Intercooler position

[memski]

Nothing, I\'m only running in at the moment but I\'ve found much cooler water temps since I raised it vertically and removed the ac condensor. Some people make ducts to the rad but mine fills the space fully and the fmic doesn\'t cover the entire mouth of the bumper. I get lower water temps when I\'m on the move - never saw lower than 83 before, 79 now when cruising.

[colin777]

it will be a thick koyo rad so that will help too. that good news

[strange_days_uk]

^ ive had no problems with mine

I have.  Hated it..

:mad:

[DRAGON]

SMIC\'s are fine, the Greddy one is very good. It just needs to be positioned and ducted correctly. Intake temps will rise on any IC set-up, when stationary.

[nikp]

SMIC\'s are fine, the Greddy one is very good. It just needs to be positioned and ducted correctly. Intake temps will rise on any IC set-up, when stationary.

I agree. I even found the stock intercooler did an adequate job of cooling intake temps.

[strange_days_uk]

SMIC\'s are fine, the Greddy one is very good. It just needs to be positioned and ducted correctly. Intake temps will rise on any IC set-up, when stationary.

:flamed

Perhaps mine wasn\'t ducted properly.  I found it useless...

[Cally]

SMIC\'s are fine, the Greddy one is very good. It just needs to be positioned and ducted correctly. Intake temps will rise on any IC set-up, when stationary.

I have an uprated one in standard position with only the little stanard part of ducting going up, is this enough?:3Confused

[Ricco_04]

:flamed

Perhaps mine wasn\'t ducted properly.  I found it useless...

I had 70 on the commander before with OE SMIC - 2 mins down the lane it had dropped over 30.

Dont forget where the standard intake temperature sensor sit\'s - it gets badly heatsoaked - an aftermarket sensor in a different position (say plastic elbow) will not heat soak and will read better and will refresh 10x faster and then the temps will look massively different again.

[nikp]

Dont forget where the standard intake temperature sensor sit\'s - it gets badly heatsoaked - an aftermarket sensor in a different position (say plastic elbow) will not heat soak and will read better and will refresh 10x faster and then the temps will look massively different again.

Bingo! That\'s exactly why I have a faster reacting sensor that I plan to mount in my plastic elbow. Just got to get round to doing it!

[Ricco_04]

Bingo! That\'s exactly why I have a faster reacting sensor that I plan to mount in my plastic elbow. Just got to get round to doing it!

Me too - although I havn\'t even looked into it yet! :spank

[colin777]

decided to go smic, found a arc intercooler with hks hardpipes and just bought a koyo rad too.

[strange_days_uk]

I had 70 on the commander before with OE SMIC - 2 mins down the lane it had dropped over 30.

Dont forget where the standard intake temperature sensor sit\'s - it gets badly heatsoaked - an aftermarket sensor in a different position (say plastic elbow) will not heat soak and will read better and will refresh 10x faster and then the temps will look massively different again.

A very true point, although mine always took ages to come back down to a reasonable temp.  Fine in winter I\'m sure..

[Ricco_04]

Yeah totally.  The first 20deg goes reasonably quick but who wants to sit at 50deg!

Today with cool weather & no boost it sat happerly at 25.  Should soon have a bigger SMIC on and will be interested to see the differences.  My choice out of them all would be V mount but dont want to change too drastically (oh and also ££ lol)

[adib]

hi guys was thinking of changing mine, but do need to get pfc remaped after your done it

[andysmee]

Nothing, I\'m only running in at the moment but I\'ve found much cooler water temps since I raised it vertically and removed the ac condensor. Some people make ducts to the rad but mine fills the space fully and the fmic doesn\'t cover the entire mouth of the bumper. I get lower water temps when I\'m on the move - never saw lower than 83 before, 79 now when cruising.

Just read this and I\'m confused, IIRC the standard rad cap only opens at 85 so how do you get 79 as your water temperature? isn\'t that too low?