A buddy bought this kit used for his Porsche 996. 5Gs. Used. It cost 10Gs new. Ten grand. $10,000.
It was intended for a manual trans car, so the kit has a front-mounted heat exchanger. It goes where the trans cooler would be on an auto trans car. He was confused how to mount the exchanger because he has an automatic, and the duct between the bumper and cooler is too long to stack the two coolers. He called the kit's manufacturer (VF Engineering), and was told that you don't use the heat exchanger in his car, you splice into the trans cooler's lines and the trans and the intercooler share the same radiator.





Honestly, that is how they do it.
Now I don't know if the trans has its own water pump, or does it work like any other trans cooler, where the trans fluid is ciculated through the cooler, but a tech at the Porsche dealer said it is trans fluid.
Can you believe that they are using trans fluid as the cooling medium for a water/air intercooler?
He sent the kit back.
I thought you guys would enjoy this.

 

damn that dont look like much for 10g

 

It's complete, including reprogrammed ECM and injectors, and looks nice in the car on their website, but yeah, they are proud of their product.

 

I think he meant from the pics doesn't look like there is much there

 

It could work....if the trans fluid stayed below 100*F.


So you're saying that its not a water/air to tranny fluid heat exchanger? Just air to tranny fluid? He could've at least tapped into the radiator for water. That would probably be a little better than tranny fluid.

 

The Porsche tech told my buddy that there is trans fluid in the cooler. My friend has no service manuals and isn't intimate enough with the car to know how the cooler works. There are two things that make me skeptical that there is trans fluid in it: 1. The fact that they share it with the intercooler, and 2. The fact that the cooler is an aluminum core with plastic tanks radiator.
There is a good chance that the trans has its own water cooling system, I don't know, but so what? The web site even brags that the intake air never goes above 140 degrees (!), and I'm sure that is with the stand alone system for the manual trans car.
I was hoping one of you oil-farming Texas boys might have bought your girlfriend one of these cars, and you knew how the trans cooler worked.

 

OK, it has antifreeze in it. From what I now understand, there is some kind of thermostat that opens the middle radiator to the engine's cooling system, and the tran's water-to-oil cooler. Until the trans starts overheating, the center radiator just sits there with no heat input or circulation. This is how they can use it for the intercooler, it would work OK until the trans got hot. Much better of a system than I first thought, but it still stinks.
I just wanted to clear the air, I know everybody was on the edge of their seats waiting for a conclusion to this thread.

 

well, only a woman, or a homosexual would own an automatic Porsche.

 

I think my buddy will be happy to find out that he is gay, so he has an excuse to leave his wife.