Page 2 - Monthly Archives: September 2014

Mishimoto Subaru WRX/STi FMIC Kit, Part 1: Product Goals/Plans

Posted: September 18, 2014

Categories: Subaru WRX/STi Front-Mount Intercooler 2002-2014

Tags: wrx, turbo, teammishi, subaru, sti, rally, race, mishimoto, intercooler, front-mount, fmic, featured, fast, ej25, ej20, boost

Interested in purchasing our Subaru WRX or STi intercooler kit? Check out more details on our product pages linked below!

Mishimoto Subaru WRX/STi Front-Mount Intercooler, 2001-2007

Mishimoto Subaru WRX Front-Mount Intercooler, 2008-2014

Mishimoto Subaru STi Front-Mount Intercooler, 2008-2014

Mishimoto prototype intercooler installed on GR STI

Modifying your Subaru can be quite a slippery slope, especially when this wonderful pastime turns from a hobby to an obsession. Luckily, the enthusiast community is huge and always ready to provide support (or laughter), even when your

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Direct-Fit Oil Cooler Kit, Part 5: Final Data Review

Posted: September 15, 2014

Categories: BMW E46 M3 Oil Cooler Kit 2001-2006

Tags: turbo, tuning, track, teammishi, scca, s54, oil, mishimoto, heat exchanger, featured, euro, #e46, #bmw

Interested in purchasing this E46 oil cooler? Check out our product page for more information!

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Oil Cooler Kit

Mishimoto E46 M3 Oil Cooler Kit

The results are in and they are exactly what we expected! This cooler provided huge gains in cooling efficiency. Let's take a look at the data we compiled. First up is the core volume comparison.

Core volume comparison

As you can see, the Mishimoto oil cooler provides a huge increase in total core volume.

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Direct-Fit Oil Cooler Kit, Part 4: Cooler Installation and Data Collection

Posted: September 12, 2014

Categories: BMW E46 M3 Oil Cooler Kit 2001-2006

Tags: turbo, tuning, track, teammishi, scca, s54, oil, mishimoto, heat exchanger, featured, euro, #e46, #bmw

Interested in purchasing this E46 oil cooler? Check out our product page for more information!

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Oil Cooler Kit

Time to see if this cooler can make a significant impact on fluid temperatures. As before, we borrowed a test fit vehicle from the folks over at Open Road Tuning. Once we had the car on the lift, we removed the factory cooler lines and spliced our temperature sensors into the stock lines so we could collect inlet and outlet fluid temperatures.

Temperature sensors installed

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Direct-Fit Oil Cooler Kit, Part 3: Cooler Comparison and Adapter Installation

Posted: September 11, 2014

Categories: BMW E46 M3 Oil Cooler Kit 2001-2006

Tags: turbo, tuning, track, teammishi, scca, s54, oil, mishimoto, heat exchanger, featured, euro, #e46, #bmw

Interested in purchasing this E46 oil cooler? Check out our product page for more information!

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Oil Cooler Kit

Welcome to our third installment of the build! We are nearing the completion of this project, with only some final test fitting necessary and data collection to ensure that this product performs to our standards. First, take a look at the Mishimoto oil cooler compared to the stock unit.

Mishimoto prototype oil cooler (right) and stock oil cooler (left)

Ford Mustang 2.3L EcoBoost Intercooler Evaluation

Posted: September 10, 2014

Categories: Ford Mustang 2.3L EcoBoost Intercooler 2015+

Tags: scca, s550, race, mustang intercooler, mustang, intercooler, foxbody, featured, ecoboost intercooler, ecoboost

Here at Mishimoto Automotive, we're really excited for the new Ecoboost Mustang.

So excited in fact that we couldn't wait for the car to get here to begin Product Development.

We have a factory Mustang intercooler in house and are going to begin analyzing it while we wait for a development car to arrive. In the meantime, we wanted to give our fellow enthusiasts a quick look at what the factory unit looks like.

Check out the video and image gallery below!

Expect to see a lot more from us in the coming months. We'll be posting in-depth development threads, showing you all the different testing and analysis that goes into each and every one of our products.

In the meantime, what else do you want

Mishimoto 2015 Subaru WRX Thermostatic Oil Cooler Kit, Part 1: Product Introduction and Reasoning

Posted: September 10, 2014

Categories: Subaru WRX Oil Cooler Kit 2015+

Tags: wrx, turbo, track, subaru, scca, oil, heat, featured, fa20dit

Interested in purchasing our thermostatic WRX oil cooler? Check out our product page for more information!

Mishimoto Subaru WRX Oil Cooler Kit

After releasing our most recent direct-fit oil cooler kit for the 2015 Subaru WRX, questions from our fan base and online communities began to fill our inboxes. Our kit included all necessary components for installation and placed a large 19-row oil cooler in the front grille area. We saw huge gains in cooling performance for this particular setup, with decreases of over 25°F. This project was extremely successful and we anticipated that our customers would be very pleased with the performance. The primary concern with a portion of enthusiasts was low fluid temperatures. This kit was designed with a vehicle-specific oil sandwich plate that sat on top of the factory oil cooler/warmer.

This was a truly unique design, however the one feature this component lacked was an

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Direct-Fit Oil Cooler Kit, Part 2: Cooler Design and Prototyping

Posted: September 09, 2014

Categories: BMW E46 M3 Oil Cooler Kit 2001-2006

Tags: turbo, tuning, track, teammishi, scca, s54, oil, mishimoto, heat exchanger, featured, euro, #e46, #bmw

Interested in purchasing this E46 oil cooler? Check out our product page for more information!

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Oil Cooler Kit

Our team now had a functioning oil line adapter to convert from the stock oil filter housing to -AN fittings. Now we would be able to move forward with designing the actual heat exchanger for our kit. We reached out to a few of our local friends and sourced this Oxford green example!

Test vehicle on lift

Our friend Andrew at Open Road Tuning was kind enough to loan his vehicle for a week of development! First we tore off the stock cooler to get a look at what kind of space we had to work with.

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Page 2 - Monthly Archives: September 2014

Mishimoto Subaru WRX/STi FMIC Kit, Part 1: Product Goals/Plans

Interested in purchasing our Subaru WRX or STi intercooler kit? Check out more details on our product pages linked below!

Mishimoto Subaru WRX/STi Front-Mount Intercooler, 2001-2007

Mishimoto Subaru WRX Front-Mount Intercooler, 2008-2014

Mishimoto Subaru STi Front-Mount Intercooler, 2008-2014

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Direct-Fit Oil Cooler Kit, Part 5: Final Data Review

Interested in purchasing this E46 oil cooler? Check out our product page for more information!

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Oil Cooler Kit

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Direct-Fit Oil Cooler Kit, Part 4: Cooler Installation and Data Collection

Interested in purchasing this E46 oil cooler? Check out our product page for more information!

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Oil Cooler Kit

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Direct-Fit Oil Cooler Kit, Part 3: Cooler Comparison and Adapter Installation

Interested in purchasing this E46 oil cooler? Check out our product page for more information!

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Oil Cooler Kit

Ford Mustang 2.3L EcoBoost Intercooler Evaluation

Mishimoto 2015 Subaru WRX Thermostatic Oil Cooler Kit, Part 1: Product Introduction and Reasoning

Interested in purchasing our thermostatic WRX oil cooler? Check out our product page for more information!

Mishimoto Subaru WRX Oil Cooler Kit

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Direct-Fit Oil Cooler Kit, Part 2: Cooler Design and Prototyping

Interested in purchasing this E46 oil cooler? Check out our product page for more information!

Mishimoto BMW E46 M3 Oil Cooler Kit

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