Crazy piping on my fmic, opinions please!

[Denji]

Okay, well i had planned on setting up an intercooler with the piping to be as you might expect.. a typical setup (as if you were facing the car the right pipe would go to the turbo and the left would go to the intake manifold). however, i was unable to route my piing this way due to the outlet of the turbo and the larger diameter of my U bends. I have the right piping going across to my uicp where my smic was. Hence the left side is heading to the turbo. I realize this is more piping than the other way, but its the only way i could figure the piping out with what i had (car had to be done by monday it is my daily driver to school). Do you guys think this is a major problem or that i should just leave it how it is? Lets hear the opinions, please tell me i dont have to change this setup, it looks good and everything is routed and holding well.

 

[Lunch_Box]

No it is not a major problem.

 

[Denji]

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ldiosyncraticguy/detail?.dir=e893&.dnm=ad40.jpg&.src=ph

heres a diagram, thank you for your opinion lunch box!

 

[LRS95TSI]

isnt that the same concept of a greddy fmic? i dont forsee that to be a problem at all, ne more lag then expected?

 

[Denji]

Honestly, I can tell a difference, my full boost is about 300 rpm (or so)later..its 2.25 piping so its relatively pretty small, and yes, thats about the same as the greddy fmic, my friend has one, thats what we modeled it on after we couldnt get it to work the original way i had planned. I want to run my uicp down short route style with the extra piping i have next week. The lag is def. worth the topend i gained from the FMIC setup. The guys on the forums convinced me to go fmic instead of smic, now i see why. Intercoolers dont only support more hp, they increase it.

 

[Lunch_Box]

How is the outlet on the turbo facing that makes you need to route the piping like that?

 

[Denji]

its a t-28 killer, like a stock t-25. If i had tighter U bends i couldve made it work, it just wasnt practical to get it to do another U to meet back up with the turbo coming from the right side. Only way i would have clearance for a 180 U like that would be to go under the frame support bar.. i dont know what its called exactly.

 

[f4st]

holy lots of piping, you have

 

[Denji]

yeah i just figured the more the better right? I was considering throwing a few random loops in there for good measure

 

[Thomas91169]

actually if you measured it, it would almost be the same amount of piping either way you do it. unless you were comparing yours to a short route(straight from pass side outlet to TB, and not through the old smic location).

and btw, that fmic and piping fills up the mouth of the 2ga pretty sweet. looks good imo.

 

[Denji]

now that you mention it, it does seem to be only aboout 8 inches or so more piping, i am doing a short route later though. I think it looks pretty good too, i appreciate it the response.

 

[napkinthief]

That seems to be fine, but it may be a little more than 8 inches of piping because you are looping back over the intercooler, so you have more piping equal to the length of the intercooler, minus whatever more it takes to have the 2 U bends from the turbo.

Am I understanding you correctly that you are using the intercooler backwards? Turbo inlet is actually the Intake out and vice versa? Im not sure, but may this cause a problem?

 

[Denji]

i wasnt worried about the reverse flow, as its made for universal applications many cars may use it to flow that way naturally.. Basically its designed to flow either direction, i think this would be true for any intercooler.. but yes, i am using it backwards from the way most dsms have it set up. (U bends are pretty big, i think 8-12 inches of additional piping on my setup is def. a true statement)

 

[Syndicate13]

Cut the elbow off the turbo and use piping for a downflow turbo. You may want to weld a little lip around the end to ensure the coupler doesn't blow off. Then short route the piping on the passenger side of the car, around the radiator support and straight up to the TB.