[snorky]

i would grind the welds to try to save the bracket so you can just reposition it. buying stock from a hardware store and modifying it to hold works. but imo like i said before, every time i see it, it looks ghetto.

[V8Huntr]

Ok so I got the bracket problem taken care of. I broke out the MIG welder and went to Home Depot and got some steel. After a lot of bending, cutting, and welding I have a bracket for it. So I didn't have to hack up the TMIC itself.

But now my problem is that it seems like the Y-Pipe is too short. Where the coupler attaches to the turbo seems like it needs to be about 1 inch longer. I've been reading about people having to extend the Y-Pipe and I think that's what I need to do. Anyone with an EBay TMIC have to do that?

[layza4sti]

use your stock y-pipe also make sure you port your y-pipe inlet.

[wesley1202]

we have the same problem . i bought the same tmic as yours . i have a 2007 wrx and i still have not used the tmic because of the 2 side brackets and the y pipe was short and the tmic hits the throttle body. am pist off with this . so if you can help me on what you have done alredy i would appreciate it ...

[V8Huntr]

Do you have the Drive By Wire throttle body? If so then you have to take off the lip on the TMIC outlet. This is what it looks like now. Oh yea I put the STi logo on it yesterday.






With that lip cut off it gave me enough clearance to get the driver's side bracket lined up and mounted. The problem was that I had to fab my own bracket for the passenger side. I got some steel from Home Depot and after a few hours of measuring, cutting, and welding I have a bracket. It looks like crap but you can't see it when the TMIC is on.

If you have a WRX you might want to take a look at this thread on Nabisco:
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=825869

[JuniorRSX]

nice STI logo! can you put up pics of it intalled on the car?

[V8Huntr]

The TMIC is still sitting on my floor right now. I've been working on a few other things and haven't had time to wrestle this thing back in place again. But I'll post up pics once I get it back in.

[bluedemon_II]

Any updates? Im thinking of buying a top mount from ebay but dont know from ho will I buy it.

Would like to see the pic's of the intercooler instaled

[boost_happy]

Originally Posted by WRC~06~STi

yeah man that would be a good idea to get it plasma'd off but make sure it's someone you know does good work, b/c you don't want them cutting into the actual cooling part of the IC. but it would be easy to cut that off and move it, reweld it in the right place. good luck

When I heard the words plasma off and intercooler in the same sentance I started to cringe. Ooooo, not a good idea, unless you want to see what a whole bunch of melted coke cans looks like.

[RAS_STI]

Originally Posted by V8Huntr

PWND!

[ESSTEAEYE]

Originally Posted by V8Huntr

Ok so I got the bracket problem taken care of. I broke out the MIG welder and went to Home Depot and got some steel. After a lot of bending, cutting, and welding I have a bracket for it.

Mig welding steel to aluminum? Huh?

[V8Huntr]

Originally Posted by ESSTEAEYE

Mig welding steel to aluminum? Huh?

No I made a bracket out of steel which the TMIC bolted to on the left side.

Sorry I didn't post up any pics of this installed. I just got done taking it out for good actually. This TMIC was ok while it was installed, saw a few good gains from it, but was making my car run too rich. I was getting a lot of backfiring and I could smell a hint of fuel in the exhaust gases.

IMHO I would never buy one of these things again! It was a PITA to install and needed a lot of fab work to get it to fit properly. I wish I would've just bought an APS and been done with it. I guess you get what you pay for....