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Am I really going to see great benefits from an uprated intercooler?
Wooosh:
An efficient intercooler design can give the benefit 5% to 10% more power and resisit heat soak for longer, so you will see benefits its just deciding which 1 you wanna go with. :happy2:
Janner_Sy:
a few years ago me and Mike did some back to back logging of our cars in Chatham (Mine: Stage 2+ K03 TFSI on stock IC and Mikes Stage 2+ K04 with APR Cooler) on a warm day. Tthe stock IC was terrible in comparison iirc mikes car was running around 50oC cooler, and more importantly his IATs recovered back to normal really fast, whereas my stock cooler took an age to recover
GrayMK5GTI:
--- Quote from: Janner_Sy on April 30, 2014, 12:18:59 pm ---a few years ago me and Mike did some back to back logging of our cars in Chatham (Mine: Stage 2+ K03 TFSI on stock IC and Mikes Stage 2+ K04 with APR Cooler) on a warm day. Tthe stock IC was terrible in comparison iirc mikes car was running around 50oC cooler, and more importantly his IATs recovered back to normal really fast, whereas my stock cooler took an age to recover
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Good test Sy!
In the winter though, i'd imagine the stock intercooler copes fine when air temps are around freezing?
@OP intercooler wont help your figures on the dyno as dyno fans are usually enough to keep the inlet temps low, although a free-er flowing IC will give a few horses. It really is on the road & track (especially)where the IC helps :happy2:
Janner_Sy:
--- Quote from: GrayMK5GTI on May 01, 2014, 12:44:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: Janner_Sy on April 30, 2014, 12:18:59 pm ---a few years ago me and Mike did some back to back logging of our cars in Chatham (Mine: Stage 2+ K03 TFSI on stock IC and Mikes Stage 2+ K04 with APR Cooler) on a warm day. Tthe stock IC was terrible in comparison iirc mikes car was running around 50oC cooler, and more importantly his IATs recovered back to normal really fast, whereas my stock cooler took an age to recover
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Good test Sy!
In the winter though, i'd imagine the stock intercooler copes fine when air temps are around freezing?
@OP intercooler wont help your figures on the dyno as dyno fans are usually enough to keep the inlet temps low, although a free-er flowing IC will give a few horses. It really is on the road & track (especially)where the IC helps :happy2:
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When you consider they tuners say for every 1oC raised in the IAT you lose 1Hp, I was losing nearly 50Hp after every single 3rd gear WOT pull to the redline, and those temps took around 5 minutes of gentle driving to recover to the normal temp. so 5 minutes of around 50hp less to play with.
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