of cutting of the bar. We did not use the cooler that is in there kit, just the piping. Although because the cooler was not the exact size that they designed the kit with we needed to do some modding on the cold side of cooler.
I suggest that anyone who wants to do this should not buy the cooler they supply as i'm sure there would be no chance of keeping the crash bar, just make sure the widths are the same as there. As you can see it is still possible to keep the crash bar if you get a shorter cooler.
Engine Bay with the Interwarmer removed
First section of the piping as it comes off the two turbos
Cooler with mounts bolted onto the top.
Half mutilated crash bar, because it's a short cooler, only the bottom of the bar had to be cut out.
Atleast it doesn't look defectable.
This is the back of the front bar, even after this there was heaps more to cut out. There is no chance at all
that the driving lights could be kept.
Cooler mounted to the underside of crash bar.
Pod mounted in guard alongside hot pipe onto cooler, freed up room in the engine bay for coolant overflow
Overlow bottle in place of stock air box. Pod and hot pipe go into each hole in the guard.
Hot and cold pipes connected to cooler
This is what happens when you get the wrong size cooler. Quick trip to bursons plumbing section.
Cold pipe coming up infront of Cam belt cover, taking the place of the coolant bottle.
Temporary Blow off valve (now replaced)
All Done up
The finished product.
I've noticed no real difference in lag or VOD. A maybe a tad more power, could be a placebo effect though.
The biggest difference is heat soak, no power drop even after a lot of boosting. Summer will be the real test though.
If you do it make sure all clamps are done up really tight, it's not good fun playing mechanics on the side of the road.
and it begins....
how much did pay for the fmic, as im doin a b4 conversion to my car and want to have a fmic instead of a tmic any info you could give me would be great thanks