No need to get angry, just asking a question about some advice given to me in the thread. I already did read up on the issue of intercooler without tune and cant recall anyone saying that it can seriously damage your engine.
Nah gonna wait till I get full exhaust, actuator & flapper/or throw the bigger turbo in. I had no intention of throwing this much cash into this thing but once you pop you cant stop as im sure you will learn.
Its like driving a totally different car at night when compared to the day with this heat, cant wait for summer to end. Best time I could get was 12.8@109 with stock cooler on a bloody hot day, interested to see how it goes on a cool day with the upgraded cooler.
Got the work done at BTA motorsport in campsie (across from pickles auctions), highly recommend. I nearly didn't get my one also but won it at the max I was gonna spend which was 22.5k all up, car dealers always jack the price up - but the body didn't have a single ding or any drilled holes etc only the front seat was slightly worn from the cops gun belts rubbing the chairs. A replacement seat in excellent condition is $300 from ford wreckers in Smithfield so not a big issue anyway.
Btw I spent $3500 getting the car to 285rwkw included a xcal/tune, cat, injectors, herrod CAI & Herrod intercooler piping. Since then I replaced the stock intercooler with a rapid V2 which should see it somewhere around 300
I found they were in pretty bad condition at manheim when I was looking to buy one 2 months back, heaps of dings, scratches, wearing etc. Ended up finding a pretty good one at pickles auctions but they dont stock many.
Just had Chris from Rapid Systems install a rapid intercooler the other day using my herrod piping kit from earlier mods. From what I understand the cooler was not previously compatible with the Herrod piping kit but Chris made a set of lower pipes that made it fit so it works out a lot cheaper just buying the core with the lower pipes to have it thrown in. Overall I am very happy with the cooler and the vehicle has picked noticeably more power.
Just cut the grill on my FG with a rapid intecooler using the blade from a hack saw, was a bit worried about doing it at first as there's no going back, but im happy with how it turned out. Very easy to do took about 5 minutes.