26-09-2014, 10:57 PM
TBF the stock intercoolers are crap. The whole "increased lag" thing - meh frankly, if you're on the route of reducing lag to points you can barely perceive like worrying over TMIC vs FMIC... The turbo is the first thing I'd be looking at, not the pipework/IC. Fitting a turbo with a better A/R and reduced rotating mass will make more difference to threshold and lag than any pipework ever will..
Put it this way - if you were to actually put a price in terms of performance on either... The minutely increased lag would be so heavilly outweighed by the fact the charge temperature isn't a trillion degrees after bringing it on boost twice, you'd quickly go down the route of keeping the charge cool...
Just don't strap the back of a refrigerator to the front of your car and don't use 4" pipework and it'll be fine.
Put it this way - if you were to actually put a price in terms of performance on either... The minutely increased lag would be so heavilly outweighed by the fact the charge temperature isn't a trillion degrees after bringing it on boost twice, you'd quickly go down the route of keeping the charge cool...
Just don't strap the back of a refrigerator to the front of your car and don't use 4" pipework and it'll be fine.
