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im looking for a big intercooler for my gtr. not sure where to find one. should i be looking for a complete kit? or get the cooler and get piping made up? ive retained the twin turbo setup with larger turbos. i dont want a cheap chinese cooler, rather something good, that flows well and suit a high hp application. what price range am i looking at?

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Next to none of the coolers for the GTR come with piping, you just get the cooler. They range from $1500 - $3000 depending where you get them from, then a complete piping kit is usually around $1000 - $1500 on top from the big manufacturers (HKS, Trust etc).

Just grab a second hand HKS Type R/Trust R-SPL etc from one of the local parts importers, save yourself alot of money and use the stock piping.

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Contact Just Jap in Sydney, I was looking at their new intercoolers for GTR which can be had for around $800 and from memory they are a tube and fin core, around 100mm thick.

Cheapest I have seen, and they look to be a pretty decent core as well

Alternatively, im running the Apexi GT spec monster intercooler on my 33 GTR and its one beautifully made intercooler but the cost jumps up to around $1500, mind you the core is 138mm thick - I purchased it from UAS and from what I understand there is limited stock as Apexi no longer manufactures them

Blitz Grand Master

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Hey Blitz did you have to chop/modify the front bar to fit the cooler, 136mm is quite big!!!

The front bar needed trimming, but I still have the factory mesh in place :)

The core design used on the Apexi GT Spec is by far the best I have seen

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sorry, wen i got my car it didnt have the cooler so i didnt kno that it was one in one out. i was looking at an ARC cooler and it had a twin outlet on the right side.. thats y i asked. :P is it worth spending the extra money getting the brand name cooler or are the just jap ones just as good? i dont mind spending the extra cash, if its worth it!

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forget that, there are two types of intercoolers one for looks and one for performance.

the diffrence is in the core. the cheapest and best way is to keep everything standard. go to a turbo place i can recommend one in wollongong tel them what dims your intercoller is and just get the core replaced and keep the standard pipeing and everyhting else. also food for thought chrome intercoolers are shit, the best emitter of heat is a black body, so if your serious about your intercooler you need a black one. thats why the standard gtr intercoller is black

paulr33 Grand Master

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i always thought they were black (oem gtr33, gtr32, xr6turbo cores) to hide them as they are not really important to a standard car owner. i think it was abo bob who did some tests with painting them and found that paint altered its properties and made it worse for transferring heat

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