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  1. 03-06-2014 08:32 PM #1
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    These Intercooler Shrouds seem very restrictive...

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  2. 03-06-2014 08:38 PM #2
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    stock shrouds with aftermarket intercoolers? Brilliant!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Meow View Post
    stock shrouds with aftermarket intercoolers? Brilliant!
    haha, that's what I thought as well.
    PO was not very clever apparently. Car is going back together now, and I noticed it looked like this.

    Do they make aftermarket shrouds for these? Should I go shroud-less?
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    Lose them
    Think flyboy had some numbers showing they didnt really do anything anyway.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zillarob View Post
    Lose them
    Think flyboy had some numbers showing they didnt really do anything anyway.
    Ha, you just beat me to it.
    http://www.myaudis4.com/more-shroud-testing/

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    Shrouds are virtually for aesthetics only.

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    lose them. weight reduction….
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    I would imagine shrouds would help on a track car that is going hard for 10+ minutes at a time. But on a street car, the carbon fiber ones look nice ;)
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    lol. That's amazing.

    I think unless you're successfully changing the pressure differential on the front vs the back of the intercooler (would need a pretty damn thorough shroud job to create more vacuum behind the coolers, although i think the rs4 bumper is designed in part to do this), you're not doing anything.
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    I think the er's are so damn big there's pretty much no room for the air to flow around them so the shrouds are pointless. On smaller smics like rs4s or stock, they might help.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tumbler510 View Post
    haha, that's what I thought as well.
    PO was not very clever apparently. Car is going back together now, and I noticed it looked like this.

    Do they make aftermarket shrouds for these? Should I go shroud-less?
    Get the ER carbon shrouds
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    Quote Originally Posted by infinkc View Post
    Get the ER carbon shrouds
    After reading the input around here, and the above mentioned test, I am going shroudless.
    And I am not paying $200 for CF shrouds. Doesn't seem like a worthwhile investment for a DD.
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    make new ones out of cardboard :)
    the B5 S4 is like the mafia... there is only one way out!
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