60-1 reliability issues?

[TheNewRed]

This is a gross oversimplification, but it gets the point across.

Def. sound right though, the thing looks like a heating radiator out of my elementary school.

 

[ATL88Supra]

i guess a good way to test that would be to test the charge temp before and after

 

[vas85]

The primary problem with the stock intercooler is it's lack of mass. It heat saturates in very short order. The more mass an IC has, the more heat it can soak up.

In real world driving, or on a road course, you need that mass to suck up heat during your brief moments of acceleration, then during your times of part or no throttle, the airflow pulls that heat away.

Yes the stock IC sheds heat quickly, but it has almost no ability to hold it, so it saturates almost instantly.

This is a gross oversimplification, but it gets the point across.

Supracentral you are my God Given me the reason I needed to install the an intercooler i've had when I got the car that's twice the thickness of the stock IC and a lot heavier. I thought that the weight was a negative but you're post makes total sense. Now to pressure testing that cooler and getting her on