finally the evo community is geting smarter.
ebay intercoolers have been proven time an time again in the honda world. count less 600whp+ hondas are running huge $150 ebay intercoolers.

but yet the evo community is brainwashed by over priced companies maying people think ebay intercooles are crap.

 

yea sorry i meant to say lower intercooler pipe

 

I guess you didnt read my post about my car on the dyno and daily driver in Miami, FL.

 

I did. My 2003 Evo with 45K on the clock put down 292WHP and 288WTQ with this intercooler, AEM intake, 3 inch turboback with resonated test pipe, Walbro, and Hallman MBC.

Car is defintely more consistent when it comes to power. Install was simple, everything fitting perfect. No issues with the LICP, fitment, etc. Boost drop was non-existent. If it did drop it was too little to notice on the boost gauge.

 

very nice write up

 

people on this forum are weird when it comes to getting parts for a bargain. they all seems to think that if you don't pay big money, then it's crap.

 

did you had this intercooler on when you got tunned by AMS? what did they had to say about their "knock off" IC?

 

IC was on when tuned. They didn't say anything.

 

I thought that Buschur or AMS was in the process of testing this unit. I use the SSAC exhaust and it looks, works, and sounds great. I have used it for the last 2 years. The FMIC I used for about 10 minutes and was leaking so bad that I put it back on ebay and made 75 bucks on it.

No one but SSAC know where their cores come from. I know that AMS uses a top of the line bar/plate core. The difference between the two may look the same inside and out but I would guess they have big differences. I haven't compared the two up close but I did take my SSAC to AMS just to show them what it looks like. I now use the AMS fmic and am very happy with it and I know for sure that it works. The ebay is completely heresay. If someone can proove on paper that the ebay works just as good as AMS, well AMS will just have to come up with something better. For now i'd stand behind AMS.

 

That really doesn't tell us that it works to your benefit though.
And fwiw I put down 315 hp with the same mods as you on AMS' dyno except with the stock ic

 

you better check your maps to make sure they didn't crew it up on purpose. just kidding.

 

I guess he missed mine also...

My Previous setup made 472 on a mustang dyno with a 35r flashed with conservative AFR's.

My current setup made a basline of 503, however we did not get to tune due to a leaking meth kit. I'm gonna push this intercooler to the limits along with a flash...

 

so you made 427 on a mustang dyno with this intercooler?

and your current set up which is??? made 503 with this intercooler??

 

No, i read what you posted; it just didn't make any sense. Were you using this FMIC? Were you using the Perrin? Didn't you lose power, so this FMIC doesn't work after all?

I think maybe what you were trying to say is you dyno'd before and after adding the Perrin front mount, and after adding the Perrin with all the same mods you lost power from the previously used Ebay FMIC? Is that right?

Like already stated, you made less power than your supposed to with those mods and the stock intercooler... Anyway your comparison isn't what we are looking for anyway, we are looking for the difference with just the addition of the intercooler; not 5 other mods...

+1, exactly what i was saying.

What? We don't know the differences between your two setups, so how do we know if the intercooler made power or not? And odviously you changed more than just intercoolers to make up for that 30+ more whp.

Everyone knows the stock intercooler supports up to 500 whp before it starts to hinder power, so you haven't really proven anything yet...




I still haven't seen any hard evidence... If Gusl was trying to say what i think he was trying to say, he might be the only confirmed case of the Ebay intercooler proving to be more efficient than a more expensive counterpart...

 

haha, exactly. +1