FMIC installed and boosting Strong! (pics!)

After 13 Hours of pain and agony I finally got my Front mount set up on my car, and boosting strong! for those of you who dont know, i purchased the core off Ebay for a little over 150 shipped and it is 30"x12"x3" with 3" outlets on both sides.
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then i went a purchased 4 "U" pipes (2.5" with 4" Radius) from summit racing for some odd $70.
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After that i went back to the good old Ebay for some sylicone... i found a 2' long piece for about $20 so i picked that up as well as some reducers from the same ebay store (Sylicone intakes) <*highly suggested!!!* once all that arrived... it was time to get serious... i took a trip to Home-Depo and bought what I call a Galvanized steel Band (like Half an Angle-Iron) and some bolts... and the rest is history.
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with the DSM up on stilts it was time to get working...
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with the front bumper off i could already see the difference after holding the core up to the front bumper and i decided exactly where i wanted it.
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now how the intercooler is mounted:
I took the steel Band and bolted it to where i thought a good mounting place would be.... which i found to be just next to the Headlight as you can see from the picture... after a little Geometric thinking, I rigured that i needed two 45 degree Bends to make the core sit right where i wanted it. i took the Steel band and used the edge of the Table and an eyeball to get about a 45 degree angle. i did this for both brackets and you end up with something that looks like this.
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thats not a picture of mine, but its exactly the same.
After the core was put up on the car and we started to fit the pipse, we noticed that the splash gaurds where going to need to be trimed a little.
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*that big yellow box off the the right of the car in the pic is what we used to hold the core up while making the brackets. we put it ontop a few bricks and a 2x4*
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now things really started to pick up. all the pipes where installed and we had already trimmed the bumper support brace for the core. (this intercooler set up is with the stock T25 turbo, what i did was cut the stock soft pipe off so it made a L and just added the metel pipe to the end of that id that makes any sence...)

after intence trimming and trritation, it was all worth it for this!!!
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OH YEAH!!!

If you have any questions about anything, i can fill you in, and i have more pics.

Special thanks to Ben, and Mac!!! Ben for all the Help with the install and Mac for the beads on the ends of the Pipes! I couldnt have done it with out you guys!

Damn sweet looking man! When I get a TSi one of these days, Im actually looking forward to doing that. Looks like so much fun IMO. Hard work though, but well worth it. Nice job.

Dude, looks fucking sick, (Excuse my french). Imma abou to turbo my eclipse, just so I can have the fmic (not really).

Looks sweet...also because of your fmic, are you now able to boost higher?

yeah, if you had DSM Link... like me... because its not really about the boost pressure, its about knock... but with the T25 (stock turbo) i dont think i'm going to go much higher then 15 PSI.

Freakin' beastly! Do you have any engine bay pics of the short route piping?

Looks good, hopefully i'll be doin the same thing soon.

Turned out awesome! Good job man.

Sweet dude, a write up on DIY FMIC piping would be sweet.

Looks good man!

Its almost as if the 2Gb bumper was made for an FMIC! Looks great man, good job!

yeah, i could get some engine bay pics once i get home. i'm in class right now.

yeah, i could get some engine bay pics once i get home. i'm in class right now.


Well shouldn't you be doing class work or something? :p

hehe

what are you talking about? :screwy:

AF is all that matters... :iceslolan

let me know how that e-bay core works because I was looking at one to. Also I would like to see how you have your pipes routed because I've been trying to figure out the best way

Alright clipsekid99, Thor06 and pr_ricer this is all i could get right now, because its finalls week and i need to study so i dont have time to jack the car up. but i got a pretty sweet set up with the stock Turbo, i cut the rubber pipe off just after the first bend and connected the hard intercooler pipe to that. I'll have to get a pic some time later. but in the mean time...
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In that 2nd pic you can kinda see whats going on with the stock turbo pipe... its just that elbow, then the hard pipe... i bought a 2.5' PVC spacer and greased it up...shoved it into the stock Rubber hose so it would have something to clamp to...

all that hard work and thats all i get? 10 people reply!!! come on!!!

:feedback:

Maybe you should try harder next time.

so do you have the turbo outlet coming in the drivers side of the intercooler in kind of like a S shaped pipe and then the passneger side is basically feeding right up into the throttle body?

yeah, kinda... i'll get more pics tomorrow for ya! it comes out of the turbo off the stock elbow to the passanger side, and the stock rubber hose takes it from there to going stright down, there it hits the metel pipes that finish the turn around back to the driver side, where it turns around again to the passanger side and directly into the intercooler, then throught the core and yet another "U turn" back towards the driver side, then up to the throttle body. WOW! thats confusing... i'll definatly get a pic up for you soon.

Nice..

I wana see Before and After dsmlink logs. post them up.

here are the pics of the under side of the car that i promised...
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You can see what i was talking about with cutting the stock rubber hose to make the elbow in the first pic.

thats the same way that I wanted to route mine. Looks good and like I said let me know how that e-bay core works cause I'm looking at one to

:1:, I would definately be interested in how it holds up and how well it works.

holds good! No leaks, the core is perfect... the fins bend pretty easy... i already have a few bent... but performance wise, its way PAST expected....

thats what Ill be doing this spring! 14b and a FMIC! woo hoo!

thats what Ill be doing this spring! 14b and a FMIC! woo hoo!

Me too(FMIC)! I plan to gather my parts soon and install in May'ish after my spring semester at school, this way I have time to do it and wont have to rush.

Did you buy those brackets like that or did you make them???? Also what was the ebay user's name/company you bought the core off of (If you didnt mention it...sry if you did)???? Are you using the stock fans??

Looking for a FMIC from ebay as well might have questions later...i'll keep u posted

reddogmotorsports Was the Guys Name. and RED DOG MOTORSPORTS Is the ebay store. I LOVE my new platinum grill!!!!!!!

reddogmotorsports Was the Guys Name. and RED DOG MOTORSPORTS Is the ebay store. I LOVE my new platinum grill!!!!!!!

Thanks. Are you using the stock fans? Did you have to make those brackets or?

Made the brackets, stock fans. car still runs at normal operating temp.... sometimes even a little cooler...

I never realised that was a tube/tin Intercooler.

explane?

What is that open tube that is kinda sticking up from your intake, it's right behind the mass sensor.

What is that open tube that is kinda sticking up from your intake, it's right behind the mass sensor.
i believe that is a intake tube for a stock bov . that is where the dump hose on the bov is supposed to be hooked up to the intake tube.is it ok to run it like that? just wondering cuz i dont know.

This thread is pretty old man

yeah... ClipseKid gave it to you because you wanted to do a FMIC short route pipe set up... just for reference, he gave you this... lol you wheren't ment to post in it...

I stated that because showstopperz responded to a question from the begining to decemberm not to randomly state that fact :lol:

No, it's generally not okay to dump the bov purge to atmosphere unless your running a Vein Pressure Converter (VPC) to replace your Mass Airflow Sensor (MAS) with a Manifold Absolute Pressure (MAP) setup. You will run very rich under certain conditions and the motor could stall or run poorly.

And I think the IC is a bar and plate not a tube and fin. That's what it looks like at least.

it is bar and plate, and i'm not dumping my BOV... i just hadn't put the dump tube back on in the pics yet. just FYI