02 dump tube blocking i/c pipe

[eclipse_16g]

I purchased a SS 02 housing from forced performance, i also have the 1g punishment racing fmic. Has anyone used this setup and run into fitment issues with the lower driver side intercooler pipe not being able to fit because of the housing's dump tube being in the way? If so how did you resolve this? Should i make a custom intercooler pipe to somehow go around the dump tube, or cut the dump tube and route it differently.

 

[eclipse_16g]

Still would like some input if anyone has run into this before.

 

[turboglenn]

Are you running short route IC piping where the turbo pipe goes towards the drivers side and into the intercooler? If so that's probably why as for the most part in the first half of the history of DSMs both pipes always ran to the pasenger side adn then turned, looped, and snaked to their destination. Because of this a lot of companies engineered their products with that setup in mind, and O2 housings and extrnal wastegate dumps are some of these producs that take up what little space there is over there with the makers not expecting there to be annything but the oil filter over there.

I see a lot of people with fitment issues on things and looking for a simple soolution, well the truth is modding is customizing and unless you pick everything ahead of time or all at once with the fit of each in mind you'll run into these types of things, and the only solutions are buy different parts that don't interfere with each other or "further customize" the setup to make it fit.

You're probably going t have to have some changes made to the dump by a fabricator to cut and weld piping to re-route it around teh IC pipe to somewhere it can dump safely, or move the IC pipe and re-route that to make room for the dump.

I always get baffled at first glance on these threads because i have made almost everything on my car from "universal" parts like mandrel bent pipe pieces, a raw intercooler core, and cut and welded and made everything fit myself,(hell there was no down pipe for my application that i could buy 10 years ago when i put the T3/t4 hybrid on, so i've been forced to think this way since the begining, where most people expect to buy something and have it just bolt in place. But being that' i've fabbed things for most of my life, i guess i just expect that everyone else thinks like i do and when there's something in the way they know that something has to be cut, moved, welded and maybe more but since i do it for a living it comes natural and i don't realize other people don't all think like me There's nothing wrong with that, and if it weren't for this fact i wouldn't get much work so we all have our niche's I guess

 

[dexterholland04]

On my last setup I ran into the same problem. I cut the dump tube and took a section of flex exhaust piping and slipped it over the dump tube and used a muffler clamp. I header wrapped it and it allowed me to route it around the hot pipe of my intercooler. With my current setup, I am running a TiAL MVS; so I just took the same piece of flex pipe and welded the vband flange to it. It works perfectly!

Edit: Turboglenn, I couldn't agree with you more! Most things worth "bolting on" have to be modified or involve some sort of fabrication. You sir, are a true DSMer!