I am running a stock cam. I have been testing the VE tables I think for you NA guys (like being boosted is a special class...LOL) may be able to get gains by adjusting that table. Mitsu tunes the cars for fuel efficiency so those tables are set for such.

 

I went ahead and purchased the 100 & 120 millimeter hex bolts along with the appropriate spacers, so now I have four options, the 80 millimeter, the 100, 120 and 130 millimeter bolts. I also did some extra trimming from the front clip, and repositioned the license plate over towards the driver side. What I am probably going to have to do is remove those vertical supports, which divide the fog lights from the front grill, in order to make room for the IC pipes. Oh, and I'm back to sporting the "interfooler"...

 

don't remove those verticval supports, the bottom lip of the bumper would become extremely flimsy...

 

This is with 100mm bolts and 1" spacers...still fighting room against the bottom lip and vertical supports...




I might have to trim away some of the vertical side of the supports, which won't affect the integrity nor aesthetics too much, to create more room. Hold on, I could use 45 degree couplers on the ends of the intercooler that would clear those vertical supports! I might have to modify the piping bends a bit but I think that might be the ticket.

 

why can't you mount it closer to the rad?

 

I'm asking myself the same question and for now I'm coming up with, that i have the tranny cooler mounted there.

 

Wouldnt it be easier to relocate the tranny cooler either in front of the intercooler or behind one of the fog lights and cut some vent holes into the fog bezel?

 

Before I moved the cooler up front, i had it mounted in the driver wheel well, with the foglight bezel cutout, which worked fine, but... this will hinder the UICP as it wraps around the crashbar, so i moved it. Time will tell, but I measured the angle from the IC and a 45° coupler will clear the vertical supports. I will just have to turn the end of the charge pipe from a 90 degree to a 45 degree bend.

 

This should work:

 

you'll then need an accute bend on the other side...

 

 

look at it this way, you need to make 180° total... could be a smooth 180° bend, could be two 90° bends, or if you suggest a 45° (measured at the outside of the bend) from the intercooler which when measured internally is 135°, which is an obtuse angle, now to make that 180° total, you need 135° external, which is 45° internal which is an accute angle, moving air (or gases) don't like tight bends...

 

this is a poor "shopped" rendition but the LICP would look like this...



Question: Does a 90 degree coupler connect the lower IC pipe with the turbo?

 

that may not work with the spacing...take some measurement, you may not have enough room to go 45-45-90...

 

Question:

Does a 90 degree coupler connect the lower IC pipe with the turbo nozzle?