Treadstone Intercooler, experience anyone?
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Treadstone Intercooler, experience anyone?
Hey guys - has anyone seen or used this intercooler? i just finished up winterizing the car and so begins the rebuild season. 
TRST9 Series Intercooler
If no one has used this before I may take the plunge in upgrading my current twin intercooler setup. Before anyone says go out and buy an ECS or A&A intercooler, I'd love to be sold on it as to why said intercooler is bar none the way to go. The twin intercoolers are a great concept, but I just feel like i could efficiently route a shorter piping run with a single intercooler.
TRST9 Series Intercooler
If no one has used this before I may take the plunge in upgrading my current twin intercooler setup. Before anyone says go out and buy an ECS or A&A intercooler, I'd love to be sold on it as to why said intercooler is bar none the way to go. The twin intercoolers are a great concept, but I just feel like i could efficiently route a shorter piping run with a single intercooler.
Burning Brakes
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I have the same core, but the twin inlet version. TRTTC9.
Does a great job. Houston summers, cruising around it is a few degrees above ambient at most and cools down very fast after making a pull. I don't feel any need to change it, ever.
402 twin turbo here
Does a great job. Houston summers, cruising around it is a few degrees above ambient at most and cools down very fast after making a pull. I don't feel any need to change it, ever.
402 twin turbo here
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We had them make us an intercooler a while back for a one off build we were doing figuring we could save some time, the quality was so poor we had to send it back.
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Good reading on choosing the right intercooler, efficiency and all that good stuff.
cooler_paper-1.pdf
cooler_paper-1.pdf
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Article seems to favor Air to Water. Unless I missed it, doesn't talk about temperature creep when Air to Water used in HPDE / road racing.
Good reading on choosing the right intercooler, efficiency and all that good stuff.
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how big is it compared to the A&A or ECS 
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I had taken measurements of my old aa intercooler before I sold it and I want to say it was 24L I cant remember the hight and width but one thing is forsure if ECS and A&A intercoolers were men, ECS would definitely be the black guy and A&A the white guy. Tread stone... I dont know... The asian guy???? Oh I forgot about dallas performance. They would be straight up congo black guy.
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This is from a build thread on YB. That 9'' tall core is good size. The picture in the link from the first post is a 6'' core.
http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=613745
http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=613745
Last edited by SBCGENII; Nov 20, 2013 at 12:45 AM.