Just Fit Pw Fg Intercooler Today, Feel No Difference?

[polarbear]

I replace the stock fg intercooler with the Pw stage one kit. I seriously did not felt like any power increase. Is it because I not driving hard enough? Do I only see difference on the track

[MattyP]

Intercooler isn't really a power mod mate especially on a standard car.

However it will not need to be changed until 400+

[will-82]

You need a tune with some more boost in it, an intercooler alone isn't really a horsepower adder but it allows you to run more boost safely which is where your extra horsepower comes from

[FiftyOne]

ECU's in these are pretty trick. If you change too many things it may actually boost limit, making it go quite a bit slower

[JETURBO]

Epic thread is epic

[ratter]

your car if stock is tuned in close loop boost control, this will; keep boost the same until it crashes out and goes into limp mode, the factory temp adders are very conservative also

[discostig]

Swap the standard one back on, get it custom tuned and drive it, then get it tuned again with the PW cooler on it and see what you reckon. Differences will be even greater with other supporting mods like injectors, fuel pump and exhaust.

Money would have been better spent on a custom tune only, but really you wanna do it all in one hit to save paying for retunes. Cooler, injectors/fuel system, exhaust. Boom, 11 second quarters in a ZF car (May need turbo mods and valve springs though).

[MattyP]

My line of thinking as well Steve

When I did 11.8 in my single spinner with Chinese tyres at 45psi. I had I'd 100th, Pw stage2, and my 4 inch dump and cat with 3 1/2 cat back.

That's on e85

Just got to do those other supporting mods and you'll get there bud

[Z2TT]

My car at 400rwhp, felt extremely torquey and responsive when cold, and much less so

when warmed up, huge difference. I always thought it was the Intercooler that wasn't getting rid of the heat easily when the car was warm, So I was thinking a big aftermarket replacement would help, I decided to take the gamble to rule this out and get a high quality cooler, a PW Stage 1 same one as Polarbear.

Polarbear I did the same thing as you did, and Steve similar to what your suggesting, thinking it will make a good difference.

Unfortunately it did not.

MattyP has it Right you do not need to upgrade to a big aftermarket intercooler under 400hp for a street car most of the time.

Polarbear, on a 40+ Degree day driving hard, or on the track, you probably will feel the difference if you were to compare 2 cars side by side, in normal day to day driving on most days, you are right there is no real difference.

Edited 04/08/14 05:06 PM by Z2TT

[ratter]

dyno chart showing the difference between 2 cars one had a stock FG cooler and the other was a car with a ProcessWest stage 1 cooler, both tuned and the temp difference is quite evident, even though the P/west equipped car is making more boost, there is nowhere near the temp increase

Edited 05/08/14 12:29 PM by ratter