Hi all! ive finally fitted my fmic with forge pipes this weekend so i thought i would tell you how i did it and put up some pics. Hope you will find this useful as forge dont provide any instructions so i ended up guessing how to fit it
......but it works fine so i ive got it right.
Firstly i started out with these:
1 set of forge pipes
and a Mk4 seat ibiza 130pd (with cupra bumpers)
First thing to do is remove the bumper which involves taking out about 18 bolts/screws from, the wheel arches, under the bumper, on top of the bumper and 2 through the grill.
Then remove the crash bar, drivers headlight and old intercooler with a few bolts, and unclip the hoses.
Now you can compare the 2 and wonder why seat bother fitting the original intercooler
Now this is where the fun and games start! The bracket that fixes to the ss intercooler and the car have no obvious fixing point, but after looking a bit harder you will see that it bolts in the same place as the radiator/ac radiator. BUT theres a pannel in the way that supports the radiators so you can either take it off (very hard work) or what i did, was drill holes in it that are big enough to take the screws out, slide the bracket in and put the screws back in and finally attach the intercooler to the brackets.
As you can see its getting dark now lol, so we put the car to bed.
The next day we fitted the pipes, which to my disappointment don't fit that great because the top ones were at funny angles as some of the alloy ones seem a bit too long, but they look really cool.
Another problem we encountered was that the sensor wouldn't reach back in to the inlet pipe so we had to extend it. I used 5amp wire and connectors and its working fine.
Now you can run the car and see if all the pipes are on tight enough. Then finally fit the bumper back on. BUT it doesn't fit so some cutting is needed.
This bit is at the top and there is some further down near the towing eye.
Then last of all stand back and admire......then go for a drive!
I found that it pulls more towards 4.5k and the torque surge at 2k has been smoothed out. Definatley worth doing and should be good for a remap in summer. Hope this was useful, comments welcome!
......but it works fine so i ive got it right.
Firstly i started out with these:
1 set of forge pipes
and a Mk4 seat ibiza 130pd (with cupra bumpers)
First thing to do is remove the bumper which involves taking out about 18 bolts/screws from, the wheel arches, under the bumper, on top of the bumper and 2 through the grill.
Then remove the crash bar, drivers headlight and old intercooler with a few bolts, and unclip the hoses.
Now you can compare the 2 and wonder why seat bother fitting the original intercooler
Now this is where the fun and games start! The bracket that fixes to the ss intercooler and the car have no obvious fixing point, but after looking a bit harder you will see that it bolts in the same place as the radiator/ac radiator. BUT theres a pannel in the way that supports the radiators so you can either take it off (very hard work) or what i did, was drill holes in it that are big enough to take the screws out, slide the bracket in and put the screws back in and finally attach the intercooler to the brackets.
As you can see its getting dark now lol, so we put the car to bed.
The next day we fitted the pipes, which to my disappointment don't fit that great because the top ones were at funny angles as some of the alloy ones seem a bit too long, but they look really cool.
Another problem we encountered was that the sensor wouldn't reach back in to the inlet pipe so we had to extend it. I used 5amp wire and connectors and its working fine.
Now you can run the car and see if all the pipes are on tight enough. Then finally fit the bumper back on. BUT it doesn't fit so some cutting is needed.
This bit is at the top and there is some further down near the towing eye.
Then last of all stand back and admire......then go for a drive!
I found that it pulls more towards 4.5k and the torque surge at 2k has been smoothed out. Definatley worth doing and should be good for a remap in summer. Hope this was useful, comments welcome!
