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Intercooler Core
Looking for an Intercooler core, not a kit just the core. If anyone has any recommendations for an FMIC core, I would appreciate it, we will fab the pipes so I just need the core. Thank you for your help.
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Vibrant didn’t have anything that would work for you?
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Treadstone, Garrett, Bell are all great cores. Garrett gets my vote if you want absolute IAT reduction but sizes are limited.
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Garrett or Bell are both good brands. Bell is coming out with a new core design that will give them a bigger advantage, but it's not out yet.
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Interesting, bar and plate or tube and fin?
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Bar and Plate. Tube and fin is nice, but unless you're making +10K of them the pricing is just nuts.
While a tube/fin offers thermal efficiency benefits and less weight, they have higher pressure drop (size-for-size). A larger bar/plate can offer the same and better performance in a larger size, and a lot less money, but there is weight penalty. For us, we see the price point of an intercooler to be no more than $1,800 (and it better perform!). That is just not feasible with tube/fin. I HIGHLY recommend staying away from budget prices cores, tube/fin or bar/plate. Intercooler cores are like catalytic converters. It's very much a get what you pay for product. A $100 core does not perform anywhere near that of a $500 core (size-for-size). We've used the major brands of course out there and prefer Bell. Even before this new core is released. They make a good product and their customer support has been terrific. |
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