black intercoolers??

are there things such as black intercoolers. cos i wana build a sleeper and the black intercooler will hide nicely behind the mesh.

is it true that the bigger the intercooler the more boost you can run??

go read up on intercooler therory. Its all about efficency, bigger doesnt always equal better i can tell you that now. u must pick a cooler to quite ur goals.

u can paint any intercooler black, you just have to be careful as u can wreak th heat transfer properties and make it less efficent. Just read up on google for correct techniques

our XR6T has a painted factory black intercooler, and after doing 10,000KM all the black paint is peeling off. As you can see by the pic below.


http://www.coresupreme.com/gallery/a...s/FILE0063.jpg


Just use the mesh like you said, you wont be able to see much unless you have a closer look.

when painting just paint the outside and leave the fins unpainted...that wont affect the heat transfer properties noticably at all

Intercoolers have to be properly sized to the application

There are black coolers around, they are usually anodised or something similar. Whether or not they are sold in Australia I couldnt comment, i'm sure they would though.

As for a larger cooler making more boost? Not really. It all depends on the size of the core and how efficiently it can cool. Go read up about BaP (Bar and Plate) coolers versus TaF (Tube and Fin) coolers. That'll give you a better indication of how a cooler works etc :)

Because you probably cant be bothered researching, I figure I might as well tell you the basics of both coolers. What the advantages and disadvantages can be.

Ok basically you want a cooler that will cool the air quickly, and most coolers will generally do this well. But people designed different coolers for different applications, some to cool air to the coolest it can get, and some to cool the air to some extent then pass it on.

Most original manufacturers that sell their 'coolers with a car (Mitsubishi etc), will more than likely be using a TaF 'cooler because of the fact that it can flow air quite quickly. The only way you can get a TaF core to cool as well as a BaP core is by making the core larger (maybe this is what you were driving at). But if you compared both a BaP and a TaF cooler of the same size, then the BaP would be in front for cooling purposes, but the TaF for flow reasons.

Hope this has helped your decision :)

theo reread what u ever read man, cos i thnk u got it all wrong...

This is how I was explained it all :? I edited a typo if u meant that lol.. Somebody please correct me if my post is wrong i'll endeavour to delete it somehow if it is :D

Only way you're gonna get your cooler black is by painting it... then mesh it with a silver mesh as a black mesh will allow you to see in more easily. (I know from experience :P )

In terms of bigger cooler and up'ing the boost, a bigger cooler may cool the air a bit more and therefore allowing a small increase in boost, but will also increase in lag....

A bigger (area) cooler doesn't necessarily mean you can cool more air, it's the thickness of the core that counts.

actually thats not correct, larger surface area is more important.

As air passes through the front of the intercooler it is heat by the transfer of heat from the intake gases flowing through the intercooler. So the air at the front of the intercooler will be cooler than the air exiting the back. Hence the intake charge being cooled by the back of the intercooler wont be cooled as efficiently, and so increasing surface area is more effective than increasing the thickness

just get a top mount :P

front mounts generally can cool better than top mount though right? due to obvious reason like the position and amount of air exposure?