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I have purchased a FMIC and mounted it in car (was fun) but now I am considering the piping options.

1. back to standard pipes on left side

2. through R/h engine bay over fan to cast pipe

3. forward facing plenum

All three have good and bad points and cost seems the major factor but is the plenum worth the cost compared to other two and is 2 better than 1?

Any theads relating to this?

Any help much appriciated:cool:

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I am currently doing the same thing.

At the beginning of the week I started to install a modified standard inlet menifold with the throttle body positioned on the front of the plenum.

I got the whole cut for the piping on the drivers side, then the fun started.

First the inlet manifold is an absa bitch to get off ( bolts underneath hard to get too)

then you have to think about what changes.

sensor position for TPS switch

need a new throttle cable as it no longer reaches

piping modification for BOV, boost controller, and various other pipes that you would have to modify just to get them to connect again.

needless to say as of 10:30 last night I have decided to re install the standard manifold and copy the design of the blitz piping across below/behind the cooler to the original holes on the passenger side.

This means a lot less hassles and additional parts you need to buy / fabricate.

only problem now is I really don't want to have to tackle putting everything back.

I hope this gives you more to think about..... but if you are to attempt this type of install you had better be a more patient man than I !!!!

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Yeah I didn't think the plenum idea would be straitforward and was wondering what had to change for that to happen, alot more to it than just changing plenum and also plumbing the bov back to factory would be a major as well. rmahnovetsky

has plumbing pipes for fmic as a group buy but they run back over radiator and would loose atmo bov (but would fill that hole u just cut though)

so you have forward plenum 4 sale?

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