stock FMIC?

[Mansour]

So I'm alittle confused, and also new to dsms all together. I have a 97 eclipse gst. and I cant see around the bumper very well enough to make a decision.

does the eclipse come with a front mount intercooler? Or is it just piping from the turbo straight to the throttle body coming from the fender?

thanks for the help

 

[bryanwheat]

They come stock with a side mount intercooler under the passenger side headlight.

 

[dsm94]

The piping goes from your turbo to your stock side mount which runs to throttle body from the passenger side mount.

 

[NHerron]

Stock setup, 2G Turbo

 

[Animalzach]

Side mount inter cooler my friend.

 

[jpmxrider489]

The smic mounts by the right wheel well and pipe comes up from the hole and on to your throttle body elbow. Then the other end goes to piping for the turbo.

 

[Theturdburgler]

No fmic from the factory on these bad boys.

 

[bryanwheat]

No fmic from the factory on these bad boys.

Get that post count up.

 

[DSMBanditFZ6]

Get that post count up.

Hahaha. I see what you did there!!


Also OP how the hell do you only have 3 tech posts and a red chicklet already?

 

[AngelOfPassion]

with my experince with other DSMers, on a stock engine, you can never raise the boost above 16psi or else that turbo will blow

Probably because of this advice he gave in another thread

 

[Boosted DSM 32]

Probably because of this advice he gave in another thread

hahahahahaha that made me chuckle poor guy...

 

[miguelmcv]

COME ON GUYS, Give him a break.


To the OP.

Check under your passenger Fender, you will see an aluminum radiator, That's your FMIC, The pipe will come from the turbo to the FMIC, and will come up behind your Fuse Box and go straight to the Throttle Body.

 

[LandSpeed-DSM]

If its in the stock location, its not an FMIC, the FM in FMIC stands for FRONT MOUNT.

The stock IC is a Side Mount.

That aluminum radiator... is a side mount intercooler.

Call it semantics if you will, but these terms are not interchangeable.

 

[MiroDSM]

So they are aluminum? Hmm I'll just add that to the pile of soda cans I can sell for scrap.

 

[AlaskanDsm]

Don't you mean SMIC? @ miguelmcv

Should have refreshed

 

[NHerron]

Besides the FMIC part, miguel is right, an intercooler is a form of radiator.

And I think the OP knows where the stock IC is by now...

BTW miroDSM, 'clean' aluminum is worth more than soda cans per lb. I used to separate pop can tabs from the cans. Ya I know, sad, but I used to move a lot of recycleables a few years ago and it made a difference.

 

[MiroDSM]

Besides the FMIC part, miguel is right, an intercooler is a form of radiator.

And I think the OP knows where the stock IC is by now...

BTW miroDSM, 'clean' aluminum is worth more than soda cans per lb. I used to separate pop can tabs from the cans. Ya I know, sad, but I used to move a lot of recycleables a few years ago and it made a difference.

Lol I do that too, here in San antonio Iv heard that a gallon milk jug full of the tabs goes for around $200