if you could find one an arc is more than up to the job for average mods/power figures, i did some work on kyepans old gtir 2 years ago and that was on an arc intercooler, went well enough for a 1bar gtir but 1 bar is a pile of shite on a t28 :lol: it definately does the job but then again so does the standard topmount reasonably well, i think it was ashbhp that did 340 on a standard intercooler a few years backmarcymarc said:
like allen says, and without trying to sound like a complete @r5e im so f*cking uninterested in basic run of the mill parts i could almost cry at the very mention of them :lol:
theres so many cheap front mounts available now that will support over 400bhp it seems abit of a no brainer spending on a second hand arc topmount, you can, with abit of work get the front mount on without chopping the car to pieces.
if i was going for a stealth look on a averagely modded gtir i'd go with a barrel cooler, depsite what people say about charge coolers
the gtir turbo set up is almost perfect for one
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marcymarc
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diesel weasel said:
Arc have re-intruduced these top mounts so i could buy one brand new
The spec i have is a full mongoose,blitz filter and a walbro fuel pump, im going for a unichip fitted and mapped to 1.1 bar at noble motorsport in the next few weeks...so with what youve said it seems the arc intercooler will be fine.
yeah, it'll be fine, but so would the standard intercooler core running only 1.1bar, when looking at any realistic gains by swapping to an arc you'd have to see gains per pounds spent to see if it was a worthwhile swap.
its a shame we have no 'real tuners' involved with these cars on a personal level, back to backs of different set ups could be done then to prove or disprove any gains from one set up over the other..as it stands, everyones opinion of most things is purely their opinion..
it would be interesting to see what gains, if any could be had with an arc core over standard at the same boost levels,
if allen wasn't so gay :lol: we could stick a standard topmount back on his car and see what happens intake temp wise/power output at certain boost levels on the 3071 on a topmount, see if 400bhp is achievable, that would be an eye opener if it was 8)
its a shame we have no 'real tuners' involved with these cars on a personal level, back to backs of different set ups could be done then to prove or disprove any gains from one set up over the other..as it stands, everyones opinion of most things is purely their opinion..
it would be interesting to see what gains, if any could be had with an arc core over standard at the same boost levels,
if allen wasn't so gay :lol: we could stick a standard topmount back on his car and see what happens intake temp wise/power output at certain boost levels on the 3071 on a topmount, see if 400bhp is achievable, that would be an eye opener if it was 8)
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if they'd do it, get it mapped on the arc and then chuck a standard one back on to see if there is any difference in intake temps/output doing it that way your all set up on your arc core and it wont take 5mins to swap back onto the standard one
you can but ask
with the upcoming rolling road days theres a chance for some back to back runs between the 2 cores to be had, if a few peeps chipped in for the second run it aint going to cost alot for anyone interested to find out
on a different note, i was reading about a guy with a civic that made 70hp by swapping from an ebay core to a garret core, no other mods (allegedly) so better cores will make more power on their own, he was well over 500bhp at 2bar but shows how efficiencey of the intercooler not just size is very important
you can but ask
with the upcoming rolling road days theres a chance for some back to back runs between the 2 cores to be had, if a few peeps chipped in for the second run it aint going to cost alot for anyone interested to find out
on a different note, i was reading about a guy with a civic that made 70hp by swapping from an ebay core to a garret core, no other mods (allegedly) so better cores will make more power on their own, he was well over 500bhp at 2bar but shows how efficiencey of the intercooler not just size is very important
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davey red.r
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yeah me to. might get burberry jacket and drive around with the collar up:lol:
I bought it off a right nobber too :lol:diesel weasel said:
I fitted my tubular manifold and turbo elbow at the same time so i cant say for sure about the differance :doh: But at interpro last year it made 305 bhp at just under a bar and two 1 bar R's with topmounts both made about 275 bhp, but im not sure how much of that was down to the manifold and elbow!
30 bhp from a frontmount, tubular manifold, and turbo elbow seems like a good result to me though 8)