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carlisle pete

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Mar 25, 2006
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right as some of you know my cupra is in jabba now gettin IHI.
had it on the rollers and they have come back sayin that they think the fmic which is FORGE one is restricting the power. As you know IHI is capable of around the 350 region and am not really happy with the 319 its at now. does anyone have a bigger fmic for sale??? please!!
 
Didnt Bill say they were rated higer than that, and also wasn't he getting what you are getting, but with a Forge SMIC!

(All this is from memory btw)
 
I thought the Forge FMIC was only rated upto 300bhp. Could be wrong though :shrug: You've spent £5k just spend another £800 and get the Jabba FMIC! Ask them what kind of deal they'll do for you ;) You could sell your Forge for ~£500 I reckon.
 
Was it not a standard SMIC and a charge cooler though?? Reason I sold my Forge is due to it really only been capable of 300bhp and even then it gets hot, its not the largest of core's when it comes to 300bhp+.

At the end of the day you should have thought about this too, most big turbo applications require bigger intercoolers too. If you want the power you need to make your car the 'ideal' base car. This is why I have spent so long building mine up before booking it into anywhere!
 
well oringially i thought the forge one would be ok for the job... 07780762650 if your interested in the forge one off me! had it since june/july time
 
Was it not a standard SMIC and a charge cooler though??

Nope, only the standard SMIC, the Charge cooler was on order :)

Bill in the other thread said:
The power and boost is being restricted at this time, as I still only have the stock IC, and it cannot cope with more than the 15psi boost sustained, before heatsoak and a large pressure loss is seen. Forge IC is on order, as is a Pace Chargecooler system, before goign for more.
 
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I thought it was more to do with flow restriction and not cooling capabilities that the forge one isnt worth goin for on BT?

Cant see IHI gettin as hot running 1.2 bar, which is what i assume you'll be running on standard internals.