Okay, so in the last blog part 3 we told you guys we would talk about my favorite part of our new 2022+ Honda Civic Front Mount Intercooler; the end tanks. What we didn’t tell you is that our newly designed end tanks have more awesome features. So today in part 4 we’ll tell you about that other cool stuff and then finish off by introducing you to the large core that is going to fit behind your bumper and make EPIC POWA!!!

The name of the game with this FMIC system has been all about free power. What things can we do to get as low of intake air temps and as much power as we possibly can? We already showed you the airfoils we added to maximize the work of the core. We also shared with you the little squiggly lines that function as heat sinks in part 3 and explained some more about how the pitch of the airfoils helps reject heat as well. What did we do next? Made the end tanks give us more free power!!!

If you look into the inlet end tank side of our new L15 11th-Gen intercooler you are going to see 3x little speed bumps. Those are vortex generators. Now if you have heard that word before it may be because the 10th gen Honda Civic Type R uses them at the end of its roof line. Vortex generators are small little vanes, usually attached to airfoils (like wings on a plane or the roof of your car), that are designed to help delay flow separation and aerodynamic stalling. Air has a mass and that mass requires some effort to move. Whenever you get air moving really fast over a surface it wants to stick to said surface and not move forward as fast. In extreme cases like on an aircraft you basically get air that stops moving and sometimes wants to move back. While pushing boost through our intercooler kit we don’t want any air left behind. Keep things moving! 

We use these 3x vortex generators at very specific angles to keep the air moving optimally through the inlet by getting it to spin before the air hits the airfoils and the inner surface of the tank. As you may recall from earlier blogs, we actually want some of that turbulence. The air is forced to go over a larger surface area giving more space for heat to be rejected.

Next up you will see the large 27WON “W” logo predominantly displayed on each end tank. They are not there just for looks and showing the world that you got the best intercooler on the market for your Honda. They also are heat sinks! Just like the squiggle lines we talked about in Part 2, the large W is a raised heat sink to help pull heat out. OK, enough about the end tanks. Let's talk about the core.

The heart of a front-mount intercooler upgrade is the core itself. This is where all the boosted air goes rushing through in an effort to get rid of as much heat as it possibly can. There are a lot of things we want to consider when we select a core design; Things like core density and fin angle/pitch all have a part to play. We did tons of research and testing of these things for our 10th gen kit. Because the new 11th Gens still uses an L15 engine and small frame turbo we can use this great starting place for core selection. The 11th gen core will make full use of the lower bumper opening. While slightly smaller than our 10th Gen core due to constraints Honda has given us with the new aesthetic, we maximized the size for the space. This size gives us the best use of the area to cool the charge air. We’ve compared the core to the competition. This is not an Off-The-Shelf core or roll-over from the 10th Gen. It’s the biggest core that can fit on the car without permanent modifications.

We have spent a lot of time in our design studio running sims and crunching numbers to build out the perfect intercooler core. With everything you’ve learned so far, we think you’ll agree, this innovative FMIC kit will REDEFINE the Aftermarket yet again. 

In our next blog, we’ll share with you some of our prototypes and samples. We are close to having a functional kit on our shop cars. Till next time.

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-Vincent