Background: The eBay bicooler has been in use on my GTI for about a year and a half. It has been working well paired with the Unitronic stock location intercooler. The bicooler arrangement has a couple of benefits versus a stand-alone FMIC or stock location IC. The passageways for air to flow through are increased […]
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Background: Searching for the best intercooler to install on my GTI will involve comparing products using several approaches. With both the stock GTI intercooler and the Unitronic IC available to me a comparison is made using bench testing methods. Two aspects of performance are to be measured; pressure drop across the intercooler and cooling efficiency.
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Looking at different aspects of intercooler performance led to making a chart showing the temperature exiting the intercooler and the intake air temperature. The intent was to determine if how quickly IAT dropped would be a useful measure of intercooler performance. The intercooler outlet temperature (IC_Out) is being measured with a temperature probe located in
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