As above.

My stock intercooler is on its last legs and rather than replace with standard I was going to upgrade to a FMIC.

Question is has anybody seen real gains over the stock with a standard turbo?

I was looking at a retro fit with a universal intercooler rather than pay £500+ for a bolt on unit.

Search twin pass universal FMIC on ebay.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

To get any gain from anything it'll need to be mapped for it. The limiting factor of a stock fabia vrs is its turbo (170bhp). So while a fmic will maybe help keep temps down in hot weather in most situations it'll not yild any more power on a standard turbo.

i agree it will make consistent power everytime rather than heat soak - this is the key.

As above.

My stock intercooler is on its last legs and rather than replace with standard I was going to upgrade to a FMIC.

Question is has anybody seen real gains over the stock with a standard turbo?

I was looking at a retro fit with a universal intercooler rather than pay £500+ for a bolt on unit.

Search twin pass universal FMIC on ebay.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Without a map, you have a better chance of losing power than gaining it. Though giving it beans up a hill or higher speed runs, it's likely to outperform the same car with the OEM SMIC. As the SMIC won't keep IATs down enough resulting in power loss. Probably more down to the smoke map than mechanical worries.

J.

Forge did just this and got gains of 7bhp

http://www.forgemotorsport.co.uk/content.asp?inc=product&cat=&product=FMINTSSIBD

However this may be down to the quality of their FMIC, not sure of the quality of these ebay units.

Either way you'll be reducing the inlet temps even in normal driving. With the standard SMIC, the best it would ever be was 7 to 8 above ambient. Now with an FMIC, its only 1 or 2 above,

I didn't get my mapped tweaked for my fmic but my car goes so much better for it. Maybe it's because it's holding power better because of less heat soak but it makes such a difference

Here's a graph took on a pd150 turbo intake temps with a smic and a fmic

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My IAT's run around 20 to 40 degrees with a large fmic even during hard driving. Measured from the obd port.Must be as good thing for reliability as my hybrid turbo set up is sweet as a nut even after around 95k odd miles car is on 125k now.

Agree with the above graph as those figures reflect my measurements .

My IAT's run around 20 to 40 degrees with a large fmic even during hard driving. Measured from the obd port.Must be as good thing for reliability as my hybrid turbo set up is sweet as a nut even after around 95k odd miles car is on 125k now.

Agree with the above graph as those figures reflect my measurements .

i think that graph might be yours what you put up in a old topic mate

Brilliant. Cheers for the replies. The graph does make sense to me. I notice a huge difference in the colder weather with the SMIC. So basically the FMIC will feel similar and be more consistant with the intake temp. Thankyou