance gains. 

each to their own but I would not touch it wih a barge pole let alone put it on a £20k plus motor

our intercoolers are also designed for the car, not a universal intercooler so fitment is a1

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bacillus:
I wonder if this Pro Alloy IC would work on our cars seeing a S3 IC does fit...
http://www.audi-sport.net/vb/showthread.php?t=74187

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