RS SAMA

I've had an RS500 style intercooler on my saph for a while now on stage 1 power with no issues, the car will soon be around 380bhp and that's when I decided to check what make the intercooler was because I've never checked since I put it on lol. I've checked and it's a Ram Air cooler which apparently came off a rally car! I've done loads of searches on here and google and nothing has come up for this type of cooler. Can anyone shed some light on these for me, and are they up to the job of keeping the temps down at that sort of power? Thanks.

foreigneRS

as your engine has a temperature sensor for the intake air, just check what that reads and it will tell you if the intercooler is working well or not

RS SAMA

I would but the car is in bits at the moment haha

Rsmat

iTrader: (2)

Then simply when it's running check the temps .. Not rocket is it ?.. But to
Answer you question I would think its fine mate ..

RS SAMA

I'll just leave it to Karl Norris to check that during mapping because I'll be driving it down with no boost etc. really what I was asking was has anyone heard of these coolers because google etc isn't bringing up much about them. Normally it brings you straight here.

foreigneRS

karl will soon tell you if something is not good enough

bigchez

This is true!

In all honesty its sounds like you're going for a stage 3 type setup with a live map and pretty much any RS500 style cooler is adequate for this.

RS SAMA

Yeah it's going for the 380 ish conversion all going well. I trust Karl's info 100% so I'm sure it will be fine. Lets hope it turns out to be better than I though

bigchez

i had the same on mine - live mapped with a 32 psi peak/28 held on siemens blacks with a very well ported head and t34.63. went well, you'll be pleased.