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The repetative intercooler posts(most of which are probably coming from me lately). I know its useless to ask which is better, but my question is this. Can intercooler efficiency be determined solely by CFM's? if so, how does one go about determining the cfm's a given turbo will put out? For example, I am probably going to end up gettin TD05's. If i know that td05-18g's flow xxxcfm's then getting a(n) intercooler(s) that, at their max, could flow the same xxxcfm's would mean that I have a perfectly matched set of intercoolers, right? with minimal pressure drop and optimum cooling, right? It seems to me that intercooler size should be a bigger issue than it is made up to be, considering there aren't that many options. And generally it is said that all sidemounts flow the same, but, for instance, take two Z's, both with stillen intercoolers, one has sport 500's and the other has sport 650's, given the difference in power and airflow of the two different turbo's , there's no way that the same stillen intercoolers are working at optimum efficiency for both setups, whose power outputs are so drastically different.
I have seen many post on the actual dimensions of the small array of available intercoolers for the Z but that's it. Do any of these intercoolers get flow tested? if so , is there a place where I can find that data? And then there's core design,
what is the difference between tube/fin and bar/plate construction? which is better? Its gotta suck for someone with big turbo's to spend $1,000 dollars on IC's and realize they aren't capable enough. It's gotta suck more for someone to spend $2,000 on a FMIC only to realize his IC's too big and he has a 5 p.s.i. drop.
I just want a little more clarification on this this grey area of upgradeability before before I go chunking money out.
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