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Did the 3" thickness give you any problems?

Gary

It was 3.5" and no not a single issue. Fit like a glove in fact up against the chassis and leaves space for the bumper to go on without being pushed back into the AC condenser.

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John,

Nice photos. They really represent the quality of the finished product.

BTW, "Best in Class" at the Carlsen Show.

That's awesome man! I'm sorry I didn't make it but I know you understand why I couldn't. Get some pics up of your car! I can't wait to see how it came out.

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hangs a little to low for comfort, but valient effort nonetheless.

you wuss. it's in front of the wheels so what's the issue? other than cosmetic I suppose.

The piping and tig welds look really really good. Job well done. I wish I had the resources to do an indy job like that on the R.

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John, im curous as to how you got around the air conditioners compressor. You had a picture of it, but you edited it out. That thing is still giving me trouble as to how to route around that. Did you make a custom bracket to move it forward to get the piping behind it?

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My FMIC project is complete. All it needs now is to be powder coated and I'm done! I'll be putting my fogs and side bumper cover grilles back in once I get a new set of fogs.

I am using a 22"x8"x3.5" core with overall length of 28". Passenger side tubing is 2.25" aluminum with a metal diameter increase to 2.5" toward the bottom of the car where it makes a u-bend into the intercooler. Entire drivers side is 2.5" aluminum and connects directly to the OEM plastic tube that connects to the throttle body. Complete system was very easy to install. I used a total of 4 Samco Silicone couplers and 1 Samco Silicone reducer off of the turbo. The only change I may make is to find a 6" tall intercooler with the other dimensions the same just so it doesn't sit so low and I can potentially put the OEM splash guard back on. No cutting or modification to the car was required other than two holes in the front chassis brace to mount the intercooler to. The other modification was to the replaceable throttle body plastic tube. Other than that everything fit perfectly the way I wanted it - my goal was to keep it as OEM looking as possible.

Many thanks to CJ Yother for all his hard work and time into this. www.area5l0.net.

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John, That looks great and as always awsome photos. Would like to see it in person before the snow flys.

Jeff

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John, That looks great and as always awsome photos. Would like to see it in person before the snow flys. Jeff
We'll have to see if we can get some ski/ride days in while you are up here this season.
John, im curous as to how you got around the air conditioners compressor. You had a picture of it, but you edited it out. That thing is still giving me trouble as to how to route around that. Did you make a custom bracket to move it forward to get the piping behind it?
I'm not sure what you mean. I have a picture of the 2.5" piping going around the canister. After that there is a metal reducer and then it goes almost straight up with a slight bend to get around the AC compressor.
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We'll have to see if we can get some ski/ride days in while you are up here this season.I'm not sure what you mean. I have a picture of the 2.5" piping going around the canister. After that there is a metal reducer and then it goes almost straight up with a slight bend to get around the AC compressor.

Did you have to move that little power cord that is clipped to the front side of the compressor to make room for the pipe? I did.

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