I saw an FMIC on some show on Speed channel the other day. The maker was describing it. It had a vertical (or top to bottom design), with angled intake vents. They claimed it produced a perfectly distributed intake.

Does anyone know who makes this? Would you recommend it?

My stock IC is bent up pretty well from bugs and debris. The car feels soooo much slower than when new. I'm thinking the damaged IC is the reason.

Sorry for my bad memory...thanks.

 

it would make for very inefficient piping. w/ the intake on the driver side of the engine bay, the manifold facing driver side, the turbo outlet nozzle facing passenger, and the width of the headlights, it would make it very inefficient. verticle fmic's are usually for cars w/ the outlet of turbo and the manifold facing the same direction due to engine constraints. or for a forward facing manifold on some rwd cars, rarely for fwd oriented vehicles.

 

Sorry, I don't quite follow you. However, maybe my terminology is not right. When I say verticle, I mean that the straight solid bars across the IC go up/down, as opposed to side to side. The orientation of the FMIC is as stock.

As far as I could tell, the piping remains the same.

 

There are some Japanese tuner cars that use this style of FMIC. The problem is the radiator gets in the way if it located in the stock position. It definitely decreases the length of piping and gives a straight shot to the manifold.

 

well generally if you do a vertical core, you get a more efficient design, because u can run more charge rows, but with less length, therefor less drag on the air....

there are different opinions on this.

you would have to run the compressor side in the bottom lower left (requiring no mor piping than normal) but the top tank would exit the upper right corner (if you can find room) and then snake down a bit to connect to the upper ic pipe to the tbody.

im sure it can be done, we've thought about trying it, but not sure if it's worth it. The evo has such a nice layout now, and you can use a pretty tall core to gain the extra charge rows even though sometimes they arent getting direct frontal air, which most do.

chad b

 

The IC I was referring to was on "Street Tuner Challenge" on Speed. They put it on a Nismo Skyline. It is made by XS Engineering, although they don't appear to be advertising it. I think it was a custom job just for this show. The show is on each week and they are still working on the Skyline, although I haven't seen the IC since the first show. Perhaps in the end they show it again.

 

i think the original runduce evo is running a vertical FMIC