The intercooler is an integral piece of equipment within the turbo charger system. It acts as a heat exchange for the compressed air that is forced through the raging hot turbine. Most all intercoolers in Japan use air as the agent for cooling however there are some that use water to transfer the heat from the intercooler core. There are three types of Intercooler kits that are made here. FMIC which means Front Mount Intercooler Kit and has the intercooler mounted in the front of the car behind the bumper. TMIC which is Top Mount Intercooler Kit and finally SMIC, or Stock Mount Intercooler Kit. The difference is that some SMIC intercooler kits are not top mount. The compressed air flowing through a tuned turbo system can reach over temperatures of 100 C. The thing that makes this a bad situation is that warm air is more prone to detonation, knock or pre-ignition. So the warm air is less dense and not good for performance and the large turbine you run the hotter your intake air is going to get. Not all intercoolers are created equally and bigger is not always better. Intercoolers come in many different styles and there is a fine technology behind a core and its cooling capability. It is possible for you to buy a cheap intercooler kit that has a larger core and have it be less effective than a good Japanese intercooler of lesser size. Some factors to consider is internal passage size, internal passage design, weight and core size. The Trust Greddy Spec R intercoolers are our most popular intercooler kit.
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