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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: ggggolfgti on 20 September 2010, 21:59

Title: FMIC today, couple Q's
Post by: ggggolfgti on 20 September 2010, 21:59
fitted  intercooler today the ebay one!! bout a map sensor mount from forge, was expecting fitting to be worse than what it was, had to cut one of the alloy pipes though.

i drilled through the cross bar and bolted cooler straight to it, the bumper is definatley not going to go back on no matter how much i cut, (without cuttin the face of bumper)

didnt need to remove washer bottle

are the R32 bumpers abit more spacious? do they stick out foward more than the standard one???
 
Title: Re: FMIC today, couple Q's
Post by: Dan_GTI on 20 September 2010, 22:10
have you cut the recess into the crash bar?

like so....

(http://www.esetuning.com/v/vspfiles/assets/images/fmintmk4_pic2.jpg)
Title: Re: FMIC today, couple Q's
Post by: tech1889 on 20 September 2010, 22:13
The ebay ones dont fit like that.. they sit under the crossmember
Title: Re: FMIC today, couple Q's
Post by: ggggolfgti on 21 September 2010, 19:52
it fits under the cross member, its inline with the cross member (dosent stick out past it)

how much more room do you have with the r32 bumper??
Title: Re: FMIC today, couple Q's
Post by: tech1889 on 21 September 2010, 22:32
you shouldnt need to butcher the front bumper that much mate.. have you moved the cross member or anything ?? you get quite a bit more room with r32 bumper and they would require no trimming really but at like £250+ a secondhand bumper they not cheap..
Title: Re: FMIC today, couple Q's
Post by: jamie16v on 22 September 2010, 20:03
weld a bit of flat bar to the cross member and mount the intercooler further back, thats what i should have done.. might do it at some point in life..
heres what i did, by the way, the first pics are with the intercooler mounted upside down!
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=151099.0

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=151099.msg1395344#msg1395344
Title: Re: FMIC today, couple Q's
Post by: jonnyturbo on 22 September 2010, 21:12
The r32 front bumper weather its genuine or a replica requires trimming. Well I got ths fmic and had to trim some of my rep bumper. Topher had forge fmic and he has had to trim his  genuine r32 front bumper