2709-IC-AA
£457.50
The mountune high-performance alloy intercooler for the Mk8 Fiesta ST provides the ultimate cooling upgrade for those wanting a fully optimised and data-backed solution, for the management of air charge temperature on their standard, or modified 3-cylinder EcoBoost engine.
Extensive temperature and pressure testing was carried out within an environmental test laboratory to ensure our revised design and core configuration was providing optimum cooling performance, yielding a minimal pressure drop across the core and ensuring no adverse affect to the upper cooling pack's ability to maintain engine coolant temperature (something a full-height intercooler can negatively affect).
Using a custom-built high-performance 8-row extruded tube and fin core to both maximise the available package space and to ensure the perfect balance of performance - reducing air charge temperature and also to ensure efficiency in terms of pressure drop across the core, the mountune alloy intercooler upgrade excels in both, as validated in temperatures ranging from 0ºC - 40ºC.
The OE intercooler end tank design is not very efficient, so as well as ensuring the perfect core type and size was utilised, high-flow end tanks were designed that also improve airflow and further assist with ensuring the best possible pressure drop across the intercooler, compared to OE.
No cutting or modification is required to the OE cooling pack during installation and the intercooler, which is finished in a durable black powder coat, is also supplied with a 'mountune' stencil for you to easily add a logo, should you desire.
More detailed test data can be found below, but here's the key performance highlights:
*at ambient temperatures ranging from 0ºC - 30ºC.
Features:
The mountune intercooler also forms the foundation for an expanded range of airflow and oil cooling enhancements that have been engineered to work together in perfect harmony, due for release in Q3 this year.
data-backed performance improvements
in ambient temps from 0ºc - 40ºc
Extensive temperature andpressure testing was carried out within an environmental testlaboratory to ensure our revised design and coreconfiguration was providing optimum cooling performance, yielding a minimal pressure drop across the core and ensuring no adverse affect to the upper cooling pack's ability to maintain engine coolant temperature.
with a controlled ambient air temperature, simulated runs were performed starting from the same trigger condition to ensure directly comparable data.
The result of which shows the mountune intercooler substantially outperforming the OE unit across all ambient temperature ranges, providing a considerable temperature drop improvement and also delivering a real world performance benefit, up to twice as efficient as the OE unit in terms of its ability to cool the outlet charge air.
shown next to the OE intercooler, the visible size difference is obvious between the two units, with the bespoke size mountune core 44% larger by volume and designed to fully maximise the area in the lower cooling pack.
Due to the cross-car beam directly above, full-height units do not benefit from additional airflow by comparison but can actually inhibit the radiators cooling performance, by restricting airflow through it.
The mountune intercooler also forms the foundation for an expanded range of airflow and oil cooling enhancements that have been engineered to work together in perfect harmony, due for release in Q3 this year.
