Hi all
I am thinking about a 2nd hand one of these ARC intercoolers that has come up for sale. I was wondering if anyone had much info about them? Is there an improvement in the cooling with these over the stock intercooler that warrants the outlay? What benefits am I likely to see?
My car has HKS cat back exhaust, and HKS F-con already.
Thanks

anyone got any info at all?

Scott - obviously I don't have an AW11, but I noticed a decent improvement when I ditched my stock core for an bigger one. Less pressure drop and cooler air charge is never a bad thing with forced induction. Any air-to-air still required decent airflow to be effective though. It would really shine if in the future you wanted to run a higher boost pulley too.

I have ARC airbox and cooler setup on my G-Limted, the result is worth the change. but I dont have data in measuring it improvement, maybe until I dyno turn it later next month.
 

AW11VIC - thanx. I might go look at the actual intercooler. It looks a little damaged in photos. Also, I assume it will need custom piping to connect??
Mine would still have the stock air box- probably for ever... so flow is never going to be great but a better core should help. I understand the basic theory of it, just not sure if it applied so much with supercharger vs turbo

I've heard the arc coolers are supposed to make a noticeable difference but I can never find one to buy... I was under the impression the ones built specifically for the aw11 should just bolt on without any changes.

here is the pics of it. The outlet connections are in different locations to the stock intercooler imo..
 
http://s1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj583/mr2pod/  

 


 

the picture shown is the correct cooler built for AW11 direct install.

thanks AW11VIC. will go check it out

Wow its pretty beat up. every one ive seen is for fwd corollas dammit. still looks like it'd need some work to fit.