MAPerformance
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I have another, hopefully, exciting release teaser to share with you guys. Obviously, when we take a car to the race track, we are hoping to find weak links in the factory design that we can try to develop bigger, better solutions for, thus, supporting the community who will likely need these parts in the near future. Some times that effort is hard... for example... the factory engine continues to thrive at more than double the factory output and the OEM PCV system performs well enough to not require an aftermarket solution...BUT sometimes, weaknesses are easy to find. For example, the factory intercooler and intercooler piping is suitable for the factory power levels... but not too much more beyond that.... which is why we sent a factory intercooler out to be tested.
I don't have all of the data ready to be formatted in a super snazzy, eye pleasing way yet, but I can say that the factory intercooler test yielded the following results:
320cfm flow at roughly 28lbs with 1.7lbs of pressure drop
At peak testing temperature, the factory intercooler cools at approximately 28.7% efficiency meaning that for every 100 degrees of pre intercooler temperature, there is a reduction of only 28.7 degrees post intercooler
Why did we even need that baseline testing? I am glad you asked... because we build billet end tank intercoolers designed around our own custom designed intercooler cores. Our prototype has been in use on our existing drag race car holding in excess of 400whp consistently and being frequently abused. After being satisfied that our initial prototype functioned well, looked good, and was durable enough to survive street use, we decided to send our intercooler out for the same independent analysis as the factory intercooler... which yielded extremely encouraging results:
580cfm flow at roughly 30lbs with .6lbs of pressure drop
At peak testing temperature, our intercooler cools at approximately 47.7% efficiency meaning that for every 100 degrees of pre intercooler temperature, there is a reduction of 47.7% degrees post intercooler
Those numbers might not seem substantially mind altering at 100 degrees, but we are typically seeing 300 degrees peak pre-intercooler numbers which means the factory intercooler post temps are 214 degrees while our MAP is only 157 degrees!
Our intercooler features billet entanks for good looks and durability. Our intercooler is designed for use with stock or our own intercooler piping kit and is track tested and certified ready to take your build to the next level.
More to come soon... but I honestly hope this is enough to get everyone a little jazzed about the 2019 season!