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turbo lag affected by the size of the intercooler?


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full 3'' system made a missive gain on my car

I was told by everyone to get a 3" exhaust on the gtir.

I rang turbo vehicles and then Steve Murch and asked them their opinion and they both said for a T28 to run a 2.5" exhaust.

A gtir with a std turbo will get too much free spool with a 3" and will lose hp.

For a wrx or an evo a 3" is perfect.

An rb20det a 2.5", an rb25det and upwards a 3"

So each engine is different...and for each size turbo its different.

The best way to get an exhaust for a turbo car is to talk to someone who really truely knows what they are talking about...a professional if you will.

And again this is the same with intercoolers and their sizings and flow capacities AND their piping sizes. The length of the piping makes a large difference too. On a quarter mile drag run most street cars with a fmic wont actually get any benefit from the intercooler being at the front of a car until after 3/4s of the way down the track. Heat wrapping intercooler piping will also effect their performance as keeping the radiant engine heat out of them will make the lag less and make them more efficient. A well flowing decent thickness top mount intercooler is excellent as long as the car is moving at more than 50kph. Its only at low speed and at a stop where they lose all usefulness.

Like hot air in the engine bay also increases the amount of bogging a car has upon take off from a stop, so heat wrapping or ceramic coating exhausts makes your car bog down less on takeoff.

Anyway IM TIRED AND AM STARTING TO not know if any of this is making sense at all...so i will end my post now.

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On a quarter mile drag run most street cars with a fmic wont actually get any benefit from the intercooler being at the front of a car until after 3/4s of the way down the track.

Actually the intercooler acts as a heat sink, with no external air flow (car not moving) it will absorb heat from the air flowing through it until it's temperature rises to the same temp as the air flowing through it.

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im running a pretty big fmic on my escort

350x450x70 (i think) with 3" in and outlets

standard c18det and turbo and 2.5" intercooler

tubes and there in pretty much no lag atall.

and being a 1800 turbo the biggest i will go to on the exhaust will

be 2.5" cheers

dan

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Child fiddling... :|

Everything within reason, put a front mount on a friends wrx, never do that.. top mounts work alot better for that application, intercoolers are designed to lose 2-4 psi , long piping creates lag, aswell as oversized intercoolers, i ran a custom 400x400x100 on my vr4 with 240+ atw and it worked wonders comared to my 700x600x70 off the shelf item..

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