Engine Best Intercooler?

[Deleted member 2480]

Or have a look at my video. In winter times no need for a bigger intercooler. But when ambient goes above 25°C I would reccomend one when going to track!

Really interesting video. 1 for the stats and 2 as looking at doing zolder next year lol

 

[telelaci]

You forget that the i30N already has an intercooler that works.
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You can see that the stock intercooler does a good job and the intake air temp difference is about 5°C. This gap will obv increase when running a tune, etc.
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You are basically right, I just wanted to mention that categorically stating that better intercoller doesn't count, and it's negligible, and it wont give you extra hp that is not precise.
The original IC is fine until you don't drive like a mad, you are a gentleman on the roads.
This is not the most typical behaviour with such a car. People tune these kind of cars. People wanna make it faster, more powerful. People lose licenses with hot hatches, unfortunately. It's hard to stay below the speed limits with hot hatches and sport cars, and people are a little wicked including me. I'm not happy to say that.

However the original IC becomes the weak link in the system, when you start to abuse the car, you go track, or you tune it. In that case you have to replace it.
Otherwise it's your choice, I'm not sure if it's worth the money. That's why I said "hmmm".

..but it will not add a significant amount of horsepower...

I said the same, 275hp to 285hp isn't very significant.
And it's quite expensive for the advantages. But it's something.
Like intake air filters. Also not so significant tuning only few percents. Still people keep replacing it, because it's something.
Although the IC is quite harmless tuning, while the oiled-cloth "perfomance" air filters have significantly worse filtering performance than the original one. Your intake air will have bigger dust particles and that's not good.

 

[Deleted member 2480]

Soooo I did what I wasn't going to do and started to get a few bits for the car to fit over the coming months before I do some track days in it :lol:

These rather large boxes arrived today -

containing these bits -

Larger boost hard boost pipe

Forge are apparently the best in the market for the i30n after all the testing but the 1 niggle I had was that they only did it in black which peeled off when you looked at it wrong which really put me off it.

Quick call and they did me a raw finished one and have now decided to sell them. Sadly they decided to not send a black boost pipe like it should be but a chrome one without asking. I bought the larger other remaining hard boost pipe which was only available in black at the same time. I was going to send it back for exchange but you cant see it so sod it.

This should keep temps down on track and keep the engine breathing better as the cooler is really small as standard.

They even sent a stencil to put forge on the cooler........ In the bin that went.

 

[jeroenvde]

You are selling the black one?

 

[Deleted member 2480]

You are selling the black one?

no why would i? They dont do any other colour lol New from forge they are not that expensive. usually discount codes floating around as well.

 

[jeroenvde]

no why would i? They dont do any other colour lol New from forge they are not that expensive. usually discount codes floating around as well.

Sorry I misread your post

 

[jeroenvde]

Threadbump!

I found this interesting looking new intercooler from Direnza.

Price wise and feature wise it looks like a great deal, aspecially with Forge and Wagner & others just beeing overpriced for a block of aluminium.

Hyundai i30N 2.0T 2017+ MVT Front Mount Intercooler Kit | Direnza

Hyundai i30N (PD) Hatchback 2017+ Models Hyundai i30N (PD) Fastback 2017+ Models Please Note: Suitable for manual models only

www.direnza.co.uk

Has anyone bought this unit yet? Looking for a little feedback