BCH wrote:I can't guess where the water inlet & outlet is on this thing Brendonnnn?? Any more photos?
Gipsy wrote:The OEM cowl apparently directs the airflow through the intercooler so by this measure running without it may not be the maximum improvement possible. It would be interesting to see if you have even better results with it in place. Following with interest Also good info to hear what the egt was before and after. Any figures? As we all know the 1kd destroys it's pistons with high egt so anything which reduces them must be a bonus! Father Christmas has my request for one under the tree
Speaking of egt, I have a chip and egt probe which switches the chip off at a pre set egt. Last week, towing 2.5 tonne over the moonby range with the cutout set to 520c the lux was noticeable as it switched between on and off the chip. After 520c I backed off the throttle to notice very little speed loss uphill and temps dropping immediately to sub500 so there is little need to boot your lux more than necessary to ascent the climb. As I said, anything which can reduce egt's must be a BIG bonus.
Gipsy wrote:Why WA, no hills there!
The website says water to air intercooler so I'm confused, but if it works better than OEM that's cool (pardon the pun)
Only problem I see with no cowl is the engine room air temp may reduce the cooling efficiency because the bonnet scoop directs pure cold air through the intercooler whilst no cowl may diffuse the cool air with hot engine air.
Mrmal wrote:Upgrading an Intercooler mounted over a 100 degree engine....... Sounds redundant when heat rises and soaks in...
bee08t wrote:Has anyone else got any more info or reviews on the Legendex big boy intercooler, I'm very keen to get one just trying to justify the cost, FMIC is not an option for me, after lots of research I found this one forefrontindustries.com.au top mount intercooler upgrade for d4d 1kd, so I rang the guy to find out a bit more info then what's on his web site he told me that its made in China but full testing done in Australia, 22% bigger than stock, some high flow bars in it that flows 30% more, lowers egt's by 30 degrees and no boost pressure loss across the intercooler, this all sounds pretty good to me for $350. Anyone on here got one on these fitted that can back up these numbers?
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