natas

Ok guys,

Yes I can go out and buy a kit for this....but man I cannot see how paying over $1000 for a kit is worth it. Hell I got my TII for $1000.



So one of my future upgrades is going to be a Turbo Upgrade (Stage 3 or 4 by Majestic). And of course from what I understand the TMIC will not be good enough for this.



Has anyone in here done a DIY FMIC? If you have please post how you did this and the parts you used. Did you take a intercooler from another car and put it on, or make the intercooler?



Anyway I think if someone in here can explain this then a ton of people will be interested....and hopefully more people will do it and make a kind of how-to for it and possible a best practice on DIY FMIC

natas

ok guys just to get everyone started check this out:



http://www.roadraceengineering.com/intercoolers.htm

1Revvin7

Alot of ppl us intercoolers form NPR, Starions, thats what im trying to find.

natas

Really,

Are there any writeups on how to do this? I'm sure we could find some of these at a junkyard

vosko

i'm running a NPR fmic. its not too hard nor too easy to install and you need custom intercooler piping which is annoying. all in all you probably save maybe $300 over getting a complete kit

ILUVMY88CABRIO

I just got my Starion IC a few days ago. I am not looking forward to putting this bitch in, and doing all the plumbing. Vosko, have you done the plumbing for your NPR IC yet? Right now I'm in my IC set up a little over $375 ($185 for the IC, and $190 for the BOV). HKS sells all the pipes that you need for the install.

UniqueTII

That's a really nice IC...how much is the piping?

1Revvin7

yea how much is the piping?

13BAce

You can just use only old pipes. The HKS pipes are just cast aluminum. So you can probably get the same types of pipes cheaper.

UniqueTII

There's a custom bending place in Des Moines that I need to pay a visit to...maybe I could get a couple sets of piping and ICs and sell them.