Intercooler...help!!

[sidewaymambo]

Hi, guys

Has anyone has experience of these two cooler? Just hope someone can give better suggestion over these two intercooler for my R33 GTS-T stage one mod.

TRUST V-SPL 600x276x76

HKS 600x301x65

the HKS unit is $150 over trust unit.

[sidewaymambo]

well, looks no one has experience with them!!

what I wonder, is one is less in width and thicker then another

600x276x76 vs. 600x301x65, any comment?

[ex-static]

Id go with the HKS one, it looks like it has more coils, and can dissapate heat a little better.. im no cooler expert, but I think that the general idea..

Go the HKS option, send me the trust one if you dont want it ..

[raist60]

No offense to the trust and hks coolers but there a ****en ripoff. My avo one is 600x300x90 mm (Bar and plate) whole kit for 1400.

[Cubes]

Go the Bar and Plate for that little better cooling in summer.

[sidewaymambo]

Originally posted by raist60

No offense to the trust and hks coolers but there a ****en ripoff. My avo one is 600x300x90 mm (Bar and plate) whole kit for 1400.

hi, Dude

can you give more detail about your kit? does it include cooler and piping for r33 gtst? thanks

[raist60]

The kits comes with everything you need. Cooler / piping / brackets / silicon hose joiner. Its a 600x300x90 mm Bar and Plate cooler. It feeds through the standard piping in left hand front guard. Its awesome. Like i said i paid 1400 bucks from AVO TURBO WORLD in Melbourne.

[Roy]

The HKS picture looks to be a kit for a 200SX, but it is the same intercooler i installed on my R32 recently.

I too looked at the AVO unit, but check it is the core that as 600x300x90, as i think this may include end tanks. The HKS kit fitted my car with no real dramas, although the pipes are powder coated/painted mild steel and look to have been formed using hydraulic tube bender, (no mandrel bends).

The HKS core itself has tubes that are smaller than my spare GTR core. It would seem to flow well enough as with the cooler installed my boost has gone from10-11 psi to 13-14 psi. It has essentially made my boost controller obsolete, as i leave it turned off and run the std boost which now sits @13-14psi (stock turbo)

As for cooling i have a thermocouple that i want to mount before the manifold, but until then all i can say is that even after 8-9 laps @15psi flat around eastern creek, the inlet of the cooler is very hot to touch, the outlet is still ambient temperature, the crossover pipe behind the radiator is again very hot. So next is HPC coating or a similar solution to heateing of air downstream of IC. Rather agricultural means of testing but it may give you an idea

Is this too much information. In all i found the AVO bar & plate GTR cooler a better option than the GTST kit, but it means custom piping. If the AVO kit is alum piping than i would suggest this may be a better option than HKS

[Gerds]

Hey Raist. whats the no dood? how much shipping to syd?

[raist60]

+61 (0)3 9584 4499

If they give you any hassle about shipping i can grab it for ya and we can arrange a different way to ship.

[sidewaymambo]

Originally posted by raist60

The kits comes with everything you need. Cooler / piping / brackets / silicon hose joiner. Its a 600x300x90 mm Bar and Plate cooler. It feeds through the standard piping in left hand front guard. Its awesome. Like i said i paid 1400 bucks from AVO TURBO WORLD in Melbourne.

Thanks for the information. I just rang them, however the price is up to A$1550 full kit (yes, full kit: include everything need to go in, pressure drop 1psi at 15 psi...., new piping incule the pipe ti replace stock pipe) ship to Sydney frieght around 70~90....1 week)

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mmm...sound's good...[

[sidewaymambo]

Originally posted by raist60

+61 (0)3 9584 4499

If they give you any hassle about shipping i can grab it for ya and we can arrange a different way to ship.

Hi, Dude

will you be able to talk a good deal for us ...(thanks in advance!!), consider we some here consider get FMIC? thaks..

[NIZ30]

Not totslly sure, but the trust one looks very similar in size to mine. I have different end tanks. I have no problems running 1.5 bar boost. can't complain, but coola was on car when i bought it so i'm not too sure of the actual benefits it gave.