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Originally Posted by TTurboBullett
Mike,
Have you seen the latest version of the Helix (with the rounded face and charge tube bars) side by side the ER? We have an extremely tedious QC process before we ship and with several hundred fmics in circulation you would be hard pressed to find ANY negative posts on our product, this can't be said about many of our competitors products and a quick search on this forum and 1 addicts will show this... what actually passes QC other places would be sold as blemished cooler(for a discount) OR be thrown in a trash heap at Helix 
As far as our claim of 20+ HP on a tuned car, unlike other manufacturers we don't quote or post our in house testing rather we use INDEPENDANT data ie ait data, dyno data that our customers post on the forums. So it's not a claim it's fact, the Helix FMIC makes that much power because it keeps AIT so low that the tuning maximizes the cold AIT mapping ie it maximizes timing and boost. I will try and find one of our customers(rnmevo)dyno data that shows these gains. We do things differently than other companies as we rely on our customer data, dont make outlandish claims, don't do sales pitches and don't back down if someone wants to do a head to head test as we know our product works exactly as we state! this may be the reason we are still here supporting the community after all these years when others have disappeared and/or no longer sell their product.
Since you have access to many aftermarket FMIC's would you be willing to put them up in an INDEPENDANT shootout? As has been said previously we will provide the shop, the test equipment and the dyno and will instruct the tester how to use them but will not run the tests so no one can cry foul. We want this information out there to end discussions like this once and for all.
Some Helix FMIC facts:
-Best AIT control of any bolt on FMIC
-has been pushed to 640whp, so no power ceiling or need to change if going BIG turbo.
-86% efficiency in a 2-3-4 gear run
-20+HP increase through much of the rpm range on a tuned car
-Highest thermal mass of any bolt on FMIC
-an exposed ambient face 70% larger than stock height but thicker intercoolers
-13 charge rows vs 7-10 on stock height intercoolers
-used and tested on cars that Autocross, race in road course and cannonball run style endurance events
-the only manufacturer willing to submit to an INDEPENDANT FMIC SHOOTOUT
Lastly while there may be no bad choice in aftermarket FMICs when compared to stock there is a BEST choice... |
You're marketing very aggressively
Showing dyno gains for an FMIC isn't really where the benefit is, IMO. Perhaps a better test would be to do 3-5 laps on a road circuit and look at IATs. (Saying that there is probably too much variables to account for any differences)
Contact some other manufacturer's and see if they want to do something, but a dyno glory run test doesn't prove much in terms of FMIC performance... (My opinion)
Mike