Intercooler comparison?

[frs3425]

Hi!

Has there been any performance comparison made between the existing intercoolers on the market?

Best Regards, Per-Anders.

[Lotus104]

Hi

Did you have a look at Mishimoto’s intercooler kit with piping?

Have it on my car and I think they have great quality & finish on thier products.

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RS Edition , built 13/9-18 , and delivered 9/11-18

Mountune: R.M.M. / Roll restrictor, PTU Brace, Breather plate & Re-circulating valve.

Mishimoto: I/C + pipe kit, Catch can, Blue Aluminum expansion tank

Ford Performance / Remus cat back Exhaust

FSWERKS short shift kit.

quantiTEC Smoked rear lights.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by Lotus104.

[rsedition-ste]

There seems to be some big price differences between some of the offerings in the shop between £470 and £1800. The mountune cooler is at the cheaper end of the range at £630 and seems to offer the level of cooling required up to 500bhp I believe.

A comparison between cost vs benefit would be good.

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Insta – @blue_rs_edition 

Focus RS Edition – FPM375, forged wheels

Impreza P1 – AP’s, 346bhp, mint

Clio 172 Cup turbo – track project, needs finished

Leon Cupra TFSi – 237bhp, white

• This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by rsedition-ste.

[nicklulu]

I did not find it here in our forum but I did find a list elsewhere.

• Price comparison
• Dimension
• Weight
• Tube/Fin vs Bar/Plate
• mods needed to install

Even Mountune USA is different from Mountune UK. UK has tube/fin which is lighter compared to the US bar/plate. Tube/fin has less tendency of balloning and had more cooling surface.

I looked at ETS, Mountune USA/UK, Steemspeed, Mishi and two others.

Ended with Mountune USA as it’s the most cost effective and the largest I can install w/o trimming anything.

[9designs]

The Mountune one corrodes and the paint falls off……  I’m not impressed, it will need repainting or replacing in a year or two I guess, for reference I’ve done just over 2K miles in the last year, so not heavy use.

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Magnetic Grey with all the best bits

FPM375/COBB/MSD-  Quaife LSD,  DSC+Tractive  Suspension,  HJS200 cell sports cat and MT Cooler. Sync3 upgrade.

Was UK seller for DSC & Tractive  Active suspension !!!

    

[rsedition-ste]

@9designs

Thats not good on the mountune one if it’s not up to the job here in the UK. You want to fit and forget which doesn’t sound like this one is like that.
I’m sure it does the job but cosmetics is important too.

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Insta – @blue_rs_edition 

Focus RS Edition – FPM375, forged wheels

Impreza P1 – AP’s, 346bhp, mint

Clio 172 Cup turbo – track project, needs finished

Leon Cupra TFSi – 237bhp, white

[Dazh]

That’s one reason I opted for the ETS intercooler, it’s a pita having to repaint it after a year or two.

Daz

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Daz

 

[nicklulu]

ETS is anodized compared to Mountune that is powder coated.

[GM]

I wanted ETS or Spec R as it would do for more power than i need, build quality is much better than others i looked at. Bigger the max power limit, better the cooling was my thoughts 🥶

Went ETS as lucky to get one second hand in mint condition, cheap….. 😆

[nicklulu]

@GM, did you get the 4″ or the 5″?

[GM]

@nicklulu 26×8.75×4 core size it was what my mate had, & no bumper cutting 😆

[nicklulu]

@GM, thanks for the info. Yeah I was looking at the 4″ anodized blue from ETS from an RS owner $700 shipped.

The US Mountune FMIC is L640mm x H215mm x D122mm and I got it for $674 BNIB shipped.

 

[white-rs2]

The Mishimoto is on sale at the moment and the full kit with hard pipe.

The hard pipe is 2.5” and not a small restrictive mountune item.

Mishimoto is good kit and comes with a lifetime warranty. This will out perform the Mountune (From China) kit  Their are bigger coolers out their such as Soec-R, Norris Designs. All depends on what you want…..

https://www.mishimoto.co.uk/ford-focus-rs-performance-intercooler-kit-2015.html

 

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RS Edition.

FPM375 Rocks

The rest of the “M” maps suck

[white-rs2]

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RS Edition.

FPM375 Rocks

The rest of the “M” maps suck

[GM]

@nicklulu i gave £300 ish from a mate, was gold…… now black, but most prob will be silver soon 😆

@white-rs2 thats a good price, considering the price of the mountune pipe kit alone…. which i bought now want to change, was looking at the ETS pipe…until i seen nate’s 👍

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