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Hey guys i wanted to get your input, I'm looking at an r33 and thinking about buying it however it has had an intercooler fitted with no return pipes. So yes it has had the chassis cut and run above the radiator.

Wat r up options to make this legal:

Engineer cert

Return to stock and cover hole

Return flow intercooler and cover hole

Anything else and would this cost to get it done?

Thanks in advanced

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I bought one with a setup like that and I got f**ked over. Id suggest if you bought it swap the fmic for a return flow one straight away and get the hole covered up. The standard smic gets heat soaked pretty bad. I got my hole properly welded up by a guy in the city for like 500 but that came with the required vacc cert with it, I imagine getting it covered up just so cops won't see won't cost as much. I got a return flow fmic from jj for I think 450, sell the fmic on it ATM for a few hunj.. U might be better off finding one that doesn't have the hole but depends on the rest of the cars condition I guess. My 0.02c anyways

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I bought one with a setup like that and I got f**ked over. Id suggest if you bought it swap the fmic for a return flow one straight away and get the hole covered up. The standard smic gets heat soaked pretty bad. I got my hole properly welded up by a guy in the city for like 500 but that came with the required vacc cert with it, I imagine getting it covered up just so cops won't see won't cost as much. I got a return flow fmic from jj for I think 450, sell the fmic on it ATM for a few hunj.. U might be better off finding one that doesn't have the hole but depends on the rest of the cars condition I guess. My 0.02c anyways

Yer mate, definitely don't intend on keeping it there, would remove it ASAP.

Did you pay 500 for the weld and still had to change to a return flow cooler? Wow that is pretty expensive!

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I think I paid about 500 for the vacc cert which included the welding, but it was about 2 years ago do I've forgotten now. Happened 4 weeks after buying the car too -.- I went to a r34 smic when that happened but eventually swapped to the return flow.

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sorry to go abit off topic, but changing the cooler pipes (or even intake into turbo) from the rubber ones to metal... is that legal?

You're allowed 1 intake mod, so a fmic kit you can have as long as you're air filter, bov, intake pipe are all standard, last I checked anyway...

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