typer

sup guyz i just got done installin a customcoach intercooler. first of all it looks very beautiful. and goin from non intercooled setup to intercooled man my car is much faster, and smoother. and i went from 2' piping to 2.5'. dont get me wrong i love this intercooler. well worth my money. but one thing i lost two psi. i was boostin 5 psi non-intercooled w/ 2' piping. now im boost only 3 psi with 2.5' piping w/intercooler and i checked all the clamps and everything all tight. even tightened my wastegate. do u guyz think im losin boost cuz of the intercooler or cuz of the piping? or a leak somewhere?

now with better pics enjoy!!

http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=548031

sporkcrx

Well I believe when you install an i/c it'll have a pressure drop. Also, where the hell are the pics!?!? I need to get a cheap i/c for my set up

I like pizza

go with a tyrus. they be sweet. I am not putting the hate on custom coach, but I loooove my tryus cooler.

sporkcrx

I've been out of the loop for a while, who the hell is custom coach?

Dr.Boost

Some pressure drop will happen with any intercooler, especialy one that big. Your larger charge pipes probably have something to do with it. Look at all the extra space the turbo has to pressurize now. That's quite a change.
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BlinD

If it bothers ya that much make one of those homemade boost controllers and crank it up 2 psi heh.

customcoach

You say the car is faster and smoother, but you lost boost? It sound to me like your boost gauge is giving you a false reading, if you really lost two pounds of boost it would feal slower. Where did you hook you gauge to? it should be on the intake or as close to the throtle body as possible to get the exact preasure going in to the motor. Don't hook it in line with anything like a blow off valve or boost controller.
There is allways some pressure drop in the system, but two pounds is a lot, it's usually about a half pound or so on these intercoolers, plus a little for piping(usually to small to measure). Since you didnt say anything about turbo lag I will asume you dont have any leaks, a leak will cause a lot of lag. Double check that boost gauge and let me know what you find. Try another gauge or add a hand held vacume/boost guage and go for a ride.

customcoach

OH yey. SEND PICTURES!!!!!I NEED PICTURES!!!! Any one that has one of my intercoolers, send me pictures, I want to use them on the new web site very soon.

typer

hmm the vacuum line is alone right on the manifold. its not on with the bov, fmu etcetc. but i dunno ill try to figure this out. but guy trust me the intercooler it looks very nice. imma wash my car right quick and have pics for ya soon yeah i know it sounds weird but even though its boostin lower psi its way faster than 5 psi non intercooled. can anyone back me up on this? from my experience last night and drivin my car non intercooled for a long while i noticed that. well pics are soon to come. wont be good quality but my friend took pics of my car with his bad *** digi and waitin on them but if u wanna see some temp pics ill take some with my shitty one haha well any more help would be appreciated on this situation. once again very nice intercooler. for the price and diy piping i saved a bundle total spend on intercooler setup=$375 thats a price on just a damn spearco intercooler lol.. thanks for the good deal customcoach. latez

Dr.Boost

It probably is faster since the intake temperature has dropped. If anything it's safer and more efficient. Now you can crank it up to 8psi!!
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