How Hard Is To Install An Intercooler In A Fd?
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Intercooler installation difficulty varies greatly depending on which unit you get. I bought a Blitz stock mount intercooler. It is probably the easiest to mount. It fits in the stock location in just a few hours. The front mount units are much more difficult.
Intercooler installation difficulty varies greatly depending on which unit you get. I bought a Blitz stock mount intercooler. It is probably the easiest to mount. It fits in the stock location in just a few hours. The front mount units are much more difficult.
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The easiest intercooler to install/uninstall is the Rotary Extreme V-mount...... but that's just the intercooler. The radiator that goes with the kit is a different story.
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I was going to have to protest...
Yes the IC is a snap on the RE V-Mount... the Rad will take you the rest of the weekend , not really, but with all the Airbox, Battery, and Cooling relocation it's not for the faint hearted...
Yes the IC is a snap on the RE V-Mount... the Rad will take you the rest of the weekend , not really, but with all the Airbox, Battery, and Cooling relocation it's not for the faint hearted...
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In my opinion it all comes down to how much you love working on your car, I did a FMIC and the whole thing was measured up and custom made for me ( including piping) the whole excercise took me about 8 weeks, but this was only with a few days a week work and included repositioning the radiator ( dropping it to get the plumbing over the top).
I found it was all in the prep work first that made things easier i.e. battery moved to boot, airpump gone, AST repositioned........ If you plan on spending time going custom make sure you do all the prep work and planning first, if you plan on being a boring bastard like all these other FD owners and just buy all your stuff staright from the shelf you shouldnt have any problems, but the self - reward will be less
I found it was all in the prep work first that made things easier i.e. battery moved to boot, airpump gone, AST repositioned........ If you plan on spending time going custom make sure you do all the prep work and planning first, if you plan on being a boring bastard like all these other FD owners and just buy all your stuff staright from the shelf you shouldnt have any problems, but the self - reward will be less
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The first time I attempted to install my PFS SMIC and intake, it took a couple of hours before I gave up. Turns out the couplers I had were crap and Mazda changed the secondary intake hose for 95 only, so it wouldn't fit with the PFS intake. Now I could remove and re-install the intake and SMIC in about 15 minutes....
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if you plan on being a boring bastard like all these other FD owners and just buy all your stuff staright from the shelf you shouldnt have any problems, but the self - reward will be less
Look into the long term for your intercooler needs. You may find that a SMIC will be all you need and that's easy to install.
Do a search and make sure you are comfortable with any mods the IC requires.
There's enough of us "boring bastards" on here that have done it so there should be plenty of info and pics.
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I have the Greddy FMIC...the only reason it was difficult was because I was reading **** for directions...Took me all of one day and then part of the next. probably about 8-9 hours total. But now that Iknow how do it I would do agian....it's not bad really..
- remove front bumper and reenforcement (sp)
- remove battery, stock IC, and undertray
- Drain coolant and remove RAD
- remove coolant line and bleed powersteering coolant.
- install the kits coolant line
- Trim front bumper (takes a couple tries to get it "perfect")
- mount fmic (also have to move horn)
- drill holes for radiator tabs
- mount RAD
- remount the AC coolant thingy upright
- Figure out which way to install FMIC pipes
- refill RAD
- Remount bumper
- Trim undertray to accomodate all the **** you moved around.
- Relocate or miniturize battery.
Tripple check everything, fire her up and go for a spin
This is what I remember...
Offense taken here too...I also spend a **** load of time and work hard doing whatever I do to my car....Wheterh shelf bought or fabbed.
I prefer shelf bought because all the trial and error has been done....I have a frined (no names mentioned) that fabs his own stuff....I take my hat off to him but when I look into his engine bay....I see home made fabricated stuff...Personally I think it looks like **** BUT it works...it's not nice, neat, show quality **** like you can do with shelf bought parts. Some people do nice work though...BUT that's about 1% of the people who actually fab their own stuff.
- remove front bumper and reenforcement (sp)
- remove battery, stock IC, and undertray
- Drain coolant and remove RAD
- remove coolant line and bleed powersteering coolant.
- install the kits coolant line
- Trim front bumper (takes a couple tries to get it "perfect")
- mount fmic (also have to move horn)
- drill holes for radiator tabs
- mount RAD
- remount the AC coolant thingy upright
- Figure out which way to install FMIC pipes
- refill RAD
- Remount bumper
- Trim undertray to accomodate all the **** you moved around.
- Relocate or miniturize battery.
Tripple check everything, fire her up and go for a spin
This is what I remember...
Originally posted by spekdah
.........if you plan on being a boring bastard like all these other FD owners and just buy all your stuff staright from the shelf you shouldnt have any problems, but the self - reward will be less
.........if you plan on being a boring bastard like all these other FD owners and just buy all your stuff staright from the shelf you shouldnt have any problems, but the self - reward will be less
I prefer shelf bought because all the trial and error has been done....I have a frined (no names mentioned) that fabs his own stuff....I take my hat off to him but when I look into his engine bay....I see home made fabricated stuff...Personally I think it looks like **** BUT it works...it's not nice, neat, show quality **** like you can do with shelf bought parts. Some people do nice work though...BUT that's about 1% of the people who actually fab their own stuff.
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Originally posted by spekdah
If you plan on spending time going custom make sure you do all the prep work and planning first, if you plan on being a boring bastard like all these other FD owners and just buy all your stuff staright from the shelf you shouldnt have any problems, but the self - reward will be less
If you plan on spending time going custom make sure you do all the prep work and planning first, if you plan on being a boring bastard like all these other FD owners and just buy all your stuff staright from the shelf you shouldnt have any problems, but the self - reward will be less
This is why you purchase the kits that are already complete, not to make it "easier".
Search for posts by "Kevin T. Wyum". He designed the ASP/M2 IC's. You'll see that there was quite a bit of engineering done for those.
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Originally posted by spekdah
if you plan on being a boring bastard like all these other FD owners and just buy all your stuff staright from the shelf you shouldnt have any problems, but the self - reward will be less
if you plan on being a boring bastard like all these other FD owners and just buy all your stuff staright from the shelf you shouldnt have any problems, but the self - reward will be less
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Originally posted by tcb100
The PFS stock mount takes an hour, at most two, even if you never did it before.
The PFS stock mount takes an hour, at most two, even if you never did it before.
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