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Old 09-05-2013, 07:45 PM
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hello everyone. I want to put a turbo kit on my 02 ws6, but i hate the way fmic's look on these cars (no offense to those who have and love them)not to mention in MA i must have a front plate... for this reason I am leaning towards a procharger kit. any ideas? any1 else with similar problems?

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didnt vortech use some sort of aftercooler?? (not 100% how those work)
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Meth kit or air to water intercooler.
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FMIC's look awesome but your choice. You can get the twin intercoolers if you want to sacrifice efficiency for looks.
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Or run no intercooler and e85 or a bunch of meth
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i kinda dont have a choice. i need to have my front plate in place or i will get pulled over every 2 blocks...
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i like the "sleeper" look as well ... as much of a sleeper as these cars can be lol
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E85 and meth.
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Originally Posted by fastbird02
didnt vortech use some sort of aftercooler?? (not 100% how those work)
It's just an air-to-water intercooler. Nothing special.

You could still run a FMIC by just ditching the fog lights or mounting it horizontally with a scoop like a few people have done. Or as others have mentioned A2W and/or Meth.
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i'm swapping for just the opposite reason, i prefer the fmic look. i just picked up a D1 procharger car with the dual 4 1/2" ic's and will be selling that. may have a fmic kit lined up and if so, waiting on pics, i'm gonna pull the trigger on it and sell the current setup. whole procharger package has under 2000 miles on it and you don't even see it! it's slick, but i wanna stand out a little more.

shameless pics.......LOL

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How much power you trying to make and what fuel? If wanting sub 800rwhp and not running junk gas then the twin ic's will work fine for you.
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front facing license plates could kiss my ***. glad that stuff is not prevalent here. whatever keeps it cool is a good thing. you should see the LT1 guys with FMIC ....now that's ugly.
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I would try a Air to Water with a large (12+ gallon) ice tank, and you could also do a heat exchanger.
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A2W setup with a decent sized tank, and depending on how much power/boost you're making a heat exchanger (mini radiator) for it. This is my plan once I go boost; no good way to make a 93-97 Formula look good with a FMIC; but there is TONS of room for a large A2W intercooler there.
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i have had my front plate in my window for years,i refuse to put one on,if anything mount it under the front clip,how do you not like the way a fmic looks? you must be new lol



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