SoCal Intercooler - What are you running?

[Talesin]

Stock ones do suck. The poll is asking what we are running, not what we would run if we could afford it. :b

For a 1G, I'd go with the Punishment Racing street setup. $500 all said and done isn't bad when you still get to keep your crashbar, and don't have to cut your front bumper to crap just to get more airflow.

 

[unlmtdndeavor]

Stock ones do suck. The poll is asking what we are running, not what we would run if we could afford it. :b

For a 1G, I'd go with the Punishment Racing street setup. $500 all said and done isn't bad when you still get to keep your crashbar, and don't have to cut your front bumper to crap just to get more airflow.

I personally do not like the design of the Punishment Racing setup. I do not like the way the piping is bent, where the bov is located, and the size of the core. Plus the reason you don't have to cut the crashbar or bumpter is because it is tiny

 

[hopwoodp]

I should have asked who is using a "carb" legal intercooler/piping? But, I am not sure if everyone knows what was found on the "carb number(or) legal" thread.

My purpose behind this was to find out who is able to get by with a large front mount, or how many are using a "carb legal" intercooler, or who has found a better option. But, it seems like alot of people are getting by with what ever these days.

Keep the feed back coming.

 

[unlmtdndeavor]

I should have asked who is using a "carb" legal intercooler/piping? But, I am not sure if everyone knows what was found on the "carb number(or) legal" thread.

My purpose behind this was to find out who is able to get by with a large front mount, or how many are using a "carb legal" intercooler, or who has found a better option. But, it seems like alot of people are getting by with what ever these days.

Keep the feed back coming.

I am not using a CARB legal one or do I ever worry about it. I would be more worried with a loud exhaust than a FMIC. Like you said, a lot of people are getting by with whatever these days, I have been running a nice silver FMIC for the past 2 years around the Bay Area as well as in the Central Coast and have never been hassled. Keep in mind my car has a 3.5" exhaust and a Tial 44mm that dumps. Just don't be stupid and you won't get pulled over

 

[hopwoodp]

I am not using a CARB legal one or do I ever worry about it. I would be more worried with a loud exhaust than a FMIC. Like you said, a lot of people are getting by with whatever these days, I have been running a nice silver FMIC for the past 2 years around the Bay Area as well as in the Central Coast and have never been hassled. Keep in mind my car has a 3.5" exhaust and a Tial 44mm that dumps. Just don't be stupid and you won't get pulled over

I know in San Diego it got pretty bad, compaired to the rest of california. When I was down there, the police and a few other agencies really started cracking down on street racing and aftermarket parts that were not carb legal. They started pulling cars over and doing random searches. They also set up a portable smog machine and if any of these cars failed, they were impounded.

Down in that area it didn't matter how stupid you were, you still got pulled over unless you found a way to out smart them.

It doesn't seem as bad in the other parts of california compaired to san diego but, they are trying harder and harder to stop this. The inland empire started crushing cars and that kinda shifted a little bit to that area.

I have never been pulled over in the states but, then again, I lived on base most of the time. But, other co-workers I had were not so lucky and they were a lot more cautious about the way they drove that I was.

One thing I do know is, if you meet the profile, you are fair game. You could be a responsible driver on the road and not show off but, if any of the agencies that are a part of the crack down see you, you will be cited and you will get the book thrown at you.

That is why I am try to find the safe and "legal" alternative but, also practical approach to
this and inform others in the process.

 

[Talesin]

Actually, you still do have to cut your bumper support to get the piping through. I see no problems with the Punishment kit.. I mean, it's fairly standard short-route piping. The core isn't ricockulously huge, no, but it's more than enough for 90% of driving. It isn't going to heatsoak in thirty seconds, or probably even two solid minutes of boost, unless you're being an idiot and overrunning your turbo. I mostly was referring to that it's a nice size to fit the stock 1G GSX bumper without needing to cut away plastic to expose more of the core.

I get hassled just as a daily thing, with my exhaust. Don't drive like a Honda idiot, but the police find all kinds of reasons to pull me over, then let me go after they see I'm not sixteen with an attitude problem. Latest were not wearing my seatbelt (woot for automatic belts!), burnt out license plate lights (laid down and looked at them, they were fine), bald tires, and stolen car (they input a number of my license plate wrong.. THAT was fun).

Still want to find a different AFPR so I might stand a chance of sliding by on a demanded hood-pop... Aeromotives kinda stick out, but I can't find the one that bolts straight up to the fuel rail and looks like a stock part. :b And the Aeromotive kinda sticks out like a sore thumb.

 

[DSMSpyder99]

if you are so worried about cops pulling you over for your FMIC, just paint it flat black. Look in my gallery i think the second most recent picture (the rolling shot of my car) you cant even see my FMIC and it was a bright sunny day.

 

[hopwoodp]

if you are so worried about cops pulling you over for your FMIC, just paint it flat black. Look in my gallery i think the second most recent picture (the rolling shot of my car) you cant even see my FMIC and it was a bright sunny day.

That is why I went ahead and painted mine flat black. It seems to work pretty well. Some times I need to look twice to make sure my intercooler is still there and not stolen(knock on wood).

 

[clockworktoy]

theres no point in buying a "carb legal" FMIC since any modifications to the intercooler/pipes are NOT illegal and dont bypass any laws

 

[50trimmed1g]

Spearco/Griffin 18X6X3.5 I beleive. It is the 1g street intercooler that RRE sells. It is a pretty good intercooler actually. I doesn't heatsoak badly at 21 psi even after a few back to back pulls!

 

[mitsuclipsegsx]

SBR, first time driving it, blew the ic pipe right off

 

[BoostFrenzy]

Just switching over to a Greddy 24V from a stock SMIC. My car is pretty loud (I set off car alarms everywhere) and I live near a police station and work RIGHT next to a police station. I am surprised, to say the least, that cops don't even look at me let alone want to pull me over. And to top it off, I am missing a passenger seat so when I have a passenger, they sit in the back. . But hey, more power to them, they will Actually have leg room in the back seat. Isn't that a bizarre sentence?