Decided to start fitting my FMIC, I did a bit each night through the week and finished it off today. Turned out to be a nightmare lol.
1st off was to remove all the chargecooler, brackets and anything else that wasn't needed anymore.
Then came the part that took quite a lot of messing, spinning the turbo housing round 180 degrees to keep the intercooler pipework as short as possible, I haven't got any pictures of it's new position as it was difficult to get any decent pictures. The problem with spinning the turbo housing is the bracket that holds the actuator in place becomes obsolete
and instead you use this bracket
The problem was this bracket was actually designed to be used with a standard turbo and with mine being a hybrid and different mounting points I had to modify the bracket.
Picture is halfway through modifying it, I had to do a fair bit more to it to get it to work, very time consuming as it was a case of trail and error, I had to fit it, remove it, take a bit more out of it and then refit it again, I only had so much material to play with so I had to be be careful not to take too much out of it.
Then I had issues with the actuator, 1st off the threads were cross threaded so I cut and removed the bad threads, it looks a right bodge effort this but it works lol. Spacers are for spacing the actuator out so it doesn't foul on the turbo housing. I'll eventually replace the actuator rod but I needed to use this one so I could get the car up and running again
Then it came to the point where I needed to mount the intercooler to the crash bar, simple task I thought until I discovered how hard the crash bar was. Nothing I had or bought would touch it, I even took to the local garage to see if they could drill it out for me, all they managed to do was snap their drill bits on it. Fortunately a mate had some drill bits from work he uses for drilling stainless steel, went through it like a hot knife through butter. lol
Mounted the crash bar back on to the car and fitted all the intercooler pipework.
I don't have any pictures of the finished article yet as it was dark when I had finished today, all I need to do is adjust the boost in the morning and the job's a gooden.