![]() ![]() ![]() Easier to recoup costs and turn a profit that way. Treadstone develops a few universal cores and has a market of. ![]() Here are logs from my $250 Treadstone TR8 running 6-10 degrees over ambient on an 80+ degree day.Ĭompanies that have spent years specializing in a few, certain universal parts, like Treadstone does intercoolers, can charge much less for a comparable or better product than a company that has to do R&D for a one-off, application-specific product. Why blow hot air into the engine?20 degrees over ambient for APR's $900 intercooler, that's a good deal. You might run less boost, but you'll be faster. The stock FMIC was usually keeping IAT at 40* above ambient. The IAT's are 20* above ambient, even when it's 85+ degrees out. Īfter my APR FMIC, there was no noticeable lag at all, my car got faster though. When I used tune subaru's, intercooler upgrade were the first thing I recommended after a turbo back exhaust, you could run a solid 2* more timing across the board with cooler IAT'S. ![]() How then did APR make 17whp on a stage 1 b8.5 A4 tune with only the addition of their intercooler? $750 for an intercooler is cheap!! My Process West TMIC for my subi was $1200. Intercoolers are far more important than most people realize. It's a POS!! Plastic end caps, ultra thin tube and fin design, it weighs almost nothing and the pressure drop across the core is large. The stock intercooler is barely adequate for stock boost levels. ![]()
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