Put this intercooler on last night. Very nice piece, it did require a small bit of trimming, but not too much. It seems to be that throttle respose is a bit quicker and the power band feels much more linear across the entire power band. Overall a pretty good fit. I didn't even notice a .5 in pressure drop. Nothing noticebale atleast. Overall I am very impressed with this IC. Craftmanship is top notch.


Right now my current mods for the car are
Stock Turbo
AEM intake
BR Upper IC pipe
Helix Lower IC pipe
Dynoflash TTM
Walbro 255
1G Bov
3 inch TBE
Perrin MBC
Buschur Standard FMIC

...........props to Rowland for keeping me SANE


Here is a pic of it installed

 

Very nice I want to get one myself! Good looking fit.

 

this IC requires not special intercooler piping does it? If its the one i am thinking of, id love to get this one too.

 

Can you take a picture further back?

 

looks great

 

Looks sick!

 

I thought the whole point of the "standard" FMIC was to avoid having to trim the undertray? Is it possible that the brackets got bent in shipping?

 

Anytime Scott now I know how to take a bumper off lol

Nice unit; small cutting is needed near the mesh support and undertray. No big deal though; craftsmanship is topnotch!

 

so did I, but that was not the case?

 

I have the std. Buschur...there was no undertray trimming.

 

possible to take a picture of where you had to trim it? Im interested to know how much you need to trim. Everyone says little but how little is little?

 

Literally maybe2-3 square inches. The trimming to about 2 minutes. Let me see if I can get some pics real quick

 

Here are some pics, the undertray pic is alittle blurry, my camera doesn't take good close ups.
The first two pics are the intercooler screen frame that was trimmined with a pair of tin snips

 

I must reinterate that the trimming is miniscule and that it was well worth it for this IC

 

Yeah I can do that. Give me a bit.