Monthly Archives: August 2019

Like the Stinger's launch, we're also making our own sizable splash and causing some ripples with our intercooler kit. In case you haven't caught up on your Mishimoto Stinger news, our plan for keeping intake air temperatures down in the Stinger GT means a much larger, much more streamlined intercooler design. The intercooler might be playing a significant role, but it still needs the supporting cast.

Enter the new and improved Mishimoto intercooler piping kit. While it's still in the planning phase, these bits of 3D printed plastic are the physical manifestation of the models on our engineer's work station, and the ones we can use for testing the fitment. Let's dive into the specifics of each piece.

As we went over in our review of the stock system, this is an interesting take on a piping system for an engine with more than one turbo. Nonetheless, it's still going to be a choke point for the charged air, especially if the boost is turned up. Completely changing the routing of the hot-side

It's almost against the laws of nature to see a calm, serene pond and not want to throw rocks in it. I'm sure you get where I'm coming from. In this case, that pond is the proverbial state of the luxury sedan market, and here comes Kia with the biggest rock that it can find. That rock, the Stinger GT.

Where the Stinger made a big splash on its own, we want to make sure the ripples make their way around the pond. Basically, the Stinger rolled off the assembly line with some serious potential, but there's still room to grow, specifically when it comes to the intercooling system.

As we covered in our last post, the Stinger's stock intercooling system isn't quite up to snuff for the 3.3L V6 with turbocharged backup. In the age of forced induction, tunes and maps run the world, and stock intercoolers can't keep up. Our engineering team is already on the case to give the Stinger GT's intercooling system a little more breathing room.

Increasing size is step one when it comes to effectively exchanging

It seems like some sort of cruel joke that prime racing season takes place in the peak of the summer's heat. Heat is the inherent byproduct of the engine's power source, but too much of it can keep you sidelined for the day. Yet, dozens of teams descended on New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, NJ this past weekend to set their flying laps for Global Time Attack.

Blistering lap times is the name of the game for Global Time Attack. In the sweltering South Jersey August heat, it tends to be the coolant and oil that ends up blistering. Where Mishimoto is no stranger to keeping your modified daily driver or drift rocket from overheating, we took a day at the track to see how we helped these drivers across all the classes push the limits around NJMP's Lightning Circuit.

United Speed Racing

If you've been following any of our Civic Type R development, you should be no stranger to United Speed Racing. If you aren't familiar, the short story is that the tag team efforts of Chinchi Chaing and

When you put your foot down in the Q50, or any car for that matter, the force that shoves you back in the seat isn't just the work of one or two things, but rather the wonderous team effort of hundreds of moving parts. From the gears turning, the crank spinning the pistons, to the coolant gushing through the cooling and intercooling systems, this collaboration results in the harmonious sound of the VR warble and powerful forward thrust.

It's no secret that enthusiasts like us want to pile more on to that acceleration. Once we dug into our donor vehicle, we found that the stock heat exchanger can be the weak link in the chain pulling the Q50 forward, and leaves something more to be desired. After some preliminary R&D, we determined just what needs to be done with the heat exchanger to bring it all together.