2015 Mustang 2.3L EcoBoost Full-Race Intercooler Installed!

The biggest enemy of your 2015 EcoBoost Mustang is heat soak, and it's very tough to push the factory turbo system components way past their capabilities to adequately cool things down and preserve top-end horsepower. We found that out the hard way on our very own 2015 Mustang EcoBoost Project Car, and we've been searching for ways to reduce heat soak and win back some of that high-rpm bite. A solution fell into our lap courtesy of our cross-town neighbors over at Full-Race Motorsports and their 2015 Mustang EcoBoost Full-Race Intercooler Upgrade. The intercooler kit includes a much larger intercooler and some tubing to connect it all up to your factory hot-side and cold-side tubing. While you do lose your grille shutters in the process, you gain power and torque, making it more than a fair trade. Check out our images below and stay tuned for an install video and dyno run!

As you can see from the comparison images above, the factory intercooler is incredibly tiny with plastic end tanks, which explains why it's extremely easy to heat-soak the car. For our dyno run with the Full-Race intercooler installed, our car put down about 345lb-ft of torque and 265 horsepower at the rear wheels. While our torque was lower than our last run, it was a much hotter day yesterday, with temperatures well into the 80s. Despite the heat, our peak horsepower numbers did improve, and 265 wheel horsepower translates to roughly 311 horsepower at the crankshaft, putting us above the factory peak numbers for the first time since we tuned it.

So, the intercooler performed admirably, but our battle against heat-soak is going to continue.