Bar And Plate Intercooler Design

The thickness of an intercooler is a key factor in its ability to cool the charged airflow.

Bar and plate intercooler design.

Bell intercoolers fins are uniformly and fully brazed to the entire tube surface resulting in strongly sealed and leak proof cores. This allows the bar and plate to push more cfm airflow through the core and makes a more effective cooling unit. True the bar and plate design is a bit heavier than tube and fin but this is actually advantageous. There are significant differences in intercoolers not only in core construction bar and plate or tube and fin but also their design especially tank design.

Charge air from the turbo flows within enclosed passages in one direction with separate cooling passages flowing cooler ambient air in a perpendicular cross flow pattern to the charge air. Superior flow pattern and design the turbulator fin is the most visible and influential cooling component in our bar and plate cores. Its ability to soak up more heat is especially useful in. On 3 performance 3 aluminum intercooler bar and plate design 165 00 this is by far the most popular intercooler we sell and ships out of our shop daily to customers around the world.

The system is an easy to install direct bolt on design that is recommended at every stage of performance. The core acts as a heat sink. The inherent design of a bar and plate core promotes better heat transfer and is better at handling high boost applications than a tube and fin core. This is our proven intercooler that we have been using for more than a decade now up to around 700hp levels.

The apr intercooler system is a massive front mounted upgrade that dramatically reduces intake air temperature iat minimizes heat soak and provides increased performance. Front mount bar and plate design intercooler system by apr. There is a reason for the cost involved in buying a new intercooler whether it be are or another company and they do offer advantages over other options especially truck intercoolers.