Hello everyone   

Forge say on the website that their front mounted intercooler improves torque and Horsepower, however my mechanic say that a front mounted intercooler will definitely reduce low end torque (something to do with the length of piping and air temperature compared to the factory dual intercooler setup)

I am wondering if the high end hp gains are worth making this mod and if there will actually be drops in torque figures.

I am running a standard turbo with forge actuator and TMC box

thanks!

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Be very interest to hear if Daron has fitted one for a customer yet.

I have heard that bigger intercoolers can add lag and move all the power into a bigger single hit like a old skool big power turbo...

Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Still Nothing BANG all the power in one hit!

I dont think the pipework would be too much of an issue as I imagin there's quite abit of pipework running a split setup to be honest but I can see Hippos concern about cooling, as there isnt much of the rad on show if any in the shots Ive seen of all 3 intercoolers I know about (Forge, G-Tech and the one TMC sells), think there might be at least one more.

As for gains, I read a issue of Fast Car where Forge had their demo car featured (Shockingly bad mag and worse still was the feature) which at the time was sporting:
Forge Induction Kit with Silicone elbow
Forge BOV
Forge Actuator
Forge Front mounted intercooler
and remapped
They claimed it made 190bhp on standard car and exhaust, which I guess is possible, but 190bhp ish is about the limit of the standard turbo so Im not sure if a full exhaust would have brought much to the table, still when you think about it GTTunings stg2 kit basically uses a slightly altered TMC, uprated actuator and sometimes induction kit to get 180/190bhp ish so maynot be too far from the trueth