Thinkin of doin a front mount cooler on my 93 fd, anyone done it suggestions... not a good idea??? I cant see how to do it without major surgery.

 

Well, first are you keeping the stock turbos and if you are then you need to get an FMIC which will adapt to them. Greddy makes one and the necessary piping. Second is the fact that you have to take your front bumper off...and the third thing is that the radiator will get less air with the FMIC in the way so you need to compensate for that.

 

I'm mostly interested in suggestion in howto physically fit the intercooler in front, I can handle the piping problems. I will be using the stock turbos, it just seemed to me the stock IC was smallish and there was very limited room for a larger one in the engine compartment.

 

I had a XS Engineering front mount intercooler, and the install pretty much went like this: Remove the front bumper skin, take the bumper reinforcement out(not to be reinstalled), and remove part of the front radiator support reinforcement beam by breaking it off at the weld spots with a chisel, install intercooler on the same bolts where the bumper reinforcement used to bolt on to, cut bumper skin to fit with the new intercooler, reinstall bumper skin, and run piping that's about it. This intercooler setup requires that you remove the bumper reinforcement so hold on if you get into a front end collision because the damage will be increased due to the fact that the bumper reinforcement isn't there anymore. Not all front mount intercoolers are made like this, but what makes the XS intercooler different from the rest is that it's a really mounted way up front, not all "front mounts" are mounted in this position.

 

That is pretty much the instructions for all the FMICs I do believe.