FMIC Idea

Post by **Paulm** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 9:13 pm

Anyone thought of buying 2 of these shallow intercoolers and mounting them on the front of the car ( behind the bumper obviously). They would work 1 for each turbo.

It would need to be measured carefully and prob not the one shown, I used it just as an example.

It would mean the left turbo would feed into the right side of the inlet and vice versa for the right turbo. I can't see why this would cause any probs as all the charge air ends up in the same place at the end of the day.

Just a thought

Post by **s4woody** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:05 pm

but if its forced in2 the left inlet and the right inlet wouldnt u get the problem of both boost,s meeting in the middle and causing a sort of back pressure?? just a thought.

Post by **Paulm** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:28 pm

But they meet in the middle anyway at that y piece rubber boot that splits all the time. Instead of the left going to the left side of the boot it would go to the right side

Post by **s4woody** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:41 pm

this looks quite trick..

Post by **s4woody** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:52 pm

i dnt think them meeting at the ttb is the same thing..i meant wouldnt the inside pressure be like to magnets comming together and repelling..wouldnt there be 2 lots of hot pressured boost going nowwhere cos there,s no way past each other..ive seen fmic,s but with 2 inlet and outlets..hey but what do i no..thats what forums are 4..

Post by **Paulm** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:59 pm

this is what i mean. yes i know i should have been an artist

Post by **dummi** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 11:22 pm

why not use the duh-engineering one i'm installing mine in a few weeks

http://duhengineering.com/fmic/index.html

Post by **Paulm** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:03 am

Yeah must admit that looks pretty damn smart but for $2650 for cooler, pipes, shipping and fan you have to weight up the cost = power, not that good

Post by **s4woody** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 12:36 pm

thats a grt pic but the bottom pic shows a single ic but with twin inlets /outlets..the original pic at top show 1 inlet/outlet..thats the type i think mite cause probs..not the twin inlet /outlet version..

Post by **fade2grey** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:34 pm

erm.. lots of pipework so lag in throttle response?
plus the effective size of the FMIC's may be smaller than the effective size of the ones in the wings - that said though the cooler air might make up for it?

Post by **grizz** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 2:36 pm

He ment 2 small ones on top of each other , one wound feed in at the bottom left & out on the bottom right . The other would feed in top right & out top right . cheaper to use 2 i/c's than one big one . woody , i think that you pic is for a 1.8t a4 . Intercoolers have been coverd before . i've spent several hours on the phone with 'pace' , they should have started on s4/rs4 i/c's in early jan but they were trying to finish off the bmw mini at the time .I'll call them on monday..

Post by **s4woody** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:38 pm

cheers grizz i must admit i missed the bit that said 2 of these..im such i div..

sorry paul..

Post by **Paulm** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:17 pm

Yeah thats what i meant grizz

no prob woody, just thinking out loud really and had a few beers into the bargin.

fade, I dont think there will be a great deal more pipe work. It looks it on my drawing but it is pretty crap really. I read a 40 or 50bhp gain in FMIC, this seems a bit high to me but you never know.

It will be interesting to see what pace come up with

Post by **dummi** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:00 pm

i'm hoping cooling will be greater than lag in pipework, only reason i'm getting fmic is to reduce heat lag hopefully make the car perform more consistent, i will report in a few weeks.

Post by **Paulm** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:40 pm

please do, it will make for some good reading.

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