Bring a Jacket: Mishimoto’s Honda Civic 1.5L Turbo Performance Intercooler R&D

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Hey Guys,

As promised the next installment of our Civic 1.5T/Si intercooler kit development has arrived! Make sure you head over to our Engineering Blog to get all of the juicy details!

Honda Civic 10th gen Bring a Jacket: Mishimoto’s Honda Civic 1.5L Turbo Performance Intercooler R&D 083117_NLT_CivX_INT_WEB_6


No matter what car rolls into our shop, it's almost a guarantee that everyone in the R&D facility here at Mishimoto is going to shuffle out into the shop to get an up close look. The same is true for hearing the dyno results of said vehicle after hours of it bellowing through the shop. The plucky little 1.5T powered Civic Sport Hatch was no exception. This conspicuously red Civic has made several visits to New Castle, but this time was the grand finale, and we wanted to see what it could do.

Honda Civic 10th gen Bring a Jacket: Mishimoto’s Honda Civic 1.5L Turbo Performance Intercooler R&D 083117_NLT_CivX_INT_WEB_3


In the few days it was here, we played musical intercoolers, testing not only the stock core, but two variations of our design. Using our dynapacks, we lined up a series of tests to show the true potential of our Civic 1.5T intercooling system, but first we started with some baseline tests. These tests were conducted in two stages. The first was a series of 5 runs to get a gauge of the flow, and the difference in inlet and outlet temperatures. The second was the heat soak test, in which we collected the same data, but only after the heat exchanger was sizzling.

Honda Civic 10th gen Bring a Jacket: Mishimoto’s Honda Civic 1.5L Turbo Performance Intercooler R&D All-Stock-Heat-Soak


It's plain to see from this graph (and the previously posted video) the effect of heat soak on your intercooler. With the true potential of these cars being unlocked with a tune, we equipped our loaner Hatchback with the Hondata +9psi tune and ran the same tests.

Honda Civic 10th gen Bring a Jacket: Mishimoto’s Honda Civic 1.5L Turbo Performance Intercooler R&D Hondata-Stock-Heat-Soak


As you can see the inlet temperatures spike by almost 100°F which has an effect on your outlet temperatures as well. The secondary effect is that all of the heat soaking into your intercooler is being transferred to your radiator, and can raise your coolant temps.

Honda Civic 10th gen Bring a Jacket: Mishimoto’s Honda Civic 1.5L Turbo Performance Intercooler R&D 083117_NLT_CivX_INT_WEB_4


Enter the Mishimoto intercooler. Our larger core with a bar and plate design is able to shrug the heat off from both the stock and Hondata tune, keeping both your intake temps and coolant temps down. To see exactly how cool, head over to the Engineering Blog to find out!

As always, feel free to ask any questions you might have!

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As someone with a ctv who is looking to into use the +6psi tune in the future, would this be something I should be interested in?
 
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As someone with a ctv who is looking to into use the +6psi tune in the future, would this be something I should be interested in?
Definitely! Any time you start turning up the boost on you car, it's going to increase the heat flowing through your intercooler. Once you heat soak the heat exchanger, it becomes much harder to compress the charged air into your intake, which can rob your Civic of performance, even with the tune. Not to mention that the increased heat is going to generally make you car run hotter. Our bar-and-plate construction vastly improves the heat rejection characteristics and we saw near ambient air temperatures on the outlet side of our core.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

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Definitely! Any time you start turning up the boost on you car, it's going to increase the heat flowing through your intercooler. Once you heat soak the heat exchanger, it becomes much harder to compress the charged air into your intake, which can rob your Civic of performance, even with the tune. Not to mention that the increased heat is going to generally make you car run hotter. Our bar-and-plate construction vastly improves the heat rejection characteristics and we saw near ambient air temperatures on the outlet side of our core.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

-Nick
as someone who doesn't have a garage and is pretty car illiterate is this something i can have a shop install for me?
 

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A shop will definitely do the intercooler install, although if you like to do your own work, (like me!) you can do this in the driveway with a jack and some stands. There’s a few install guides kicking around as well to make it even easier. I can’t see it taking more then a hour at a shop, only took me 45 minutes. I got the Prl intercooler.
 
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as someone who doesn't have a garage and is pretty car illiterate is this something i can have a shop install for me?
A shop will definitely do the intercooler install, although if you like to do your own work, (like me!) you can do this in the driveway with a jack and some stands. There’s a few install guides kicking around as well to make it even easier. I can’t see it taking more then a hour at a shop, only took me 45 minutes. I got the Prl intercooler.
What he said ;) It's actually a pretty easy install, and we will be uploading a video installation guide as well as a written guide. If you're still into having the shop do it, I don't see it costing more that an hour's worth of shop time.

Let me know if you have anymore questions!

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When will these be available I want one Honda Civic 10th gen Bring a Jacket: Mishimoto’s Honda Civic 1.5L Turbo Performance Intercooler R&D unnamed


Will this come with the hot and cold side piping as well?
 
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Will this come with the hot and cold side piping as well?
Right now we are shooting for a late March to early April pre-sale, so we're coming up soon! As for the piping, we'll also be offering a pipe kit, as well as a full intercooler kit.

The Type R lip looks great on your Si, too by the way :)

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Right now we are shooting for a late March to early April pre-sale, so we're coming up soon! As for the piping, we'll also be offering a pipe kit, as well as a full intercooler kit.

The Type R lip looks great on your Si, too by the way :)

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Thank you Nick check your dm :)
 

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Definitely! Any time you start turning up the boost on you car, it's going to increase the heat flowing through your intercooler. Once you heat soak the heat exchanger, it becomes much harder to compress the charged air into your intake, which can rob your Civic of performance, even with the tune. Not to mention that the increased heat is going to generally make you car run hotter. Our bar-and-plate construction vastly improves the heat rejection characteristics and we saw near ambient air temperatures on the outlet side of our core.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

-Nick
I know you mentioned @Mishimoto that you may possibly be doing an intercooler for the 1.5 CVT models as there has been interest by other folks as well as myself. Any word on if in fact you will be making one? Since not too many aftermarket parts really benefit the CVT, I think an intercooler for us would be extremely sought after.
 
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I know you mentioned @Mishimoto that you may possibly be doing an intercooler for the 1.5 CVT models as there has been interest by other folks as well as myself. Any word on if in fact you will be making one? Since not too many aftermarket parts really benefit the CVT, I think an intercooler for us would be extremely sought after.
Not to worry, we made sure to fit our intercooler with the two bumper styles to ensure that they'll fit on the different Civic models, and the CVT shouldn't have an effect on the piping :)

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I know you mentioned @Mishimoto that you may possibly be doing an intercooler for the 1.5 CVT models as there has been interest by other folks as well as myself. Any word on if in fact you will be making one? Since not too many aftermarket parts really benefit the CVT, I think an intercooler for us would be extremely sought after.
I think what you remember is some talk about a possible future oil cooler for the CVT.
 
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