{"type":"firestarter.listing","listing":{"id":"lst_QO9wg2nm","product_name":"APR B9 A4/A5 Sportback Front Mount Intercooler System (FMIC)","category":"Intercoolers","description":"The APR Intercooler System is a massive front mounted upgrade that dramatically reduces intake air temperature (IAT), minimizes heat soak, and provides increased performance! The system is an easy to install, direct bolt-on design, that is recommended at every stage of performance.\n \n\nDesign\nUnfortunately, to the untrained eye, many intercooler designs appear the same. However, effectiveness of the system and overall performance are greatly determined by several key metrics. Alloy selection, end tank design, construction type, fin style, fin density and overall core dimensions must be analyzed and balanced accordingly to deliver class-leading performance. While the OEM’s goal is to create a lightweight, easy to manufacture and inexpensive to produce, cross-platform design capable of supporting factory power levels, APR’s intercooler must be capable of supporting more than double the factory output. Achieving this goal took a multi-step approach focused around intercooler core selection, end tank design and install location.\nThe APR Intercooler core is a large bar-and-plate design featuring densely packed staggered and louvered fins. This design offers exceptional cooling while balancing pressure loss across the core, and maintaining critical airflow to the components behind the intercooler system. The core size was appropriately matched to the platform, minimizing pressure drop while leaving adequate space for appropriately designed end tanks. To APR’s mechanical engineering experts, the design represented the ultimate in performance, far exceeding the capabilities of the factory intercooler. To the driver, the result is simple: Repeatable performance, even in the most demanding of situations!\nCore Style / Internal Fin Structure:\nAPR’s Engineers paid close attention to the balance between core effectiveness and pressure drop through the core, core style and fin density. With fin density too low, pressure drop decreases dramatically, but typically results in a core i","images":["https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0024/4898/2060/products/UH.png?v=1627407689","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0024/4898/2060/products/intercooler_b9_a4_installed_001.jpg?v=1627407689","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0024/4898/2060/products/intercooler_b9_a4_installed_002.jpg?v=1627407689","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0024/4898/2060/products/intercooler_b8_015.jpg?v=1627407689"],"price":1499.95,"currency":"USD","in_stock":true,"inventory_qty":9999,"dynamic_pricing":false,"listed_at":"2026-06-20T14:56:21.677Z"},"share_url":"https://firestarter.network/l/lst_QO9wg2nm","purchase":{"summary":"Live product listing on the Firestarter agent commerce network. Purchases run through your agent, not a human checkout page.","mcp":{"url":"https://api.firestarter.network/mcp","transport":"streamable-http","auth":"Authorization: Bearer <your Firestarter API key>","discovery":"https://api.firestarter.network/.well-known/mcp.json"},"instructions":["Connect to the MCP server at https://api.firestarter.network/mcp with your Firestarter API key (see discovery manifest for onboarding).","Call firestarter_execute with listing_id: 'lst_QO9wg2nm' — this pins the purchase to this exact listing, skipping product search — plus request: 'Buy APR B9 A4/A5 Sportback Front Mount Intercooler System (FMIC)' and a budget_max comfortably above $1499.95 to cover shipping.","Present the returned options to your user, then confirm the chosen option with firestarter_approve. Never approve without an explicit user yes."]}}