wow this is totally wrong... the vspec is an extruded tube design, which means the cooling tubes are little tunnels that have ribs on the inside to add surface area to them. there's no fins. so it lets most of the air through unperturbed and uncooled. this is why it flows BETTER than stock. but it doens't COOL better than stock. which is the point when discussing interCOOLers.

the rspec uses a very dense louvred fin design. this restricts the air quite a bit and hence cools the air quite a bit. this is of course also why greddy recommends this core with a bigger turbo. what most people don't realise is our turbo is big enough to run it. you don't need or want a gt35r on this intercooler, it's not that big, there are other biggie ic's that i'm sure will do better, if you want lightness the arc would, if you want ultimate the nisei would.

now the reason i say that flowing a certain hp is meaningless is because you're talking about an intercooler. something that cools... hp says nothing about cooling efficiency. a 2.5" striaght pipe will flow 1000 hp. but how well does it cool the air? it doesn't hardly at all right? which is why such a figure is meaningless (for the most part). it IS meaningful when you're discussing oh i'm gonna be running this much air flow (this much hp) will the intercooler then become a restriction? ALL INTERCOOLERS ARE SO OVERENGINEERED THESE DAYS THAT THIS WOULD NEVER BE A CONCERN. so why do people say flows this hp so much? cuz... they don't wanna talk about what's really important... how cool the air is.

and that's the other thing... it's all about intercooler restrictions too, everyone says the stocker is the best blahblahblah. i disagree cuz for one it doensn't have the best fin design hence it doesn't cool the best and it also will pose more of a restriction for the amount of cooling it does. case in point is the nisei vs stock. the nisei doesn't give you too much pressure drop (none over stock) because it's got a fantastic fin design, no fin louvring needed so the air goes striaght through, but the internal suface areas of the intercooler are more than any other cooler on the market! hence the marginally over ambient outlet temps. the stocker does not do this.

for all intents and purposes this has all been covered already in antoher thread called like... intercooler (best) something like that... and i said all this stuff before. you can also see the converse side and hit a list of links that have a great amount of info. see what the hell is REALLY on the inside of an intercooler. some designs and some manufacturers... you really wonder how they put 'em together.

 

Do not have pics of it on an evo but heres a pic of it from our site.

http://www.gnvmotorsports.com/Mitsub...FMIC-rspec.php

 

here are some pics of the Rspl

 

i like it. and the 97 240 looks great!!!

 

Wow looks almost as big as the Nisei FMIC.

 

that's just cuz hte end tanks are limited to be at a certain placement. the nisei is actually much bigger, taller and deeper.

 

Sorry if this is off topic, kind of.

It is a very nice FMIC indeed. I had it on my 2003 Evo for 6 days before I traded the car in. I removed the intercooler and it is for sale now. I am going to keep the new car close to stock this time, hopefully. Here is my for sale thread if anyone is looking for a good deal on one that is only 6 days old:

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/sh...ighlight=r-spl


It is a great looking FMIC kit, with all the lower piping to the turbo outlet and the after IC pipe that ends at the air box. You can see from the pictures above the highly polished end tanks and piping. It also has upgraded silicone couplings over the V-SPL unit. It is supposed to cool much better than the stock unit and even the V-SPL unit.

Brian