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[hawks_123]

I got my scarles piping a couple of days ago. Seems like pretty good quality to me, for the price anyway. Might be fitting it this Sunday, see how it goes, i'll get plenty of pics while were doing it.

[Mosti]

Are you going to try and keep the foggies when fitting it? If so, I'd love to know how you go. I want the kit but i'll wait and see how you go first haha.

[Delete This Account]

Why arnt you guys happy with the TMIC, is it really that bad? It seems like a lot of effort, custom work and extra weight for not that much gain...

[Jeff]

Why arnt you guys happy with the TMIC, is it really that bad? It seems like a lot of effort, custom work and extra weight for not that much gain...

Short answer.......... YES

[Richo]

Long answer yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess

[hawks_123]

Are you going to try and keep the foggies when fitting it?
If so, I'd love to know how you go.
I want the kit but i'll wait and see how you go first haha.

I'll see if it can be changed at all, if i have to lose them i'll fill the holes with some decent 100w driving lights, at least
then they'll be usefull.

Why arnt you guys happy with the TMIC, is it really that bad? It seems like a lot of effort, custom work and extra weight for not that much gain...

Well think of it this way, the TMIC is supposed to cool the air, but it's not that effective when it heats up sitting on top of a motor and
2 turbos. The FMIC is away from all that heat so therefore much more effective.

But there is also the cool sound that comes out of a FMIC.

[Delete This Account]

You have a point but there are other mods you can do with more power increase without going to all the trouble of molestering your front bar and having to move your overflow bottle haha

[Mosti]

You have a point but there are other mods you can do with more power increase without going to all the trouble of molestering your front bar and having to move your overflow bottle haha

A FMIC/Larger TMIC is probably the second best engine mod for the B4, after a decent tune.

Hawks, I'm interested to see how you go. Do you have a CAI?

[hawks_123]

I had a CAI in the guard.................but since my mate turbo'd his skyrine, i moved mine into the engine bay........cos it makes more noise It will definetly be sheilded, it would kill the engine if it was there in summer.

[mattbg5]

Anyone have suggestions on places/sites which sell intercoolers? I'm after a 600x250 or smaller core. I've checked PWR, JustJap and a few others but can't source one with a similar dimension.

www.driftbitz.com have a decent range of diff sized intercoolers

[kr0nic]

Why arnt you guys happy with the TMIC, is it really that bad? It seems like a lot of effort, custom work and extra weight for not that much gain...

Biggest thing iv found since switching to FMIC is theres no loss of power after a hard driving session, back with the top mount if i went for a run against my mates for 10-15 minutes the car would start to lose ALOT of power when heatsoak started kicking in, now i can drive the car hard for as long as i like without suffering any power loss.

[B4Cruiser]

my FMIC is in and can concur with kronic. Theory of additional lag etc due to the FMIC i have yet to experience. Drives harder with a retune. Altho my main reason for going FMIC wasn't to gain massive power increase but to reduce detonation. Just need to work around the piping and get my CAI back in.

[hawks_123]

Yeah same here, with the standard tune there is not a heap more power, put there is no power drop from heat soak. My main reason for doing it was to reduce detonation during summer. And hopefully get rid of it in stop start traffic when it around 25 degrees. I'm also hoping it will improve drivability on warmer days.

[tinhow]

You guys should be getting some more power out of the FMIC kit. Doesnt sound like y'all got retuned yet. You should be able to get 3 degrees more in timing.

[hawks_123]

Na mines not tuned, of course you can always give me a donation of $1k towards it

[B4Cruiser]

You guys should be getting some more power out of the FMIC kit. Doesnt sound like y'all got retuned yet. You should be able to get 3 degrees more in timing.

I did get more power and up to 5 degrees of timing. Just saying that power wasn't my only goal to going FMIC.

[kr0nic]

I would say i definitely have a bit more power with the FMIC according to my butt dyno. And a very sexy sound of the turbos spooling there ass off at high rpm Tax check came today so ill be arranging a ECUTEK Custom tune ASAP ............... if it turns out to be a waste of $1700 i will kamikaze the car into MRT headquarters!!!

[tinhow]

I did get more power and up to 5 degrees of timing. Just saying that power wasn't my only goal to going FMIC.

Nice! How much horsepower would you say you got out of the FMIC? The car supposed to sound sweet.

[B4Cruiser]

Nice! How much horsepower would you say you got out of the FMIC? The car supposed to sound sweet.

Dunno mate. Don't have dyno sheet with me. But car definately drives better with the retune. My prev tune was shyte. As for sound, it had a massive flutter when the bov was off, but now i've got the std bov back on and has the usual whistle.

[hawks_123]

Hey B4cruiser, post up some pics of your setup. And update your avatar