They are all insane nice quality. Ive had the shearer and 417 in my hands before. Both are super nice. The tick ones look just as good. Check them out on Instagram also. They’re always posting intercooler fabrication stuff.

 

I think they are extremely overpriced, go buy a Mishimoto core from eBay and take it to a tig welder, I paid a couple hundred for the core and a local welder 2 hours of labor, total cost was about 75% of the cost.

I precut the aluminum on a band saw and pressure tested it which checked out fine...my welder gave me assurances if it had any leaks he would touch it up for free, fortunately it held 50 psi for over a hour which was good enough for me.

Go watch 6061 on YouTube for how to work with aluminum, good stuff there.

 

More like underpriced, try and buy something for a Buick stage 2 V6, then you will understand overpriced. Something like this would be an easy 5k or more. Mishimoto sells crap parts, I have purchased a couple of their parts for my M3 and it looks like their engineers are high school kids.
Mike

 

They are cool. I know the Tick quality is very good. Are they 2K cool?

 

Oh for sure they aren’t cheap. But they aren’t fabbed ends. They’re billet.
lots of work to make one for sure with intake mounting flange, tanks etc.

 

Intercoolers

Proudly handmade with great care, a lot of pride and a bit of love.

shearerfabrications.com

 

Yep shearer stuff looks nice I guess I should ask who is using these and what one has the best iat .

 

I really wanted one, but the price is just a killer. Not just the cooler, but a new hood as well.

 

The thin 417 motorsports one I haven’t herd a single good thing about I’ve seen a few shearer fab ones and all say they work but don’t look as good as I thought they would for the money

 

Yea I dont think they make the thin 417 motorsports one anymore.

 

If its a street/strip deal they are fine for the most part. They have no place on a max effort race engine. If you will go back and search the archives there are some very informative threads where they didn't perform as advertised/rated when one of our members put full instrumentation on one from 417 Motorsports. The owner at 417 finally quit taking his calls and it got a bit ugly from what I remember. Shearer is a good dude and I know he uses a different core setup in his large capacity models. I would call him direct and get it from the horse's mouth. The Tick unit may be great but I don't know of anyone running one on here or in my area. Good luck and be sure to let us know your results.

 

Yes it's a street strip type car would like to do a drag week type 8.50 index car

 

Also where is the best place for a iat. And map sensor on these intakes. I seen motion makes one to put a map on the back of it. I have a holley dominator.

 

If someone wants to step up to a Garrett Intercooler core you can find them on ebay for around 300-400

 

These a/w brick setups are neat but I didn't want a 10 inch tall setup on my car. I have Ron Shearer's a/a intercooler.

 

there were some good posts on some detailed testing of IAT drop and flow restriction and actual engine test results.

Not so hot, in fact way TOO HOT and there are many other options that flow better, cool better, and cost less.

This is a beaut of a product and cool for packaging and strip only where you can keep everything cool

didn't work too well after heat soaking from the intake and engine heat.

 

I know two people running the Shearer units and they definitely work.

 

The new Low Ram is a good option. It has more plenum volume, redesigned angled runner entries and a higher flowing lid design that has more area in the throat where the original design had a choke point. Also the new design has all the perimeter bolts going from the top down other than the couple at the front below the inlet.

 

Yes,that low ram is a nice manifold, ICT billet do a 1" thick spacer that lifts the lid up higher- allowing the incoming airflow to make the turn into the front cylinders a bit easier. And increase plenum volume even more. It's on my list for my new Dart LS combo.