senna_T Forged Member Lifetime Members 15,818 Member For: 18y 4d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 09/12/07 12:50 AM Share Posted 09/12/07 12:50 AM Well, as a few of you know I'm changing my intake set-up, I've sold the PWR cooler and Around battery pipe, and I'm buying SHY_XR's old setup - a rapid cooler and pipework.Last night I took my PWR gear off to fit my factory cooler and UBP so I can still drive around until the new stuff gets to me. After fitting everything up and getting it going, I was surprised at how responsive the factory cooler was! Iknow it sounds weird, but at low rpm it was quite good! Once it got to about 4000rpm you could tell it was being restricted so I backed off, but its quite good to drive around town at low speeds.Hopefully the new set-up will be awesome, which I'm sure it willPat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSYCHO XRT THE PSYCHO XRT Donating Members 1,275 Member For: 19y 2m 3d Gender: Not Telling Location: At the lights! Posted 09/12/07 02:55 AM Share Posted 09/12/07 02:55 AM (edited) I had experienced something similar lately.....Not long ago I had purchased aftermarket piping which replaces the facotry x over. It was quite good for midrange power but down low it was terrible, very sluggish and took forever to get going which I wasnt happy with. I had also lost the sounds of my turbo spooling which I loved so to get it back, I put back my facotry x over and amazingly it was all responsive again. lol I'm now running the facotry x over with 300+rwkw's and I'm loving the response + the sound's I'm getting from it. I guess we all have our different way's of modding, and personally for me, im finally happy with how my car perform's and sounds now. Good luck with your new setup Senna T. I'm sure it will go and sound awesome:)CheersSan Edited 09/12/07 03:02 AM by XR2DY4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAP1D Member Donating Members 3,739 Member For: 18y 8m 22d Gender: Male Location: Sydney NSW Posted 09/12/07 03:04 AM Share Posted 09/12/07 03:04 AM Going back to the stock set up can be a supprise hey.By the way, SHY_XR's cooler is a Hybrid brand intercooler not one of mine, I just made the 3inch piping to suit it.Should be good to see the tuning results, I know that piping is capable of 350wkws very easily with the right supporting gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F6_Charlie Donating Members 1,001 Member For: 20y 5m 11d Gender: Male Posted 09/12/07 03:13 AM Share Posted 09/12/07 03:13 AM Yes my cooler is a hybrid one, But compined with rapids piping it works awsome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senna_T Forged Member Lifetime Members 15,818 Member For: 18y 4d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 09/12/07 03:31 AM Author Share Posted 09/12/07 03:31 AM thanks for the comments guys, yes I should point out that the cooler I am getting is a Hybrid Cooler, I know this, and it has been clarified previous to sale, so no-one has led me astray as to what I'm buying I've spoken to the boys at CV re a quick dyno run to check the AFR's, and if it needs a tune, we'll do that too. I just hope I can get it all installed and get over there before they close on the 22nd! Otherwise it will have to wait until I get back from japan next year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f6forme Member 9 Member For: 17y 2m 5d Posted 09/12/07 09:41 AM Share Posted 09/12/07 09:41 AM HiDid you get my payment?I hope it improves my performance against the old fpv coolerAlso were are going in Japan I have been there twice its fantasic I love the vending Machines hot coffee in a can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOM1111 Member 631 Member For: 17y 6m 14d Gender: Male Location: newcastle Posted 09/12/07 09:44 AM Share Posted 09/12/07 09:44 AM looks like every one is looking at getting into rapids gear im looking at getting his I/C kit aswell as its a fair price and the reults have been awesomeBTW rapid your PM box is full Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCRIBR Yaris member Member 4,486 Member For: 18y 7m 21d Gender: Male Posted 09/12/07 10:52 AM Share Posted 09/12/07 10:52 AM so fitting a stock cooler might be the next modding craze?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senna_T Forged Member Lifetime Members 15,818 Member For: 18y 4d Gender: Male Location: SW Sydney Posted 09/12/07 12:58 PM Author Share Posted 09/12/07 12:58 PM don't get me wrong, the PWR cooler is WAY more efficient! the standard stuff is good at low revs because it is a shorter way for the air to travel, but once the revs rise, it is obviously restrictive.f6forme, I should see the payment tomorrow, the couriers will be picking up the box between 1 and 5pm - its in the original PWr box so you won't miss it.As far as Japan goes I'll be in Tokyo and osaka, mostly tokyo though, we will try and go to as many places as we can, and we are gonna try and score a wangan run too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobrav8 Member 1,969 Member For: 19y 10m 18d Gender: Male Location: New Zealand Posted 10/12/07 09:13 AM Share Posted 10/12/07 09:13 AM This might be a dum question, but...Could you have two smaller pipes running in parallel, and at lower revs only one is open, and as the revs rise the second pipe is opened? Then you could have quicker response, followed by free flow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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