Ok, so as some of you know I had my car up to full stage 2 spec running a Forge FMIC setup with standard front bumper. I was running 219bhp proven on CC Tuning's Dyno. Since then I decided I was going to sell the car, so took the Forge off and sold it. Well since then I changed my mind and decided to seriously change the car's setup!

 

Now it's worth pointing out that without the Forge FMIC on, the car still ran pretty much as quick as it was with it on - although there was more smoke as a result of the higher temps. I did a fair few runs with it and it never went into limp mode once to my surprise.

 

I recently bought an Airtec FMIC kit and did the front bumper widemouth mod at the same time. Prior to this I knew that I was going down this route, so decided to get some logs of what the intake temps were. On a few runs in succession the intake temps got up to over 100 degrees!

 

As I'm fitting the 2260 in the next week, I decided to get some more logs with the Airtec fitted and widemouth done. Granted the outside temperatures were about 9 degrees colder than the run I did with the standard cooler fitted, but the results really are impressive! No matter what I did to the car I could not get it over 21 degrees! I did some more live runs this afternoon when the temperature was only 5 degrees less than the standard cooler runs, to find that I genuinely could not get the temps to get over 23 degrees. The car is actually a fair bit quicker with this cooler on. I noticed the difference as soon as I drove it - pulls so much harder at the top of the revs.

 

I've popped the results very roughly into a graph for people to see the difference...

 

 

 

 

As you can see, the blue line (Airtec cooler) remains extremely flat, with only minor rises when I put my foot down to the red line in 4th gear a couple of times. The red line is the original cooler - I paused the logs in between runs at the time, hence not being a constant line.

 

So for anyone who needs proof that a decent front mount intercooler makes a difference... here it is!

 

any uprated cooler is better than a standard 1

Great to see graphs of the testing,and thanks for taking your time to post them up,and the difference is way more than I expected  :sun:

 

any uprated cooler is better than a standard 1

 

No **** sherlock! 

I have logs from a standard car. Within 20seconds at WOT you can be at 90c.

I also done this before fitting my evo cooler.

Before was high 90's . After it was really low 20's

That's an impressive result!

Thanks for spending my money for me!

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Good info Alex. Glad you are happy with it

I could get 80 degrees on standard intercooler on a standard turbo!

 

When I first bought the car I got now, it had a hybrid but the standard cooler had been put back on.  I could also consistently hit 90-100 degrees! I did try water/meth cooling at first, which did bring the temps down to 50 degrees

Great comparison, did you do the logs using vcds?

Yes mate, VCDS-Lite. Granted it's not a direct comparison, as the ambient air temperature was lower when testing with the Airtec. Another 5 degrees outside shouldn't make that much difference though!

Excellent, yes I'm sure 5 degree ambient wouldn't be responsible for an 80 degree difference

what modifications are needed to move from SMIC to FMIC?

 

im guessing all brackets/tubing would come with cooler

what modifications are needed to move from SMIC to FMIC?

im guessing all brackets/tubing would come with cooler

Brackets and tubing usually come with the cooler, if its the seat sport type cooler you are going for the front bumper and slam panel will need modifying for it to fit aswell as the crash bar.

Unsure about other coolers but I'd imagine similar modifications are also required.