HondaTuner

lmao. Nice

If I were to go with an intercooler, I probably would go with CCA. It's been proven to be a good intercooler time and time again so hey, that's cool by me

87na_rx7

omg i was owned by someone that still uses geocities , whatever the welds were still half-assed and the mounting tabs werent even straight

Reddy

You said you got the intercooler straight from CCA which obviously wasn't so becuase he doesn't sell polished intercoolers. Therefore it probably isn't a CCA intercooler. Your setting yourself up to get owned again becuase you obviously didn't get it straight from CCA like you said.

customcoach

Well you are mostly correct. It doesnt matter whether its bar and plate or tube and fin. Either one can have tubulators, no tubulators or extruded(straight) tubulators. It just depends on which one you get from the manufacturer. There are only about ten core manufacturers world wide. This stuff is very difficult and expensive to manufacture. The price of the core depends on the effort it takes to manufacture. Obviously the low price China intercoolers use the cheapest core possible. They get the bar and plate because that's what everybody wants, but they get the cheap bar and plate with extruded tubulators or no tubulators. Brand names mean NOTHING. Spearco, Greddy and countless other "brand name" intercoolers all buy their core from the same people I buy mine from. The only true test of an intercooler is temperature drop and pressure drop. It is physically impossible to look at an intercooler and tell if it's a good unit or not without knowing the core design and its' vital statistics.

90turboteg

i just got my cca today, it has alot of tubulators or w/e, i can see how it cools the air, i like it alot better than most intercoolers ive seen on the market. it has a nice fit in most hondas, fits perfect in my bumper, although i wont be turbo for a while, since i decied to take the safr route and build my motor. but the quauily is nice from cca, u can tell there professional welds, nicly cut endtanks and what not. its one of the better "NAME BRANDS" out there, haha, it is a name brand so what now :P

ju-on

In your experience, how well do they work? Is their efficiency about equal to a bar and plate? I'm curious because they seem to cost a lot less then bar & plates. And if you can get damn near the same results outta it for less money, well then who doesn't want that!

customcoach

We have tested our SRT-4 tube and fin unit against the other guys SRT-4 bar and plate units. For half the price, our units perform exactly the same or better at the track, on the street and on the dyno. Many customers have made this comparison as well. We get Emails all the time saying My buddys got a Greedy/Speerco/AIS/PSI-FI unit he paid $750 for and I got yours. We went to the track and ran the same times. And as an added bonus the tube and fin core is lighter.

ju-on

do you have any pics of what they look like on inside the tubes?

customcoach

I will try to cut down some scrap core to show you what I am talking about.

projekteg

i've personally ordered 4 intercoolers from anthony in the past on 4 seperate occasions and not one was less than perfect. i find it a little hard to believe the intercooler you speak of came straight from anthony and rene'. hell, the last one i ordered was almost a year ago, so i doubt his craftsmanship has gotten anything but better over time, not to mention, like anthony already mentioned, he doesn't even polish his intercoolers at all. just fess up, you bought it from somebody that told you they got it from cca