My toyosport fmic install

[KylePiggy85]

Hey peps just thought i would share some photos with you on fitment on the FMIC kit from toyosports for reference if you wanted to fit one. It was a PITA to fit but worth the hassle and cheaper than the forge kit. My temps have now dropped to around 21-25 which is much better than 52. anyway enjoy the pics and if you did need any tips just let me no. P.S the brackets holding the FMIC where just bought from wickes and just used M8 bolts with nuts so i could adjust the height on the intercooler and 2 M6 bolts to fit to the crash bar. Enjoy

Just now need to go see Rob at W8Performance and roll on stage 2

[TERKIN]

good fun init!! which one is that seems to fit alot better than mine :wonder:

mines all round the show yours looks straight

[BrownBarge]

Out of interest how long did it take to fit? And doesnt all that extra piping cause any problems like lag?

Nice job btw

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Edited 11 June, 2013 by BrownBarge

[TERKIN]

took me 6hours,in the dark i made my brackets though im a gangster

[KylePiggy85]

It is a toyosports kit for an Octavia just search on ebay. Took in total 8 hours I tried to fit all the clamps in positions that if they do blow off I can get to them without having to remove everything all over again. Dnt notice any lag as I think there is not much more pipework than oem.

[TERKIN]

ive got the Octavia one to lol :wonder: no if about it bud,its when they blow off didnt notice any lag either

[Cossie1]

8 hours :zzz:

I know the toyosports is good value, but wow thats a day to fit an intercooler.

The Pro-alloy and forge fmic's take about 1 hour to fit.

[BrownBarge]

Do the engine cover still fit? Its something i wish to keep when i go down this route

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[TERKIN]

nope miles off did start making mine fit havent finished it yet and probably wont adds weight

crap pic but gives an idea

[Gtiracer]

Its not that bad when you're saving 300 odd quid or whatever. If it ws only £50 you save then id completely understand, but forge kits and the like are mega bucks in comparison and considering the value of the car itself seems ridiculous spending so much on one item.

People who buy them will always say its worth it for quality etc, but that's subjective

[Babs]

Anything that shows how poor value Forge kit is, is good in my book

[MR G]

How hot does the pipe coming from the turbo get as it runs very close to the battery :/

[Gtiracer]

How hot does the pipe coming from the turbo get as it runs very close to the battery :/

I would think the heat from the engine would be more of a worry if any at all. The battery box does most of the soaking up the heat from the battery

[GeeVRSman]

these are all good untill you want to fit a strut brace and a catch can ect. no room. I found this out the hard way... in 2 months i went through 3 intercooler set ups haha!

Nice work tho pal, looks very neat. Rob @ W8 will look after you muchly as well!

[VRade]

Can you PM me the link for this please buddy?

[Frisco]

It's £500 cheaper than the forge one. How can you compare the two?

If it took 2 days to fit and worked it would still be worth it!

[KylePiggy85]

Go onto eBay and search fmic seat Leon 1.8t I bought it from 1stcarparts. I got this kit as it included the pipe to fit the map sensor no drilling straight fit

[KylePiggy85]

Going to be relocating battery in boot when I have some spare time think it will look much better

[f2evotomo]

i had this exact same kit on my car and it seemed to cause nothing but hassle, i had power issues, running issues and boost issues, i put everything back to standard in the end which im gutted about, however it didn't seem to put every thing back to normal by doing this, the car still had issues running and boosting correctly, now it seems to have settled down after a couple of months to being normal again but it was frustrating to go through all these problems, i changed the n75 during the fitting as this seemed to be causing a continuous overboost issue when the FMIC was first fitted so i'm running this new n75 now.  why would i have had so many issues do you think ? i contemplated changing actuator, fuel pump, dv, MAF, Map sensor but no codes apart from the overboost have come up on vagcom.