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Subaru WRX Front-Mount Intercooler 2015+

  1. Cool Your Charge! The 2015 WRX Front-Mount Intercooler Build, Part 4: Dyno Testing

    Cool Your Charge! The 2015 WRX Front-Mount Intercooler Build, Part 4: Dyno Testing

    Interested in picking up our 2015 WRX FMIC kit? Check out more details on our product page linked below!

    Mishimoto Subaru WRX Front-Mount Intercooler Kit

    Time for the fun part of development, product testing! Since this is an intercooler, we would certainly need to put the WRX on the dyno for some pulls and data collection. It would be interesting to see how the installation of a front-mount system has an impact on turbo spool, intake temperatures, and perhaps even power output.

    Testing Preparation

    The first step toward data collection is to prepare our sensor bungs and install our pressure and temperature sensors. We installed our bungs within the inlet and outlet intercooler couplers.

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  2. Cool Your Charge! The 2015 WRX Front-Mount Intercooler Build, Part 3: Pipe Routing and Fabrication

    Cool Your Charge! The 2015 WRX Front-Mount Intercooler Build, Part 3: Pipe Routing and Fabrication

    Interested in picking up our 2015 WRX FMIC kit? Check out more details on our product page linked below!

    Mishimoto Subaru WRX Front-Mount Intercooler Kit

    Front-mount intercooler installed
    Front-mount intercooler installed

    In the last portion of this series we completed the fabrication of our prototype intercooler core and tanks, as well as our new bumper beam. We now had everything in place to construct a piping kit that would route air from the turbocharger to the intercooler and back to the engine.

    Hot-Side Piping

    We started our piping with the hot-side of the intercooler system. The stock compressor

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  3. Cool Your Charge!  The 15' WRX Front-Mount Intercooler Build, Part 2: Core and Support Fabrication

    Cool Your Charge! The 15' WRX Front-Mount Intercooler Build, Part 2: Core and Support Fabrication

    Interested in picking up our 2015 WRX FMIC kit? Check out more details on our product page linked below!

    Mishimoto Subaru WRX Front-Mount Intercooler Kit

    Crash Beam Fabrication

    After an unsuccessful test fit of our existing bumper beam on the 15', we started from scratch to create a beam specific for the 15' chassis. First we hacked off the end tanks of our cooler so we were left with a bare core. This would provide some freedom to design our crash beam and later work on the end tank direction. Next we cut out some new mounting plates and fit them into position.

    Intercooler crash beam mounting plates
    Intercooler
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  4. Cool Your Charge! The 15' WRX Front-Mount Intercooler Build, Part 1: Project Plans

    Cool Your Charge! The 15' WRX Front-Mount Intercooler Build, Part 1: Project Plans

    Interested in picking up our 2015 WRX FMIC kit? Check out more details on our product page linked below!

    Mishimoto Subaru WRX Front-Mount Intercooler Kit

    15' WRX testing
    15' WRX testing

    Already outgrowing the efficiency of your 15' WRX top-mount intercooler setup? Planning for some big power in the near future? Sounds like your Subie needs an efficient front-mount intercooler (FMIC)! Luckily, our team has been working to develop this product for months. Check out the process below!

    Intercooler Design

    Our team decided to start this product with the design

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