I actually agree with you, so I should add that ideally, you could do this by going through the inner fenders behind the headlamps (as the pic above seems to depict), with a rotated intake, and the turbo outlet clocked to face downwards. By doing these things, you can keep the pipes pretty short. This method would also keep the charge pipes AND the core in the coolest possible locations.In XS 7 wrote:Yes, just like the rapido intercooler, but, I am a fan of the shortest way to pipe the intercooler from the turbo and to the intake, I don't like the long pipes and lots of curves. But again that is just me.John Brennan wrote:If you look up through some of the pix, you can see that a nice, big FMIC is possible by running the pipes around the bottom sides of the rad.
There are plenty of ways to skin this cat, and much depends on your power goals, how much you want to deviate from stock, and so on.