Originally Posted by Stig One

Come on down to florida i would be happy to show you.I do not post photos of customer cars without permission.

Mark

I never cracked on you or helix and never met you or purchased your product. I do like what helix offers the buying public and you have good reputation.If you read some of my posts you will see that i prefer your intercooler over alta.



Time to get back to my Bristol Beaufighter project.

Originally Posted by Mark@Helix

we based our r56 stepped core intercooler off of our extremely successful 335i design. a little history we posted cad and solidworks drawings as well as had working prototypes in testing(R&D to release a perfect product and not until it was a perfect product) on this site far in advance of the Forge offering. as a side bar this was posted on MINI2.com to get the facts and timeline straight...
http://www.mini2.com/forum/second-ge...items-r56.html

"I had Forge try and build an intercooler for my R56 MCS, they had the car for two weeks and made many tests concluding that there wasnt room for a worthwhile intercooler and the one on it was efficient."

as far as our intercooler is concerned it is a single core(not 2 cores) we have built specifically for this platform and features ambient and charge fin densities that we found through our testing(we tested different cores)to be the best balance of ait and pressure drop. The Helix FMIC is a custom model specific design from the ground up.
About me, I have over 20 years of turbo design and tuning experience, my personal vehicles and those that I have worked on have been featured in European Car, Sport Compact Car, Sema, Ultimate Street Car Challenge and Forza 2 Motorsport Video games. I was also involved in Sport Compact drag racing with Team Mopar and was the GM Performance recommended street car tuner for the Ecotec engines in the GM build book and my intercoolers have been raced at 40+psi of boost!