The reducer is only necessary if you're still running either a std turbo or a turbo with a 50mm outlet.

Think he means a reducer on the end of the intercooler itself John

Right, BALLS ACHE...

Started at 10am and finished about 45 mins ago as I was running out of light.
The Intercooler is in place after so much faffing about, I've tried to mount it in such a way that the pipework wont sit lower than the bumper (I can only just get up my driveway and its not lowered!) Sketched out a bracket design (its held on with bolts/cable ties at the moment) and going to get them made up on monday, hopefully make something to support it from beneath too.

Lots of bumper cutting, knuckle cutting, swearing and faffing but its alright so far.

Fingers crossed that the pipework goes on just as smoothly (who am I kidding!!!)

(What arrived)
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.jennings4/coupe/fmic1.jpg

(getting there)
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.jennings4/coupe/fmic2.jpg

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.jennings4/coupe/fmic3.jpg

Dan

Looks good so far Dan, would be interesting to see your brackets?
The pipework shouldn't be too bad

I'll take a pic once they are made making it so that I can adjust the height to get it just right

Right, after a week of driving round without the sodding thing plumbed in.. its on

Scared myself silly when one of the pipes decided to blow off on the Main DC going towards Peterborough Town Centre :
I've used hardly any pipework so have a lot left, will see if anyone wants any on here before flogging them on ebay

Will post up pictures as soon as I take them, doesn't sit any lower, so I'm chuffed I can still get up my driveway. Nor did I have to cut the towing eye.

Dan

few pics:

The bracket:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.jennings4/coupe/fmic4.jpg

Before the bumper went back on:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.jennings4/coupe/fmic5.jpg

All finished, just the undertray to go back on
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.jennings4/coupe/fmic6.jpg

is it worth buying?

Looks like you have done a considerably more professional job than i did!
Looks good fella well done

only had to use 1 cable tie

and its 10mm wide and holding up up the main pipe underneath going into the turbo

Matt, did you find you got a lot more induction noise (sharp spoolup/whistling noise) once you got the fmic on?
Thanks by the way

Johna, its a lot of hassle and the bumper will need to be cut considerably due to how wide it is.

Brackets gonna have to come back off soon as its hardened steel and starting to oxidise (needs painting), so I'll show how I've routed the pipework from the IC to the turbo so people get a better idea as to whats what

Dan

ok cheers.

I only noticed more noise when a boost pipe was about to pop off, must have been air whistling through a gap i guess. Sorted all that out now.

and guess what happened after I posted that...
A pipe blows off leaving me stranded on a dual carriageway

Now its just popping off as soon as I put my foot down, its the standard S pipe to the inlet system thats coming off.
The Jubilee clip is done up super tight and still it keeps popping off, any ideas how to get round it?

Dan

i ended up bending the end of the pipe out a bit all the way round, with a pair of pliers, to create a sort of lip. I also put super glue in and clamped over it and havent had any more probs *yet*

I was thinking a chemical metal bead around the end of the pipe to create a lip, what you think? or is that overkill, I've heard you can use cheap hairspray or glue to stop it from coming off?

Dan

I think a lip is definitly the way forward. im pretty sure you can get the ends of the pipes rolled for not too much cash

you can buy the tool, sure I saw it in my Frost catalogue now you mention it.

Dan

scrap that...

http://www.frost.co.uk/item_Detail.asp?p...tSubcat=Forming

Buy this bad boy: The one on the left

u have pm

Thats essentially a slightly bigger version of what I'm already using! Still not holding, really need to lip out the pipe somehow.

Dan

I had a local engineering company weld a bead around my pipes and then sand them down slightly.

I've drilled the end of the pipe and screwed in some self tappers. see what happens tonight I guess.

Dan

I'm surprised it's popping off. My FMIC pipes dont have any beading on them and mine don't pop off. You could try a mattB and use hairspray to give you the wetness to get the pipes on and once that has gone off, you get a nice sticky texture which may help it hold on.

'so I'll show how I've routed the pipework from the IC to the turbo so people get a better idea as to whats what

Dan'


Any pictures of this? also did you need to buy reducers also? are they 3" to 2.5"? and how many are needed? is one needed for the join of kit pipe to original pipe to turbo?

Thanks in advance, Rob.

thought id bump this thread to say how i fitted my turbo revs cooler.

I couldn't put my hard pipes under the rad support because my cars to low and id only have around 3 inch clearance and a speed bump would mean bye bye hard pipe!. So i took my turbo side around the front of the intercooler and took it behind where your number plate goes on the bumper as there is lots of room for the pipe, then down a tad then around to the turbo, this is abit longer route but you wont have the clearance issue. I'd recommend people buying this intercooler to do this if your car is lowered. The car comes on boost exactly the same time as standard but does feel abit more lively. All in all i think it was a good buy.

bump maybe mix this with the other revs thread to make a really good sticky