You do know that you don't need to post to subscribe to a thread right? I mean you are a mod. Unless you are trying to get you post count up or something. In which case, carry on.

 

i do not care to receive an email after every post. i just want to post in it so when i check 'my posts' i see it. i think i have enough posts already.

 

You can select no email notifications when you subscribe with the thread tools tab...

 

and it will still show up in my posts? damn, i've been posting in forums for over 10 years and never knew that. whenever i do subscribe to a thread it's for important reasons so i do want an instant email.

 

Yep!

 

dont get me wrong, the IC is big but the fact is GT35 or SPA 700 is perfect for it, because they both spool alittle slow but once it gets going -its going.. GT45/66/T70/77 is overkill.. lag, lag, lag..

a small IC is great and reliable, im not to worry about psi drop - just cold air, psi drop will make up for a bigger turbo with 3 Boost/BOV w/ controller.. fuel/ ign/ etc...

as for island - a few times during the year to get motor ideas.. like this IC and 2 K20's..

 

lmao, you don't think you'll have lag with with a gt35?

what are you going to do as far as fuel to support that big of a turbo?

 

I don't like it, but if you make it work for you setup then more power to yea, literally! Personally I think if someone is going to purchase this intercooler I hope they have in mind a front bumper swap as its usless having all that intercooler and only having cold air hit half of it. Either way, enjoy.

 

I don't think much thought process went into this. I think this was one of those, "it's bigger so it must be better."

 

its only june right now....so by thanksgiving your turbo should be close to spooling...

With that gt35 you are going to have to have a higher rev limiter otherwise it will spool, and you'll only get a little bit of glory, which will make it worthless.

What I don't understand is why such a huge intercooler when your running cryo through it...if your running a sort of cooling through the intercooler, then the size of that one is definatley over kill. You could have had more of an advantage by going with a smaller intercooler and running the cry0.

 

That is true as long as the Turbo can effeciently fill the volume of the IC. Bigger ICs generally have more flow capacity and lower pressure drops but bigger is not always better.

 

It would just take longer to fill up and delay peak boost a bit right?

 

Yes, and it may peak at less boost because of the huge volume. We dont really know until someone tests this IC.

 

i dont mind for the bumper and bumper cover will have a larger air port cut out for the IC..

this IC was very well thought out , and yes sometimes bigger is better depending on the application..

spooling may be an issue, but you never know until you try it.. it worthless if you dont know or try.

the other idea is keeping boost at a level to keep the turbo spooling most of the time.. like in rally cars @ 7-14 psi all the time - even in park

if you freeze air - tell me what happen to it.. then you'll understand the need for a big IC.

again - yes sometimes bigger is better depending on the application..

in quarter mile a small IC - is great (time)

in autocross a med to large IC - is great (distance)

in rally/circuit/closed circle track a small to med IC - is great (time & distance)

Im testing both S-Max IC's "Tuner" & "OEM" vs. the Hahn IC "OEM" next week.

I will post sheet asap..

 

Can't wait to see the results!

 

**** my crazy steve IC barely cleared my bumper i wonder how this will look finished

 

He is going to have to remove the crash bar for that thing to fit in there.

 

I wonder how the OEM one will look. and what price

they seem to know what they are doing though!

http://www.speedmaxperformance.com/


also
http://xenonworxhid.com/s-max-intercoolers.html

 

That's not the definition of pressure drop when talking about intercoolers, pressure drop is the difference between the in vs out pressure.
Yes it might take a split second longer to fill up the bigger intercooler but you'll never notice it.
And do us all a favor and learn to spell, this isn't grade school.

 

there's only one word that was spelled wrong was what and it was spelled wut on purpose.. douche.. if you need to stoop to bagging on spelling and grammar on a forum you really need to grow up

and do us all a favor and go take some physics ... yes you will notice.. slower spool and a pressure drop .. will happen... bigger just means it'll support more air and be harder to heatsoak.. which like the OP said .. this would be for auto x where your worried about heatsoak and not really going that fast to get more air going past the front mount .. not for road or drag the op understands why don't you ? will it be a HUGE issue probably not .. but a FMIC that big is not necessary at all

 

Douche? I'm not the one that needs to grow up, i'm way past name calling.

 

haha you can't be that far past it if you're picking on peoples spelling. it's a forum.. get over yourself i'm pretty sure everyone could understand me fine... no response to the actual comments i made aside from that.. ? lol

 

Back to the IC...I have posted before on this, but has anyone just changed out the ends on the stocker? It's not too bad of a design. I do think that HAHNs would be perfect if not for the thickness of it. IMO perfect IC for our little K04 would be height, length, and flow of HAHNS, and thickness of stocker. Again just my opinion...too tall-pressure drop, too thick-bad cross flow.

As far as this IC goes, thats a huge bitch. A little to big for our turbos.

 

You must of missed it, you'll never notice any slower spool with a bigger intercooler, you're talking about fractions of a second here not a couple seconds when you go to a bigger turbo.

 

that just looks like rediculous overkill