CVF Titan Intercooler: Installation and Review

[Wojciech Gierczynski]

Yes I said I understood your point a few posts ago. Here’s my issue:

The original post on this thread said he achieved a 35° - 39° improvement over stock which is damn close to the marketing pitch and claims from CVF. You said you read somewhere else that on another truck there was only a 20° improvement over stock.

According to these two separate instances there is a 50% chance it’s just marketing hype and BS but there is also a 50% chance that it isn’t. You’ve been so adamant about proving CVF wrong over and over and the only thing you keep referencing is one YouTube video and you are completely negating the original post, neither of which involve you or your own personal experiences. Furthermore, there have plenty of people on here running stage 2 tunes, obviously creating more boost and with that more heat, and have absolutely zero issues with the CVF intercooler.

It may just be me but I think you are making all of these accusations without anything to back it up aside from one other person’s results that you don’t even know. It would be no different than me claiming how great the CVF intercooler is and how everyone should buy one yet it’s still sitting in my garage uninstalled.


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Ok original post states that stock intercooler ran from 111°F up to 151°F. Then it states that CVF Intercooler ran from 122°F to 127°F in the same run. Where do you get 39°F difference?
39°F difference would be if CVF Intercooler would end its WOT at 112°F. I understand he takes the number of how many degrees stock intercooler went up which was 40°F and then he looks at how much temperature went up on CVF intercooler which was only 5°F so that gave him 35°F difference between the two. He doesnt take into account that CVF Intercooler started 11°F hotter then stock (which many posted that it does run hotter while driving normally and I can also state this with my Mishimoto one). So in reality the difference in temps between two at the end of the run was 24°F. The difference in how much temperature went up on Stock Intercooler vs CVF was 35°F I TOTALLY AGREE to this. I just dont agree with 40°F difference in temps from beginning to end of the run.

 

[19RaptorPB]

Ok original post states that stock intercooler ran from 111°F up to 151°F. Then it states that CVF Intercooler ran from 122°F to 127°F in the same run. Where do you get 39°F difference?
39°F difference would be if CVF Intercooler would end its WOT at 112°F. I understand he takes the number of how many degrees stock intercooler went up which was 40°F and then he looks at how much temperature went up on CVF intercooler which was only 5°F so that gave him 35°F difference between the two. He doesnt take into account that CVF Intercooler started 11°F hotter then stock (which many posted that it does run hotter while driving normally and I can also state this with my Mishimoto one). So in reality the difference in temps between two at the end of the run was 24°F. The difference in how much temperature went up on Stock Intercooler vs CVF was 35°F I TOTALLY AGREE to this. I just dont agree with 40°F difference in temps from beginning to end of the run.

IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT THE BEGINNING TEMPERATURE WAS! The fact that it only went up 5° is what matters. The End.


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[element217]

In my opinion the better question in all of this- how do the reduced temps equate to increased speed/performance? Reduced temps don’t mean a whole lot to me unless you can quantify the increased performance.

Colder/denser air would also allow the turbo/s to spool faster. One of the reasons why when running nitrous on a turbo charged car it was worth having a purge line over the intercooler - help give it an immediate cooler temp to pull from.

 

[lateralis]

Sooooo.... who has the CVF intercooler in stock? I want one....

 

[19RaptorPB]

Sooooo.... who has the CVF intercooler in stock? I want one....

Nobody... I got the last one a few weeks ago. They are supposed to be shipping again in a few weeks I think.


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[RRick]

CVF I installed a few months ago works great. Goose stage II is what I run. The intercooler is very beefy compared to stock. This week with triple degree temps I will take any help I can get to keep the air temp going into the engine down, and the price was very right.

 

[bwdilli]

Just got time to install mine today. Been sitting on the garage bench for about 2 weeks. Overall the install wasn't too bad. Worst part was lining everything up and getting the screws started on the bracket.

Stepped the tune up to a Cobb Stage 2 93 octane. We'll see how it does. These hot Texas summers are brutal.

 

[dsoren10]

I have a 2019 GEN2 and have been looking into performance upgrades for my truck. I really like the Cobb Stage 2 kit but don't like the idea of cutting up my grill and installing the intercooler in front of the stock radiator or air conditioning condenser, as this would add heat load in front of those items. I really like the idea of keeping the intercooler in the stock location. My main question is whether an aftermarket intercooler (CVF, Garret, Whipple, etc.) can keep up with the heat load from the Stage 2 tune since all of those intercoolers are smaller than the Cobb IC.

 

[Slow6]

I have a 2019 GEN2 and have been looking into performance upgrades for my truck. I really like the Cobb Stage 2 kit but don't like the idea of cutting up my grill and installing the intercooler in front of the stock radiator or air conditioning condenser, as this would add heat load in front of those items. I really like the idea of keeping the intercooler in the stock location. My main question is whether an aftermarket intercooler (CVF, Garret, Whipple, etc.) can keep up with the heat load from the Stage 2 tune since all of those intercoolers are smaller than the Cobb IC.

Where are you located and what are you using the truck for will give people enough information to give a few recommendations.


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[dsoren10]

I'm in Colorado. As much as I'd like to say I'd go offroad quite a bit the reality is the truck won't be rallying much! It will mainly be used around the City. I do tow toys (motorcycles, boats, snowmobiles, etc.) quite a bit but aside from that it will mostly be city/highway driving.