Kpeng's $200 eBay Intercooler Experience

zinner · 09-24-2016, 05:15 PM

I made another logs today, I await your criticism.

mbanks21 · 09-24-2016, 05:31 PM

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I made another logs today, I await your criticism.

A million times better.

zinner · 09-24-2016, 05:33 PM

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I made another logs today, I await your criticism.

A million times better.

the guy at McDonald's was pissed

Dr Thrillride · 09-24-2016, 06:10 PM

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the guy at McDonald's was pissed

Mine arrives Monday. Slow boat from China. Literally.

Dr Thrillride · 09-27-2016, 07:34 PM

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I made another logs today, I await your criticism.

Can anyone objectively interpret this?

stxf30 · 09-27-2016, 08:16 PM

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I made another logs today, I await your criticism.

Can anyone objectively interpret this?

Looks like approx. 10 degree rise over the course of the logs.

stxf30 · 09-27-2016, 08:19 PM

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I made another logs today, I await your criticism.

@zinner what was the ambient temperature during that pull?

zinner · 09-27-2016, 09:00 PM

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I made another logs today, I await your criticism.

@zinner what was the ambient temperature during that pull?

86 it's in the graph as ambient temperature

stxf30 · 09-27-2016, 09:05 PM

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I made another logs today, I await your criticism.

@zinner what was the ambient temperature during that pull?

86 it's in the graph as ambient temperature

Doh...that's what I get for looking at it on my phone. Not bad IMO.

D Unit · 09-27-2016, 10:03 PM

Subscribed.

Who is going to start the Ebay downpipe thread???

TommyLights · 09-27-2016, 10:29 PM

Crickets from the haters.

kpeng · 09-28-2016, 07:42 AM

zinner · 09-28-2016, 06:13 PM

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Subscribed.

Who is going to start the Ebay downpipe thread???

I got one of those as well, fit perfectly.

mike@x-ph.com · 09-28-2016, 06:54 PM

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Crickets from the haters.

Not really no, but at this point everything that needs to be said has been said .. Now it is up to the users to decide if this is worth their money

Lots of crucial info is missing from that log
What are the 3 gears?

Number that are posted are not good .. Here is a comparison to Wagner EVO 1 performance which is Wagner's worst intercooler

Wagner EVO 1 goes up the same degrees on a 4 gear pull vs the EBAY intercooler doing it on a 3 gear pull .. If you had continued with the pull until the end of the 5th gear temps would be up another 20 degrees easily

Again, this is Wagner's worst intercooler doing at least 20 degrees better than this ebay intercooler

Dr Thrillride · 09-28-2016, 07:43 PM

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Not really no, but at this point everything that needs to be said has been said .. Now it is up to the users to decide if this is worth their money

Lots of crucial info is missing from that log
What are the 3 gears?

Number that are posted are not good .. Here is a comparison to Wagner EVO 1 performance which is Wagner's worst intercooler

Wagner EVO 1 goes up the same degrees on a 4 gear pull vs the EBAY intercooler doing it on a 3 gear pull .. If you had continued with the pull until the end of the 5th gear temps would be up another 20 degrees easily

Again, this is Wagner's worst intercooler doing at least 20 degrees better than this ebay intercooler

Nice chart Mike. Easy to see what's going on. Did you construct that chart with an application or what app is producing it with your raw data?

misguided_will · 09-29-2016, 01:52 AM

to the layman, is this good, bad or ugly?

zinner · 09-29-2016, 08:29 AM

I dunno that 5th gear pull is only 1300 RPM sweep that's TERRIBLE, the irony is just EPIC.

There is no ambient temp, their are no boost numbers. Maybe it's running stock boost, maybe it's 60F outside. Where are the Wagner users data and not marketing from Wagner charts.

kpeng · 09-29-2016, 09:16 AM

I think we've seen what we need to see. Those of us with the eBay one have no issues. Vendors are going to defend their pocketbooks. Take from this thread what you will.

swreefkeeper · 09-29-2016, 09:27 AM

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I dunno that 5th gear pull is only 1300 RPM sweep that's TERRIBLE, the irony is just EPIC.

Im not here to defend Wagner as I do not have their intercooler but the 1500 rpm in 5th gear was after running it to redline in 2nd, 3rd, then 4th. Whole different ball game. Almost every intercooler is going to be better than stock. The question is do you want to pay more to have that ever so slight edge?

mbanks21 · 09-29-2016, 09:47 AM

Unfortunately I'm having possible diverter vale issues or I'd post some nice logs. I'm having the dealer look at it on Monday, hopefully they don't give me stink about the CP/DP/and IC (removing the JB4)

Smee · 09-29-2016, 09:59 AM

anyone got a link to one of these cheap coolers?

mike@x-ph.com · 09-29-2016, 10:05 AM

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I think we've seen what we need to see. Those of us with the eBay one have no issues. Vendors are going to defend their pocketbooks. Take from this thread what you will.

I think no matter what i post you are still going to defend you decision to buy a cheap product which is completely fine.

I said that couple times in this thread, as long as user is happy with the numbers posted and they think this is the right intercooler for them, then good luck.
Just dont claim this cheap core to be on the same level as the brand ones

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