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[GregZ]

I am going to install a FMIC soon. Do i go with delta fin or bar and plate. I did some research and heard that the bar and plate design is much stronger and can take more of a beating, but tube and fin(delta fin) intercoolers ate more heat efficient. i dont know what to do so i decided to get some real capri expert advice    

Greg.

[Gus Kelley]

Hey Greg! Everyone I'm in touch with has gone to plate and bar units. The other style is supposedly more efficient but availability is none. Also the plate and bar supposedly will withstand higher pressures in the generally available units. Gus

[icurunnin]

be original and go liquid to air    
j/k I would like to go liquid to air but this is my daily driver and I am not about to spend that kind of bank roll on this car  

I have run both bar and plate and tube and fin and have not seen a difference in the two. Your tube and fin are going to be your factory intercooler off other cars that were turbo stock. Most of your intercoolers out now will all be bar and plate.

I personally was thinking of looking into a early 90's turbo supra intercooler. They travel top to bottom like our stock units and run longer. I have to get my hands on one and see though. They are tube and fin and have the inlet and outlet on the same side which is what I would like considering I am the only one here who is keeping a/c.

[icurunnin]

Supra intercooler pic