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good fmic kit

Post by turbo turtle21 »

ok ive recently just bought an tdo4 turbo and i want to put a fmic on when i put the turbo on could anyone tell me a good kit that gunna take the least work and cuttin and all that and i have a 91 legacy turbo by the way thanks
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Post by Legacy777 »

Anything you do is going to require a reasonable amount of modification and cutting. There's really no way around it...
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Post by ericem »

Has anyone bought a FMIC kit for a wrx or like 94 WRX????
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no 02or newer WRX kit will bolt up, I've bought 2 ebay generic pipe kits and a CXracing intercooler and still had to revise my setup 3 times and have 3 pipes welded for the set up i have now, and its still tight at the RH cyl. head.
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the set up for the compressor outlet is a combination of high temp nylon fittings ment for marine aplication and flexible marine exhaust tubing. been using it for close to 10,000 miles of mostly freeway no problems but cheep, i should have known better than to use, tube connectors
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Post by RCKSTR »

I'm thinking of picking up one of the "JDM" fmic kits off from ebay. once I do so I'll post up how the fitment is.
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Post by cj91legss »

i picked up a greddy kit from a forum member a year and a half ago and it fits ok... it's for a wrx and i also had to extend some piping by my driver's side head.
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Post by impreza_GC8 »

subytech wrote:Image
So is this a combination of a few kits plus custom work? Or is there a kit that is available that is close to this? I like the setup of the piping on this one.
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Post by cj91legss »

That setup in the pic above seems more "reliable" to me, I had a theory (Not proven) that the less restrictions for air flow, the better.....


Here's mine before my TD04 Install, it flows towards the passanger side first... I am eventually going to fix it some how.

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Post by subytech »

impreza_GC8 wrote:
subytech wrote:Image
So is this a combination of a few kits plus custom work? Or is there a kit that is available that is close to this? I like the setup of the piping on this one.
A few kits that looked like they had the bends I wanted not sure if they were subaru specific i just looked at the pics and found the bends that looked good. I also had some custom welding done up near the throttle body and the turbo to get the bends just right, I like straight running pipes, not akward looking connections and kinked hoses, but then I'm OCD so they tell me :-D
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Post by Apex3 »

I've actually heard the ebay FMICs are pretty decent, it's just the fittings and junk that come with them that are crap.
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Post by brweber352 »

My FMIC is at the bottom of this link with a slight description http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic. ... art=25[url]

I would like shorter piping and a more direct route but this was a fairly easy install(if there is such a thing as a easy FMIC install). As far as lag goes, not really noticeable. My TD05 hits 0psi at about 2600 -2700rpm and 16psi at like 3300rpm with 2.5'' exhaust. With my 3'' cutout open, What lag? 0psi seems to be at like 2400-2500rpm and 16psi seems about 3100rpm, this is just me glancing back and forth between the gauges so I need to datalog this to be more accurate.[/url]
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