pitch black
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New AZGN large neck intercooler mod
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New ArizonaGn Large Neck Intercooler
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Is that the "nick neck" ? Seen a few at nick micale's house. Www.arizonagn.com
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pitch black
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Yep
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Wow, NICE!!!
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A couple of my customers with stock GN's want me to upgrade their card for more street performance to keep up with some of the newer performance cars and keep it rather stock looking and drivable without "hurting" their budget too bad!
The 2 significant upgrades from stock is more air into the engine, and less restriction out for the exhaust.
So a less restrictive intercooler and a 3" downpipe are basic performance upgrades, but current intercooler choices are VERY expensive.
I called Kenny D. about purchasing his intercooler castings, but they are no longer being produced.
We then decided to do our own version of a complete new neck as we wanted it to be less restrictive than with the old version of welding on a casting.
The entire neck was removed and we fabricated a new neck with a cast outlet for less restriction.
These are more expensive to build over just welding on a neck, but even at $275 plus core exchange, and a transition hose, it is a worthwhile basic upgrade.
Oh, I left the one pictured un-painted to make the mods and construction more visible.
When Boost231 walked through my garage the other day he named it the "nick neck" intercooler!
The 2 significant upgrades from stock is more air into the engine, and less restriction out for the exhaust.
So a less restrictive intercooler and a 3" downpipe are basic performance upgrades, but current intercooler choices are VERY expensive.
I called Kenny D. about purchasing his intercooler castings, but they are no longer being produced.
We then decided to do our own version of a complete new neck as we wanted it to be less restrictive than with the old version of welding on a casting.
The entire neck was removed and we fabricated a new neck with a cast outlet for less restriction.
These are more expensive to build over just welding on a neck, but even at $275 plus core exchange, and a transition hose, it is a worthwhile basic upgrade.
Oh, I left the one pictured un-painted to make the mods and construction more visible.
When Boost231 walked through my garage the other day he named it the "nick neck" intercooler!
pitch black
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How much of an improvement over a duttneck? Convince me I'm interested
We are currently replacing the old dutt neck on the TTA with the new one. I will post updates soon.
New AZGN large neck intercooler mod
Ever since seeing the Kenny D. neck for less restriction years ago. The question that i have had is if the inlet is a restriction than why wouldn't the outlet be a restriction also? Just curious as to why it would't be better to have both the inlet and outlet be less restrictive than the factory made them. Kind of like looking at down pipes and exhaust systems and Air inlet pipes they are made the same size on both ends.
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Did you guys determine how this stacks up to the Dutt neck?
Are these available now?
Are these available now?
pitch black
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The fit was better than the Dutt neck we had on hand (not produced by AZGN). It actually did seem to spool a little better but I have no hard data on that.
Contact nick, they are available. Www.arizonagn.com for his number
