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FMIC - Can it look nice?

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:36 pm
by turboleg
So you guys are probably going to kill me for asking this!

The car 91 L with EJ22T (stock for now)

So basically I want my "sleeper" look to stick around. Therefore I would like to avoid the TMIC (got the L hood still). Is there a good location to put an FMIC so that I wouldnt have to cut up my front bumper (or atleast not cut it enough to hurt the appearance)? If so what size IC would you guys suggest to try (any specific manufacturer)? One other thing, (not sure if it makes that big of a difference) my future goal...after time and money allows, is to reach 250-300 whp. If there is an IC that can support all that...I'm interested.

Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:12 pm
by BAC5.2
I posted some pictures of my setup on my old car.

I painted the intercooler black and barely touched the face of the bumper. It looked great. From 10 feet away, you'd never know there was a front mount intercooler.

I used a Turbo XS kit that I custom fabbed to work.

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:19 am
by 93forestpearl
mine's a little radical, but sleeper nonetheless. I wanted to save the bumper beam and have nice airflow, at the same time stay sleeper.

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u149 ... inebay.jpg

Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:27 am
by dzx

Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:51 pm
by IronMonkeyL255
93forestpearl wrote:mine's a little radical, but sleeper nonetheless. I wanted to save the bumper beam and have nice airflow, at the same time stay sleeper.

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u149 ... inebay.jpg

Damn that looks nice.

Using hood pins?

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:13 am
by 93forestpearl
IronMonkeyL255 wrote:
93forestpearl wrote:mine's a little radical, but sleeper nonetheless. I wanted to save the bumper beam and have nice airflow, at the same time stay sleeper.

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u149 ... inebay.jpg

Damn that looks nice.

Using hood pins?

Ya. That part kinda sux. When it gets warm out I'm gonna try to rig up some sort of latch that I can turn from below to secure the hood. I've gotten more attention from the pins than anything else.

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:12 am
by n2x4
BAC5.2 wrote:I posted some pictures of my setup on my old car.

I painted the intercooler black and barely touched the face of the bumper. It looked great. From 10 feet away, you'd never know there was a front mount intercooler.

I used a Turbo XS kit that I custom fabbed to work.
Phil, do you have any of those pics still?

Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:05 pm
by justin the subie
93forestpearl wrote:mine's a little radical, but sleeper nonetheless. I wanted to save the bumper beam and have nice airflow, at the same time stay sleeper.

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u149 ... inebay.jpg
nice job!! :smt041 where did your battery go??

Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:38 am
by 93forestpearl

Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:57 am
by justin the subie
bitchen!!! :twisted: