Beat The Heat! Mishimoto Intercooler R&D!

[Quisp]

A lot of options came along. MTC, Depo for a lot less dosh.

 

[J2FoRS]

Installed mine today. One thing of note, which I foolishly overlooked. You cannot run the included air diverter pieces with this IC if you have a Mountune splitter. It has a rod that goes up from the splitter into the crash beam for support. You could drill out the pieces, which are metal, if you measure it all out right to fit the rod straight up through both of them and up into the riv nut installed in the crash beam, but that was to much hassle for me, so unfortunately mine are sitting in the box still for now until I come up with a solution to A) use the rod through them B) not use the rod in the same manner, maybe bolt the splitter to the lower diverter piece or C) Gather up enough willpower to actually remove the bumper again for such a minor addition. Which is unlikely.

Nothing spectacular to say about it yet. Super lightweight compared to my Cobb. Quality looked good, really liked the diverter pieces unfortunately but meh. We will see how it performs this week.

 

[danbfree]

OK, since this is a dead thread just gotta say this is the one that ended up on eBay in Bar and Plate form for just under $200 under an off-brand (EXACT core size, specs and deflectors, etc)... not gonna post directly, but someone ordered one and likes it for the price, seems very good quality and a perfect cheap upgrade for a stock turbo car vs over $600 through Mishimoto, which admittedly uses a fin and tube design that is more expensive and has better air flow apparently.. It is literally the smallest upgraded IC you can buy for our car, but still a full 25% larger core size over stock...but for $100 more than the eBay one that has no support from China, you can support Depo/Whoosh or Pwnall with theirs that are all identical to each other and a full 100 in. larger core size than this with proven performance and support from those guys... Just saying, it's interesting how R&D goes sometimes, you win some, you lose some.