View Poll Results: new intercooler?
new air to air
24
72.73%
new air to water
4
12.12%
remove the intercooler totally - at 6lbs you don't need it
2
6.06%
leave it alone - your IATs are fine
3
9.09%
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Is my IAT too high? Do in need a better intercooler?
07-11-2008, 03:04 AM
#21
I have a big front mount intercooler setup for sale that is complete and ready to go for you. It is brand new and i was going to use it but decided i would need the money for some more parts for my engine...It uses a 31x12x3 intercooler and all mandrel one peice pipes painted black (might get them powdercoated but thats only if you want them powdercoated. ALso includes black silicones clamps and all the T-bolt clamps you will need to install it. Lemme know!!! 
07-11-2008, 08:21 PM
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Half the time when you bring your car to be tuned, the tuner will have to make the best out of the car for what the setup is. If his IAT's were already through the roof, the best he probably could do was tell him to run race gas, or bump down the timing to make things safer.
07-11-2008, 09:29 PM
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I have tuned cars before, when people are using smaller IC setups then their setups are requiring, or they used powdercoat or spray paint on the IC's. If you do anything to stop the cooling properties of the IC it will do what is going on with his car. I will advise the customer to come back with a better more efficient setup rather than taking a risk of melting some pistons. Or not getting what he paid for which would be a tune that is supposed to be getting safe performance out the car.
Obviosly it is more ideal if the IAT's are nice and cool.
07-18-2008, 07:34 PM
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So yes your AITs are way high
For that level of boost. You have some other issue happening although I couldn't say what. No functional i/c system I have ever heard of would let you run that warm at 5psi. Do you know where your timing is pulling to?
For that level of boost. You have some other issue happening although I couldn't say what. No functional i/c system I have ever heard of would let you run that warm at 5psi. Do you know where your timing is pulling to? 
07-21-2008, 01:04 PM
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Ok - I am convinced - I bought a front mount air/air intercooler kit - will post some pics and data once I install it. thx for the advice everyone.
11-29-2008, 12:15 PM
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Wow those are HIGH IAT's I have a 99 T/A with a front mount IC last log I did was on a 75 degree day, cruising my IAT;s were 90 to 95, but WOT was 75 to 80 degrees. My FMIC is a 3.88" core 22" long and 17" tall. Instead of getting a bigger intercooler you have other options, a Methanol injection kit, or a spray bar, with cryo kit. The cryo kit uses a spray bar for the IC, plus you can get it with multiple tear drops. The tear drops are stainless steel, they are inserted into the charge pipe in different locations, they have a stainless tube that runs thru the center of them thru each side of the charge pipe, with A/N fitting on each end so CO2 can be sprayed thru them and the spary bar, to coll the temps down. I personaly like the methanol kits, I run one on my car with 100% meth no water mix, whcih allows me to run 12 PSI thru my GT67 on a stock LS1 with 151.000 miles on it, the 100% meth gives a huge onctaine boost, plus 20 to 30 IAT drops.
11-30-2008, 09:05 PM
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Truthfully the inlet temps are not unreal.Loom at Maggie's,everyone I've tuned has had inlets near there if not past that.
I bet your intercooler is fine,the problem is no air flow going through it to cool the intake charge.Is there an air damn in place to direct the air up through the intercooler while moving?
I bet your intercooler is fine,the problem is no air flow going through it to cool the intake charge.Is there an air damn in place to direct the air up through the intercooler while moving?
