The APR Intercooler System is a massive front mounted upgrade that dramatically reduces intake air temperature (IAT), minimizes heat soak, and provides increased performance! The system is an easy to install, direct bolt-on design, that is recommended at every stage of performance. 

Design:

Core Design:

The APR Intercooler core is a large bar-and-plate design featuring densely packed staggered and louvered fins.

This design offers exceptional cooling while balancing pressure loss across the core, and maintaining critical airflow to the components behind the intercooler system.

The core size was appropriately matched to the platform, minimizing pressure drop while leaving adequate space for appropriately designed end tanks.

To APR’s mechanical engineering experts, the design represented the ultimate in performance, far exceeding the capabilities of the factory intercooler.

To the driver, the result is simple: Repeatable performance, even in the most demanding of situations!

End Tank Design:

To fully utilize the massive core, APR’s mechanical engineers designed cast aluminum end tanks organically shaped for proper airflow distribution across the entire core.

By correctly sizing the intercooler core, end tank design was not sacrificed. The one-piece end tanks are CNC machined to provide a slip resistant mounting surface for hoses, precise integrated mounting surfaces, and perfectly flat connecting surfaces used for TIG welding the tanks to the core.

Through proper alignment in welding jigs, each unit is assembled to tight tolerances for a precise and accurate fit.

Bracket Design:

APR’s mechanical engineers designed CNC-bent and TIG-welded mounting brackets to securely hold the intercooler in place.

The brackets make the install extremely easy. With the bumper and factory intercooler unit removed, the APR intercooler installs in minutes without any cutting, drilling or trimming.

For the DIY customer, this makes a home install simple, and for everyone else it eliminates hidden costs that often come with a more labor intensive install.

Testing:

he APR intercooler saw a beginning IAT of 29.25 °C that quickly dropped to 25.50 °C by the end of the first run and settled at only 34.50 °C by the end of the sixth run.

The system effectively rejected heat soak and produced consistent dyno results.

In stark contrast, the factory intercooler system did far worse. With a cooler beginning IAT of 27 °C, temperature rose to a staggering 42.5 °C after only the first run, already resulting in a poorer IAT than the APR intercooler after six back-to-back runs!

As testing continued, it was clear the factory intercooler system was not built with performance in mind.

IAT’s continued to rise, ending at 57.75 °C; an additional 23.25 °C higher than the APR system!

This translated to a final gain of 17 AWHP over the factory intercooler by the sixth run while the power only varied by under 3 AWHP across all six runs with the APR Intercooler.