Just subscribing. I have it on my car also.
Years ago I went 135+mph@3800+lbs in the 1/4 on a 64 turbo with an old Kenny bell front mount that had a 2.5 in piping.
Was it the first design with horizontal tubes or the second design with vertical tubes?
This isn't the worst flowing horizontal tubed intercooler about 750 cfm. The best flowing front mount intercoolers will have many more tubes for air to flow through and they will be shorter,flowing vertically. 1,500 cfm would be more ideal.
Pretty sure it was vertical flow.i will check and if it isn't will let you know.it was a smaller front mount and didn't take up the entire front end.
Yes,that is the second design/vertical tube. It flows about 1,000 cfm. The reason he switched from the bigger horizontal tubed intercooler to the smaller vertical tube one was because it flowed so much more air. He realized that cooling ability was not the be all end all. If the core is restrictive the turbine works harder and therefore heats the air unnecessarily. Bison has assembled a vertical tubed intercooler that improves on this design and flows 1,500 cfm. The second K-B design doesn't cool as well as the first,but it doesn't create extra heat unnecessarily because it is less restrictive. Less exhaust pressure,better evacuation of the cylinders on the exhaust stroke,cleaner less contaminated intake of air.The second design didn't cool as well as the first,but it allowed the production of more power. This small Kenne-Bell intercooler flows significantly more air than the Eastern front mount,but the Easter flows more air than most of the front mounts do.
This article mentions the 2 intercoolers with the least pressure drop,but never tells us what the numbers are. It doesn't show flow numbers. It does correctly mention that the CAS v4 has less pressure drop than some of the front mounts. The reason it flows so well is because there are more tubes to flow through and they are shorter which also helps flow. The information that is just as important as cooling ability is not given. CFM. We also don't know how fast the cars were that were used for the testing.
Guess that explains why my old car felt so fast with that little ATR front mount I use to have w/2.5 pipes..lol I always questioned the size back then.
It's an improvement over the Kenne-Bell because it has 16 more 6' long,3" wide tubes than the Kenne-Bell. Because of the greater amount of tubes,it flows more CFM and cools better than the Kenne-Bell.
Absolutely Depends on the weight of the car.I have seen 700rwhp cars fall shy of a 9sec pass car was 3700+
It was a good intercooler.I didnt worry about the colder charge because I was running twin nozzle.
Because I'm running E85,I feel the same.
He hasn't brought it to market. It will be very expensive if he does.
