Intercooler / turbo / lag

[BRUCE <BRUCE@mannlawfirm.com>]

My e-mail has been down for a bit, so catching up on some reading here.  Very interesting thread on intercooler eff.

My question is this:

Given the flow numbers STEADI posted, it would appear that when a turbo mod is done, the old intercooler must go.  What I am wondering is this---if you do a turbo mod, let's say adding a RS2, and you chip the car, but keep the single pass [20v?] intercooler, what have you effectively got?  In other words, how much of the RS2 potential are you not going to see?  Numbers make it look like the intercooler upgrade needs to be done first, or else you really don't use the turbo you have on the car?

Btw, I see some bitchin' about the techno geek stuff---please, keep it coming.  This is great stuff.


Bruce