Well, I just posted this piccie on talkaudio in a FMIC intercooler type thread, so figured it would be rude not to do the same here.

Firstly, yes that IS smooth green hammerite on the bumper bar. It now has two coats on all of it so looks a lot smarter. Yes that is my mate who wrote FMIC/PD130/etc around the engine bay! And YES, I love this FMIC!

edit: Anyone see a 312mm caliper poking out?

I like it

Agricultural engineering at it's best Jason - I like it!!

Nice battery BTW

Agricultural engineering at it's best Jason - I like it!!

Nice battery BTW

I'm thinking of keeping it! Ultra convenient power pack, til it ran out!

Ooooo now thats just dying for a "money shot" of mine

The FMIC pipework is aoparently rated to 35psi. Convenient.

Bahh... they aint letting me post threds or replys :(

The FMIC pipework is aoparently rated to 35psi. Convenient.

With no jubilee clips on it aint :P

Still think it's the maddest idea ever, but good on ya

It's coming together very nicely, how annoying we have to stop the flintstone jokes

Apart from sticking a bumper on it, what's left to do before you're able to drive it?

and heres a moneyshot of my pikey mod

note.. my current fmic is bigger than this

A bigger just would NOT fit in the gap on this car. It took up the maximum amount of room between the bumper bar mounts, and there still had to be a fair bit of angle grinding done of various bits, to get it to fit properly.

Its interesting to see the routes of the pipework though. I see the Forge one comes down in front of the IC to be the intake on the left, then the exit uses the route of the original SMIC. Whereas mine uses the intake on the right, but goes up and through the engine bay to the inlet manifold. Two very different routes, but I doubt any precise route will be better than an another? I count 6 90 deg bends on my pipework (3 each side of the FMIC), hmmm, and 6 on the Forge one too. (Do I see 5 on intake side, and just 1 shallower bend to SMIC pipework?)

The main difference being the Allard pipe work runs back up over the hot engine whilst the Forge one returns accross the front in the cool air stream.

Are those scaffold tubes? ;-)

The main difference being the Allard pipe work runs back up over the hot engine whilst the Forge one returns accross the front in the cool air stream.

Hadn't thought of it like that before, but there's a fair amount of gap between engine & pipework so I'd hope that no significant heat would actually irradiate off the block through the alloy pipework and affect the intake temp by much - Would be a different matter if it was touching I guess? Then it would be a conductivity matter. :eek:

I might still consider something to wrap around the FMIC pipework though, preferably coated in something chrome-y.

edit: There's jubilee clips on it now. :P

A bigger just would NOT fit in the gap on this car. It took up the maximum amount of room between the bumper bar mounts' date=' and there still had to be a fair bit of angle grinding done of various bits, to get it to fit properly.

Its interesting to see the routes of the pipework though. I see the Forge one comes down in front of the IC to be the intake on the left, then the exit uses the route of the original SMIC. Whereas mine uses the intake on the right, but goes up and through the engine bay to the inlet manifold. Two very different routes, but I doubt any precise route will be better than an another? I count 6 90 deg bends on my pipework (3 each side of the FMIC), hmmm, and 6 on the Forge one too. (Do I see 5 on intake side, and just 1 shallower bend to SMIC pipework?) [/quote']

Jase.. apart from the blue bits you see here, they connect to the OE pipework... theres adaptors in to connect to the "snap ring" bits of IC piping. so the smic will just fit back on when i sell the car.

the left hand pipe has the maf sensor in it, and connects to the end of that plastic pipe that runs along the side of the engine behind the headlight, and the bottom pipe connects to the funny shaped OE pipe at the bottom of the engine near the crank pully.

i suppose the left side pipe could have been moved to the middle of the core, but would mean more complex pipework for no tangiable gain.

interestingly ive seen the forge prototype for the ibiza mk4, and its totally different again as theres less space, that uses a dual pass design.

Hadn't thought of it like that before, but there's a fair amount of gap between engine & pipework so I'd hope that no significant heat would actually irradiate off the block through the alloy pipework and affect the intake temp by much - Would be a different matter if it was touching I guess? Then it would be a conductivity matter

Its still running through the engine bay though which is hot and will heat the pipe up to some degree.

Yeah, that sensor (one with two screws in right? oval shaped?) goes in on mine at the 90 degree bend in the engine bay - You can actually see it bulge just after that bend, as it heads for the inlet bend. We encountered many issues with the FMIC to be honest

1) lots of grinding needed to fit properly in the gap (and welding too...)

2) Had to adapt some "spare" pipework as original SMIC pipework wouldn't fit on the hybrid outlet pipe (much bigger than OEM) So the outlet pipework had to be totally custom modded to meet with Allards pipework.

3) The final bend was designed for the PD100 inlet manifold (after all it was sold to me as a PD100 FMIC ) so had to use an OEM PD130 bend and attach that to the Allard pipework in the usual way (as per piccie) Just means I don't get a sexy blue turbo pipe on the inlet manifold, c'est la vie!

Looking good mate.

I think you'll be on the road way before my little project.

Jason,

Gotta pic of the hybrid turbo?

John

Looking good mate.

I think you'll be on the road way before my little project.

But i think the subtle would be a wee bit quicker than jasons car...

it would be spanked by a furby RS tho....

Nice work! Saw a car yesterday with heat shield material all over its IC pipework and back of turbo - maybe you could get some of that for yours.

Can't remember who makes it, but its silver and has a cloth backing, and isn't that expensive either...

Nice work! Saw a car yesterday with heat shield material all over its IC pipework and back of turbo - maybe you could get some of that for yours.

Can't remember who makes it' date=' but its silver and has a cloth backing, and isn't that expensive either...[/quote']

Think Andy Ellis may have lagged his with this stuff too - he also did the cold air feed as well I think

Chris

Mines the same as Jasons, we did some tests on the road & the temps were fine so unless your a "pureist" I think it will be fine

Nice work! Saw a car yesterday with heat shield material all over its IC pipework and back of turbo - maybe you could get some of that for yours.

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It was probably some of this stuff.