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- Jan 4, 2007
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Portland,
Oregon
Well last week, I started my SSAC FMIC install. I hadn't really seen a sticky for the 1gb... but of course, it doesn't really differentiate from the 1ga.
I purchased this kit from Ebay for what I thought was a steal. The kit came pretty quickly (about a week), all sealed up and packaged nicely. This was the long route piping, I didn't want to hack up the body just to get a pipe to go through.
After checking to make sure all the pipes and couplers were there, (of course, i was missing a coupler), I removed my UPIC pipe, turbo intake pipe, and SMIC and MAF sensor. At this time, I also jacked the car up and removed the front passenger tire, in order to removed the SMIC. Remove the tire and inner fender (the vented one behind the SMIC). Just to make it easy while I was there, I also removed the plastic ducting in front.
I removed the front bumper, and then wanted to do a little cleaning, because this is what I was left with:
After the bumper and bumper support beam (removed the 4, 14mm bolts - 2 on each side) and mocked up where I wanted to place my FMIC. I made sure that no coolant or power steering lines were touching the FMIC.
After I made sure about the lines in front, (I didn't want to cut or cap off anything because I wanted to keep the a/c and p/s), I placed the intercooler.
I measured the intercooler pipe going to my 2g throttle body elbow. Getting that pipe through the hole isn't going to work, unless you enlarge it. I plan to use a plasma torch to open this hole up.
I stopped here because it started raining like it always does in Oregon. I'll be finishing up the install this week of the FMIC, as well as dropping in my JDM 4g63 engine I just picked up from an importer. So close to driving my car for the first time in 2.5 years....
Here's a pic of the engine installed already, just for a teaser....
OUT WITH THE OLD...
IN WITH THE NEW... OR NEWER.
More to come...
Andrew
I purchased this kit from Ebay for what I thought was a steal. The kit came pretty quickly (about a week), all sealed up and packaged nicely. This was the long route piping, I didn't want to hack up the body just to get a pipe to go through.
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After checking to make sure all the pipes and couplers were there, (of course, i was missing a coupler), I removed my UPIC pipe, turbo intake pipe, and SMIC and MAF sensor. At this time, I also jacked the car up and removed the front passenger tire, in order to removed the SMIC. Remove the tire and inner fender (the vented one behind the SMIC). Just to make it easy while I was there, I also removed the plastic ducting in front.
I removed the front bumper, and then wanted to do a little cleaning, because this is what I was left with:
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After the bumper and bumper support beam (removed the 4, 14mm bolts - 2 on each side) and mocked up where I wanted to place my FMIC. I made sure that no coolant or power steering lines were touching the FMIC.
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After I made sure about the lines in front, (I didn't want to cut or cap off anything because I wanted to keep the a/c and p/s), I placed the intercooler.
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I measured the intercooler pipe going to my 2g throttle body elbow. Getting that pipe through the hole isn't going to work, unless you enlarge it. I plan to use a plasma torch to open this hole up.
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I stopped here because it started raining like it always does in Oregon. I'll be finishing up the install this week of the FMIC, as well as dropping in my JDM 4g63 engine I just picked up from an importer. So close to driving my car for the first time in 2.5 years....
Here's a pic of the engine installed already, just for a teaser....
OUT WITH THE OLD...
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IN WITH THE NEW... OR NEWER.
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More to come...
Andrew
