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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: fowler21 on 29 June 2010, 21:17
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Whats the best fmic for money? i saw the ones on ebay for aound 100 quid they any good??
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if you want it to look right, good fitment and easy bolt on then save your pennies and get either a THS or forge FMIC kit
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i payed about £180 for my ebay jobbie, lots of cutting needed to get it right but it works well.
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ooooww relly dont wana do any cutting :( did the ebay one make much dif in performance??
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well its not really a real power gain anyway, its just to help your engine run right under high temps.. you may notice some lag (i didnt)
i cant say i noticed any increase in preformane but then i only drive 1.5miles to work and back.. on the motorway it gets to keep temps down really well..
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ooo ok thanks mate
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if you want it to look right, good fitment and easy bolt on then save your pennies and get either a THS or forge FMIC kit
wise words, bought an ebay cooler myself then decided to give up as so much cutting needed to be done
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I bought a Forge one, it's the tits! I didn't have to cut more than 3mm and I havnt got a ridiculous length of pipe going round my bay
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I bought a Forge one, it's the tits! I didn't have to cut more than 3mm and I havnt got a ridiculous length of pipe going round my bay
You shouldn't have had to cut anything? :huh:
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If you want to maintain all original grills then a small piece of the centre had to be cot away, the bonnet catch central support had to be cut half way down and the crappy drivers side grill that forge supple needed a whisker off it too. I could have probably got away with it and gangstered it in but it looks like a factory o/e job. Also managed to keep the headlight washers working too
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i'd save pennies and go for an £50 ebay fmic. forge ones are sooooo expensive!
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Buy cheap, buy twice!!!!! The Forge one is direct fit with made to measure silicone pipes. The universal ones are a an averagely made intercooler with loads of pipe bends thrown in a bag so when it doesn't fit they can say it's universal, some fabrication is required. The THS is cheaper and probably as good as the forge and doesn't scream boost leak like a hong kong special
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Buy cheap, buy twice!!!!! The Forge one is direct fit with made to measure silicone pipes. The universal ones are a an averagely made intercooler with loads of pipe bends thrown in a bag so when it doesn't fit they can say it's universal, some fabrication is required. The THS is cheaper and probably as good as the forge and doesn't scream boost leak like a hong kong special
they are actually not bad quality when you look at them. Your paying forge for their research and good fitment.
im not on about a universal kit, im on about a small fmic.
boost leak? they are perfectly fine, especially as its a mk4 golf with a small turbo and not a lot of power.
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I Agree with what Lazy is saying about saving money. But the bad side is ebay specials with universal piping means adding more bends to the system, increasing the length boost has to travel to the inlet from turbo, also loads of extra joins in pipework using cheap silicone piping which if upping the power could result in pipes popping off all the time. This then may cause some Lag etc.
As Lazy said your paying forge for there knowledge and research but at the end of the day the kit is worth every penny. uses the standard pipework from turbo and the from pancake pipe has quick flowing pipe in the kit and from FMIC to inlet good quality silicone piping with minimum bends.
Its all down to peoples preference, if you can afford a Forge Kit or THS then go with it.
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i can understand the kit that forge do as its easier and is high quality and second to none, but you pay for it.
cant see there being much more lag because of extra piping or pipes popping off if they are fitted right. boost piping is cheap and high quality silicone joiners are cheap to. boost piping is ali so easy to cut to the length you want. just make sure you use as much ali pipe as you can and as little silicone as possible.
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I think if you don't want to check messing around with it cutting bits here and there , then you should go for the forge one , if you got time and don't mind the messing around cutting etc then go eBay, but I ve got a forge one and it spot on , as didn't want to mess with the look of the anni ,
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I think if you don't want to check messing around with it cutting bits here and there , then you should go for the forge one , if you got time and don't mind the messing around cutting etc then go eBay, but I ve got a forge one and it spot on , as didn't want to mess with the look of the anni ,
what he said :D
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you'll most likely also need the lugs for the n75 and dv feeds on the top charge pipe re-welding if you go the ebay route, it looks like bird sh!t and most of the ones i've seen leak from there.
if you're doing it yourself and can afford to take your time with it then you can get somewhere with the cheap ones... but the labour charges for getting a garage to get it fitting absolutely spot on will probably amount to the same as a forge one anyway.
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you'll most likely also need the lugs for the n75 and dv feeds on the top charge pipe re-welding if you go the ebay route, it looks like bird sh!t and most of the ones i've seen leak from there.
if you're doing it yourself and can afford to take your time with it then you can get somewhere with the cheap ones... but the labour charges for getting a garage to get it fitting absolutely spot on will probably amount to the same as a forge one anyway.
i agree the ebay "kits" are w*nk but the fmic themselves arent so bad.
as said before, if you dont want to get stuck in and chop bits and path the boost piping yourself, forge ftw!
my case was different though, so i didnt really have a choice, but im just saying it can be done and it works!