To FMIC, or not? VF48 turbo.
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To FMIC, or not? VF48 turbo.
So i've been wanting to go for a more sleeper look and lose the hood scoop. Now's a good time since I the car's going to paint and am sure it wouldn't be too hard to find a scoopless hood.
But here's the dilemma. I have a vf48 on my 07 wrx. I hear that going with a FMIC on this small of a turbo results in huge lag. On the other hand, I hear the lag is very minimal and the increased power is nice along with less heat soak. I don't drive hard. Just use my car as a DD. I'm moving to so-cal to, so it will be fairly warm most of the time and definitely in stop-and-go traffic.
So I wanted your guy's (especially tuners...please chime in) input on if it's worthwhile.
And the fmic I would get is a Perrin from a friend of mine and I think it has afta-maf.
TIA!!!
But here's the dilemma. I have a vf48 on my 07 wrx. I hear that going with a FMIC on this small of a turbo results in huge lag. On the other hand, I hear the lag is very minimal and the increased power is nice along with less heat soak. I don't drive hard. Just use my car as a DD. I'm moving to so-cal to, so it will be fairly warm most of the time and definitely in stop-and-go traffic.
So I wanted your guy's (especially tuners...please chime in) input on if it's worthwhile.
And the fmic I would get is a Perrin from a friend of mine and I think it has afta-maf.
TIA!!!
Last edited by snowflow; 06-12-2011 at 04:40 PM.
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OP I ran a FMIC with my stock turbo for about a year+ and there was hardly any lag. In fact there was LESS lag on super hot days because I didn't have a heatsoaking TMIC sitting under the hood.
Just don't get a monstrous one and you will be fine. I would just get the scoop delete over a scoopless hood however, you still want to get that hot air out of there instead of trapping it inside.
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Then you are doing it wrong.
OP I ran a FMIC with my stock turbo for about a year+ and there was hardly any lag. In fact there was LESS lag on super hot days because I didn't have a heatsoaking TMIC sitting under the hood.
Just don't get a monstrous one and you will be fine. I would just get the scoop delete over a scoopless hood however, you still want to get that hot air out of there instead of trapping it inside.
OP I ran a FMIC with my stock turbo for about a year+ and there was hardly any lag. In fact there was LESS lag on super hot days because I didn't have a heatsoaking TMIC sitting under the hood.
Just don't get a monstrous one and you will be fine. I would just get the scoop delete over a scoopless hood however, you still want to get that hot air out of there instead of trapping it inside.
The perrin one is fairly small looking. Doesn't even take up the whole grille and is stealthy black.
Ya, I understand about getting the hot air out, but I do have pretty good heat-shielding under the hood...as well as heat wrapped headers/uppipe and phenolic spacers to keep the manifold cooler. I really don't like the idea of having open mesh letting water dump into my engine bay.
Would be cool to reverse the manifold if it's not too difficult to have shorter piping.
Not doing this for performance gains so spending more money on another tmic is out of the question as I don't need to spend so much on a new one then a new tune just for a little performance gain.
I may get a bigger turbo, one day, so maybe I should get this fmic. Hmmm
Last edited by snowflow; 06-13-2011 at 10:55 AM.