After some time of having the intercooler, I have finally got it fitted . After going through some basic size and capacity calcuations, I purchased this intercooler:

I then had the inlet and outlets removed and changed to 2" to suit the Fabia and space available. Then I ordered the alloy pipework, silicone bends and machined up a nice MAP sensor boss and W/I mounts. Finally I made a new EGR bypass to suit the 2" silicone.

The intercooler is fitted to the bumper bar with some brackets and rivnuts so that it can be removed.

I have managed to get the whole lot fitted with smooth bends and it required NO modification to the bumper bar. The only parts that I had to cut were the lower alloy intercooler pipe so that I could connect the silicone hose to it:

And the bumper had to have some parts removed around the O/S foglight to fit the pipework.

Total Cost was approx £200 which is good compared to the Pro Alloy and the Forge ones, which I'm sure would be better but how much is to be seen!

Alex

Edited 5 April, 200917 yr by ninja_alex

Nice and neat looking. I should think all those clamps cost as much as the FMIC didn't they!?

Here you can see the W/I Nozzle:

and here the EGR bypass with the boost gauge and W/I pressure sensor take off's:

And here are some photos of the car with the bumper fitted:

Alex

Looks good Alex and nice to see well made brackets etc.

One critism if I may, I personally would have used less silicone pipe, your going to suffer a little there as the pipes swell up especially at remapped boost pressure.

Let me know how your a/c gets on as its getting warmer, seen some results on mine that are similar to a blocked condenser and just wondering if the air its getting limited to it.

Impressed with your work!

Good work

Where did you get the clamps from ?

they look like these?

Mikalor - The World's Finest Hose Clamps

fancy doing mine and al pay you?

job looks good

I used the same types of clamp. Were not that expensive, but are the ultimate clamp to stop hoses popping off at max boost pressure.

whats the car standing on in the first picture?

scissor lift by the looks of it

whats the car standing on in the first picture?

Got a hydraulic scissor lift in my garage, gets the hubs up to about 5ft off the ground, has been really useful

Alex

Looks subtly very mean.

I like

Won't the fog light go back in or have you taken it out for another reason??

Pipework comes across where the foglight goes so will not quite fit, was going to look at modifying it, or might take both out and fit some carbon fibre vents I have to duct air into the bumper bar to flow through the intercooler

Alex

Got a hydraulic scissor lift in my garage, gets the hubs up to about 5ft off the ground, has been really useful

Alex

Kool might have to invest in one of them.

Have you got something to monitor the intake temps to see how affective it is? I have a mate with a scan gauge and he noticed his drop from about 40c to 22c when he had his pro alloy fitted.

Also what you have on there before? the standard SMIC?

Tell you what would be the most amazingly useful thing....

If you could list parts used and where they came from?

considering getting my mate to fit one on my car as it would cost about the same.

where did you get your intercooler from?

Allard sell intercoolers in various sizes.

considering getting my mate to fit one on my car as it would cost about the same.

where did you get your intercooler from?

Intercooler came from a seller called intercoolerking on eBay. Had read some good reviews about the quailty of the items and their efficiency

Alex

still swithering on getting a Forge for it but not sure if its going to be worth paying that much extra.

Maybe Ninja_Alex should start selling his own FMIC kit!

Maybe Ninja_Alex should start selling his own FMIC kit!

Put me down for one if you do

Pipework comes across where the foglight goes so will not quite fit, was going to look at modifying it, or might take both out and fit some carbon fibre vents I have to duct air into the bumper bar to flow through the intercooler

Alex

Always difficult to tell from piccies but it looks like you can grab back some space if you could rework the the way cold pipe enters the engine bay... Or find a trashed Ibiza Cupra and nick the "contortion" pipe they use.

J.

I've used the next size up intercooler and 2.5" pipework and my fog light fits o.k - I do have more bends in mine to get around that issue.