Chris Wilson Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 Is your intercooler falling apart, the fins corroded off the tubes? If so, its efficiency will be extremely degraded. Running more boost than stock? Is this a good idea? NO! It's not even a good idea running STOCK boost with an I/C like that, and when the weather struggles above freezing it will be a VERY BAD idea! Don't want to spend over 1400 quid on a new quality front mount intercooler, only to have half of it masked by the aperture in the front stock bumper being too small to allow air through all the core? Even with a new aftermarket bumper that probably fits where it touches, (from what I have seen of most Jap products), the air will just take the easy route AROUND the expensive FMIC, rather than through it, because no ducting provision is made. The answer is my uprated, all aluminium stock mount intercooler. It uses all original mountings, and the original factory sealed ducting. It uses a state of the art core with fine pitched finning, on modern tubes with internal turbulators. The core uses 10 more tubes than the stock unit, too. The quality of its construction is superb, and all are fully leak tested under pressure before despatch. Pressure drop, both internally through the core, and aerodynamically, are less than the stock cores, making for a very efficient unit. Pics of the intercooler are available by e-mail, and there are plenty of people on the MKIV Supras forums who have bought these for an independent appraisal. They will sell for 620 pounds, there is no VAT to pay. Postage and packing to UK mainland addresses is 12.50, the package is bulky due to their fragile nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 How many's you got in stock? Interested on a p/x for a super-mini Sony VAIO notebook? I haven't got around to selling this one yet, but it's so tiny it's unreal! VAIO TR1MP if you fancy looking them up.. £1,799 inc vat when it was new.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nismo_lp Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Didnt Jurgen say he can get a nice Trust or Greedy IC for about £600? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Maybe he can...but not everyone wants FMIC with associated pipework etc and are happy to simply replace stock with an uprated item at a much better price than Toyotas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted January 27, 2006 Author Share Posted January 27, 2006 How many's you got in stock? Interested on a p/x for a super-mini Sony VAIO notebook? I haven't got around to selling this one yet, but it's so tiny it's unreal! VAIO TR1MP if you fancy looking them up.. £1,799 inc vat when it was new.. I DO want a laptop, but as big as possible with a true serial port. Of the I/C's I have 2 are now sold, only one left. I will only re make if I get a good feeling about selling 5 more, as I have to do a minimum order of 5 to make it even vaguley worthwhile. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl0s Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 I DO want a laptop, but as big as possible with a true serial port. Of the I/C's I have 2 are now sold, only one left. I will only re make if I get a good feeling about selling 5 more, as I have to do a minimum order of 5 to make it even vaguley worthwhile. Cheers. nah, this is more of a gadget really. I'll keep my eyes peeled. BTW, some of the current-ish Dells (e.g. Latitude 505) have a 9-pin serial port. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suprarob Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 I don,t know if anyone has posted this up before but it makes good reading regards the fmic/smic debate http://www.max-boost.co.uk/max-boost/intake/intercooler_2JZGTE.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francis Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Pretty informative article CW you have an email! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ellis Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Err, is mine still one of the sold ones Chris? Hope so! Need to get across for you to bolt it on if so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TT-DEK Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Chris. Pm,d you!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Need4Speed Posted January 28, 2006 Share Posted January 28, 2006 SupraRob - thanks for posting that link; at last someone who talks sense. I rate CW's SMIC as a top piece of kit (and he doesn't even pay me a commission for saying so!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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