My filter sits on the pipe and the bonnet only just shuts. I couldn't have got a bigger filter on there

I know someone else fitted one of these and had to chop more than I did. Let me do a search

 

Here you go, see post 35 http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthrea...highlight=fmic

 

Cheers mate

 

Anyone fitted this yet to a my97?

 

is it too late to get one of these for my 93 wrx at £285 deliverd?

i have cash waiting

stew 07731 829190

 

Think I saw they have a buy it now on ebay for 250quid.

All I can say is dont. Service from flat4 was spot on but you have to savage your bumper to fit this and the pipework is terrible, completely forced into the engine bay. Save and pay for an expensive one. These are cheap because they're rubbish.

 

point taken. but i am interested to have a look

 

 

i take it that its your car and you bought one? do you have pictures of where the poor quality areas are?

stew

 

it's the pipework that did it for me, notice the water bottle sitting in the engine bay... it's nowhere near that shape anymore, I found that it just never lined up properly anywhere.

The amount needed to cut of the bumper was scarey. A good way into it I just thought 'what on earth have I done'

For anything less than 400bhp go for an STI7-8 tmic and large scoop. Plus it's imensely laggy now, but I do also have a big turbo and headers whichdoesn't help.

 

I found exactly the samething on my sti3, the pipework on the passenger side had to be literally forced in. The aircon fan had to have a big chunk removed so the pipe would clear it. Cannot comment on the lag as the car is being run in at the moment.

 

My god you lot must either be butchers or perfectionists!!!

I have an MY00 and everything fitted perfectly with no squashed water bottles or aircon fan cutting and I can close my bonnet and unscrew the oil filler cap, the inlet pipe fitted snuggly between the battery and the oil filler cap.

The only issue I had was how much of the wing to cut away to fit the outlet pipe and my APS.

Will post pics sometime.

 

 

That's a nice series of red x's

my mate wanted to cut the inner wing when we were doing mine, had to draw the line there, no way. managed to force it in instead

 

Interesting the were all there earlier!!

It seems the ftp server is down and my pics are no longer in the directory, wonder if the isp had to do a restore or summat

 

Can anybody tell me what size all the hose clamps are as i want to order some better quality ones, i knackered one when fitting and have have one of the connections blow apart allready.

The FMIC is fitted and what b4stard it was to to do! Lots of metal and bumper cutting involved and i dropped the intercooler down more slightly to help the pipes clear a bit better.

 

Will put some pics of mine up tomorrow

 

Mines still in bits, pipe work is a mare. It will need cutting in a couple of places to make it fit. So far i have removed the battery, fuel filter and some pipes and its still tight. Its been in bits for weeks now as i have had no time to get it sorted. I am doing it myself as the garage said it was to much work for them.

Scott at flat 4 has been helpful enough, he sent me some extra pipe out and always replys to my email....even the one i sent at 3 in the morning rather stressed after trying to fit the top pipe for hours on end.

I will post up some pics of my probs and how i solved them when i am off work next if that helps anyone.

 

How come the intercooler isn't in the middle ofthe car??? it seems to be off to one side.

I've got a hybrid one on mine. Clamps are the proper motersport type Ie: T bar, we had no problems fitting but we did have to cut the inner wing.

I hear what your saying about the pipe work, mine has discoloured and flaking in places due to winter salt etc. goner have them cleaned and either powder coated or sprayed.

I don't notice any lag and I've got a bigger turbo than standard (Vf28).

 

If it didn't sit to one side the cold air inlet pipe wouldn't line up with the throttle body, and probably would have had to cut the inner wing. May have allowed the fog lights to re-fit that way though.

 

I need to cut this pipe to make it line up with the other pipe i cut but not sure were to cut A or B. I'm thinking B because cutting at A would take it closer to the washer bottle.

Not really sure if it makes any odds but would like some input

 

Is that a phase 1 - 1.5? I think the place to cut is B, there's a poston this or another thread about the same thing for earlyer cars

 

Its a 93 ra, I cut it at B in the end. Just need some pipe to join it up. Having a go at the other side next week.

 

Here are the pics of mine

http://i4.tinypic.com/10oi328.jpg
http://i4.tinypic.com/10oi6gw.jpg
http://i4.tinypic.com/10oi93l.jpg

banny