New Intercooler for Transverse 3.5L Ecoboost

[FoMoCoSHO]

Has anyone stuffed one of these in an MKS yet?

[Agentlongwood]

Has anyone stuffed one of these in an MKS yet?

For real... I want to see if it makes a bigger difference, or a smaller difference.  I can't help but feel like the MKS grill is just massively inferior than the SHO grill in terms of letting air flow through the intercooler.  The split wings means it's blocked right smack in the middle

[fast1195]

Finally somewhere I can chime in! I fit the Gearhead intercooler into my 13 MKS and just picked it up today.

Long story short, another driver hit me. Insurance covered whole front clip, gearhead intercooler released about that time. Collision shop slapped it in for free because they already had the crash bar off. Shitty situation turned around 360

Decided on a clear bra and ceramic coating... so i had to sit for over a month with the intercooler installed and couldn't test it (to let the paint cure).

Have a Livernois tune, and my butt dyno is very happy. Unfortunately because it was such a long wait, I'm full of "this is wild to drive" joy and dont have any quantitative comparisons yet. Turbo whistle is louder sooner, but haven't been anywhere near heat soak conditions.


I have an SCT from a friend who no longer has his car that I'm looking for a way to unmarry, but planning to put a GearHead tune optimized for the intercooler soon.

Was laying down 12.9s in SE MI last September, I should have a test and tune day coming up in the next month or so...


-B

[limited02]

Finally somewhere I can chime in! I fit the Gearhead intercooler into my 13 MKS and just picked it up today.

Long story short, another driver hit me. Insurance covered whole front clip, gearhead intercooler released about that time. Collision shop slapped it in for free because they already had the crash bar off. Shitty situation turned around 360

Decided on a clear bra and ceramic coating... so i had to sit for over a month with the intercooler installed and couldn't test it (to let the paint cure).

Have a Livernois tune, and my butt dyno is very happy. Unfortunately because it was such a long wait, I'm full of "this is wild to drive" joy and dont have any quantitative comparisons yet. Turbo whistle is louder sooner, but haven't been anywhere near heat soak conditions.


I have an SCT from a friend who no longer has his car that I'm looking for a way to unmarry, but planning to put a GearHead tune optimized for the intercooler soon.

Was laying down 12.9s in SE MI last September, I should have a test and tune day coming up in the next month or so...


-B

If you don't have the original car to unmarry from, your best bet is to call SCT and pay to have it unlocked.  Have you reached out to LMS to see what can be done to optimize the tune for the new intercooler?  Another option and last I heard, they were offering up to $200 trade in for the old MyCal towards a new MyCal touch.  I believe that'll give you an opportunity to datalog to improve the tune for the intercooler.  Otherwise, GearHead is hard to beat and they've been laying down great numbers.