going to be doing a SOHC turbo setup soon and need to know what size FMIC to use, i want to fill up the spot where the front grill is but dont want to do any cutting or anything thing to my car

here is a pic of what the front of my car looks like. so where can i get an FMIC and where to buy it from, i'm trying to keep the price down too. Thanks to any one who can help

 

Pricewise? Check out Johnnyracecar.com, lots of size options, decent efficiency, and fairly cheap

 

This size FMIC

 

"nice" pic, but read his post.

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I'll tell you right now, you're going to probably be hard up to find an intercooler to stuff behind your bumper where you don't have to cut the bumper skin any. You might get a better response to this question in the FI forum.

I bought my intercooler from the classifieds section here on HT for $240...it's a 20x8x2.5 core.

I should have waited and not cut out my fog light holes...I thought I would need to but ended up not needing to!


Modified by DaX at 10:07 PM 1/23/2005

 

What DaX said.
I, too, wanted to go with a FMIC as part of my turbo project.
I tried to figure out how to put one in my 90 crx without cutting any metal, but couldn't figure out any easy routes that didn't sacrifice good charge pipe geometry.

I talked with like 5-6 shops and they all said it's very very hard to do this on a crx.
So I took it to a local shop that cut some metal, but in the end I was happy - they did a great job (SpoolinPerformance in SJ)


Edit - here's a pic of my FMIC

 

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wtf, thats an h22!

 

i had to cut the grill out of the bumper cover for my fmic, but other than that everything was fine, my intercooler has back door endtanks so i didnt have to cut the fog light covers or anything,

heres a pic,

 

thanks guys, Yall have been good help Thanks!!!

 

I snuck a 20x8 behind my stock bumper with just minor cutting.

 

My FMIC is 32x5, and i had to cut the plastic out on the bumper and i had to cut into the bumper support to make it fit.. its a Tyrus fmic.

 

again its been sed, i have a jrc,made by tyrus there really cheap,check out ebay they usually go fo $90-140.

 

I havent seen an intercooler that you didnt need to cut the bumper ever.. Maybe not the front of the bumper but your going to need to trim some behind it..

 

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Oh MAN, does that look C-L-E-A-N !
I'm jealous

 

the only way i could see doing it is maybe putting a thin cored fmic where the a/c condenser rad is at and moving the radiator back some.. but its gonna be a trick. my fmic is pretty small depth and height wise and i had to cut quite a bit

 

You need to get a good sized one like mine. So when people look back they see the FMIC grilling at them. I am ghetto, I know.

 

lol thats nice

 

Look at my avatar.. Thats kinda scary to see comming up in your rearview..

 

looks bad as **** ...

 

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hahaha, that's badass!

 

That reminds me of the Terminator when he is just a robot with no flesh. I dont know why.

 

here is my fmic on my crx. its PERFECT size. i put my sir bumper over it and it fit perfect! it's a 27"x 6.5"x 3".

 

Looks nice

 

That looks VERY nice, i wish my turbo had some normal exit direction so i could have some something like that