Have you ever seen a turbo off the header, under full boost, at high rpm (I know you have, just stating the obvious). They glow red like molten lava. Yes that does seem to me like that would heat the charge. No they dont glow when the turbo is 4+ feet of tubing down the exhaust line. My turbo happens to be conventional, right off the header, and believe they are the way to go (intercooled of course). However, I can see why they claim on their website that the have the lowest intake air temps in the industry. It just seems logical to me, that if the turbo is not glowing, that the temps would be cooler. Heck, you could put your hand over the end of an exhaust pipe and hold it there until the engine stalls and not burn your hands, but try doing that right off the header and you would be taking a trip to the emergency room. Im not here to argue about it, take it up with the people that make the claims on the ststurbo website. I am just making an observation, and it sounds plausible and they do work, however I do doubt they could be as efficient as a conventional intercooled system. Pushing the charge through the 6 feet of intake tube could theoretically act as an intercooler (not as efficient as a finned intercooler though), as isnt that what your doing when you intercool, as in push the charge through a type of radiator that adds surface area in feet from the turbo to the plenum and the radiator runs off ambient airtemp, as would the 6 feet of pipe that is not connected to the turbo or plenum other than by rubber hoses. Like I said though, I have not done side by side tests, and I am no expert like you are, it just seems logical to me that the farther away from the heat source, the cooler it would run, however I would expect the pressures to be lower.
constant problems with those STS kits. absolute garbage is right. I personally know of two ppl that had their rear mount kits. one on an Fbody and the other on a dodge magnum. garbage!
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