 Today's Cobb Highlight is all about the factory location intercooler for the Ford EcoBoost F-150 Trucks. For any EcoBoost engine, upgrading the intercooler is one of the first and most effective changes that you can make when tuning for better performance. Cobb has offered a really nice and very large non-factory location intercooler option for the EcoBoost F-150s in the Raptor for a while now. But variety is a spice of life, right? And in the tuning world, there's rarely a single solution that's perfect for every single build. So I'm excited to introduce you to our stock location design and cover all the major details so you can decide which option is best for your truck. Let's start with the most obvious change, size. This puppy is chunky. The total volume is 70% larger than stock with 10% more cooling surface area as well. It's a bar and plate core with our own custom cast aluminum intakes on each side. It's easy to just make something larger, so a lot of the value in our intercooler is found in the more subtle details. Designing a quality intercooler is a process of balancing air flow, cooling ability, and pressure management. The stock core actually flows quite well, but struggles with the other two. So our main focus was to maintain excellent flow while producing big improvements in temperature control and consistency, all in a design that doesn't suffer from significant pressure drop due to the increased volume. We tested several different bar and plate cores of similar sizes to find the right option as the foundation for the entire unit. But a lot of the overall value in the end product is accomplished with the end tank design, which was done from scratch in various iterations all in-house. We took advantage of our ability to perform rapid prototyping by starting with custom 3D printed versions as a proof of concept for fitment, and then even machined entire one-off billet aluminum intakes that looked awesome, but more importantly, allowed us to quickly and effectively test the design on the dyno and in the real world. These trucks are twin-turbo, so we've got matching twin inlets on the hot side, which you can see have been TIG welded on by hand, which is a huge improvement for handling higher pressure when tuning and being durable over time compared to the Krypton plastic intakes of the stock intercooler. And it's all a high-quality cast aluminum piece, including the nice Cobb logo on the side. On the opted side or cold side is another cast in tank with a nice large single outlet. This outlet is a custom billet aluminum piece that we machine in-house and hand TIG weld on. It also features a chamfer on the outlet port, which decreases turbulence to provide a smooth transition to the throttle body tube. This second smaller port here is also a custom billet piece, and it's meant for easily reinstalling the factory bipath valve. Another subtle but cool feature that we've added to this in-tank are two flat bosses for drilling and tapping. The one on the side is for adding some good old water meth injection, and the bottom one is a condensation drain port. You don't have to do either of those things, but we made it really easy if you want to. But even with all of those awesome improvements, this intercooler's best party trick is how easy it is to install. On the F-150 models, our shop guys can install one of these puppies in less than 11 minutes, and that's lying on the ground not using a lift. Plus, it doesn't require any permanent changes to the truck, no cutting or trimming, and it does that while maintaining the stock shroud on the 2.7 and the 3.5, as well as the intercooler fans on the Raptor. It might take you a little longer for the first time, and Raptors do have some extra steps, but as long as you're at least semi-component with some hand tools, this might be the easiest install you'll ever do for a part that makes such a big difference once it's done. Lastly, the Coptuning Factory Location Intercooler for the EcoBoost F-150 in Raptor is offered in a high quality silver or black powder coating, and they're available to order online right now.