Looks sweet, have you taken the thing for a drive, any difference?

When will we be seeing you out at WSID next! It'll be interesting to see how your times compare with all the modifications done (and in cooler weather).

I'm tossing up between a tmic or fmic for my next car, process west have a very nice example of both. The top mount handles around 220kw atw, but i want the flutter!

i hate you Kosti....i want a dyno day!!!! PLEEEEEEASE

Hey Kosti, do you find it better now with heat soak. & roughly how much did the TMIC cost? pm me if you like
Mond

looks good. the B4 bolt in unit? Theyre a fair bit smaller than the hyperflow wrx cores. But what counts is that these aftermarket cores are a lot more efficent than the factory ones. they cool down very fast after siting at the light etc, still no complaint with mine - except because its bigger is a bastard to take in and out haha. good to see more people doing the good mods,

i dont know if this is a stupid question or not, but why does the factory paint the intercooler black? dosent that make it hotter?

Looking good kosti. i see an update of the dyno charts coming soon.

is it more top end youve gained or just generally better everywhere.

how much gain was from the cooler, how much from the exhaust?

Billsy

the idea of it being black comes from the electronic days of power amp heatsinks and as mentioned absorbs heat much better than any other colour.

This is true with clothing as well wear black in summer and your sure to melt, wear somthing white and it's going to be a lot cooler between your legz!

The TMIC is not noticable until your speedo starts to break trhe law, this is mainly for high top end driving.

The thing gets extremely hot during heatsaoking, but once on the move it cools down a lot quicker than the standard OEM TMIC.

I gain was minimal with only 2-5Kw max

subaru legacy turbo wrote:

Hello quick question
Does the TT TMIC have 2 separate chambers or does the imput "mix"  in the bottom chamber and pass through?
Ian in the frozen north 

Kosti wrote:

the idea of it being black comes from the electronic days of power amp heatsinks and as mentioned absorbs heat much better than any other colour.
This is true with clothing as well wear black in summer and your sure to melt, wear somthing white and it's going to be a lot cooler between your legz!
The TMIC is not noticable until your speedo starts to break trhe law, this is mainly for high top end driving.
The thing gets extremely hot during heatsaoking, but once on the move it cools down a lot quicker than the standard OEM TMIC.
I gain was minimal with only 2-5Kw max

painting intercooler is a waste of time, unless its to hide it from view.

anodising would be the way to go if you wanted that extra poofteenth out of your cooler

Im confused here Kosti.

This is a DIY Thread, yet you didn't do it yourself....

I would have thought that the INTERNAL surfaces of the IC should be black to absorb the heat better from the air passing thru the IC whilst the outer should silver to reflect the heat from outside the IC.
As the black absorbs the temp the IC's body heat would go up and be given off to the external air passing thru the IC fins. With the external being silver little ambient heat would be absorbed into the IC body.