Hole in intercooler!!!!!!! - SRT Forums

a7594217 · 09-27-2006, 11:30 AM

Hi, i just found a rather large leak in my race intercooler. Its either on the seam or close to it where the core meets the endtanks. Are these repairable or is these trash now. This sucks

camwt79 · 09-27-2006, 12:49 PM

this recently happened to my agp race fmic too. large 7-8 inch crack in weld right where the endtank meets the core. I only had mine on for about 2-3k miles.

Jon@AGP · 09-27-2006, 12:53 PM

PM sent with instructions on what to do.

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camwt79 · 09-28-2006, 12:58 PM

Another satisfied customer. No sooner than i notified agp of my problem did they have a solution. thanks again jon for the excellent service. Ill get my info over to you asap.

a7594217 · 09-29-2006, 12:45 AM

i agree thanks. Ill be fully happy when its fixed though.

ZZiK · 10-05-2006, 11:43 AM

I just ran into the same exact problem with my big fmic.. i left numerous msgs at AGP and no answer from anyone yet.. What is the process? on this.

Jon@AGP · 10-05-2006, 12:07 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by ZZiK

I just ran into the same exact problem with my big fmic.. i left numerous msgs at AGP and no answer from anyone yet.. What is the process? on this.

PM Sent. Keep in mind that we don't open until 9am Arizona time, so if you leave a message earlier than that you probably will not get a response until we open.

bluert · 10-10-2006, 05:49 AM

Could all these failure due to the fact that none of you guys had any type of a front crash bar or brace? I guess that may be the case and not because anything wrong with the welds?
Over the weekend I seen one srt with the hood miss aligned a little since he had installed a fmic. That's what he'd noticed.

Ben@AGP · 10-10-2006, 11:51 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by bluert

Could all these failure due to the fact that none of you guys had any type of a front crash bar or brace? I guess that may be the case and not because anything wrong with the welds?
Over the weekend I seen one srt with the hood miss aligned a little since he had installed a fmic. That's what he'd noticed.

No, the problem we found is due to surge. The air fighting itself in the pressurized track is quite powerful and continuously beating against the end tanks can eventually cause them to split at the middle of the weld where it attaches to the end tank. It has nothing to do with the quality of the weld.

We made some changes to our end tanks about a year ago to make this area stronger and no one has had a problem since. That's not to say you will have a problem if you have one of our intercoolers that was built before this change, because we have plenty of people that have 3 years and over 70K miles with our intercoolers. We have just seen that the few that have had the end tanks split, it was due to surge.

If your car surges, turn the boost down.