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Originally Posted by 88turboii
i believe the stock tmic gets plenty of flow when you are moving at any reasonable speed. ive logged intake temps and they get pretty hot during boost, but then cool back down extremely quickly, within a couple seconds. I have the heat shield removed on mine though. but this tells me its not a flow problem, but more the stock IC does not have enough surface area to keep cool. im thinking increasing flow through the IC will not help as much as trying to increase the size the the intercooler. look at what REamemiya did with welding two cores together
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On my water injection page the silver 1st gen RX7 (440rwhp vid) has an intercooler like that I made personally which consisted of two S5 intercoolers welded end on end and front mounted. It could take 26psi boost not a problem.