Bluebird, you mentioned that you wanted a FMIC first and then downpipes and such, may I recommend you get the exhaust first and run the stock top mount cooler. Opening up the exhaust on my first IHI made a super fun daily driver with near instant boost building and power. Do that and a good fender well mounted air filter instead of the stock filter box will be a very noticeable increase.
1988 Turbo Coupe, Black/Black, 5 Speed, Moonroof, T3/T4, ported E6, 255LPH, Kirban, Stinger Exhaust, MGW shifter, K&N, Gillis valve, BP1.5, PIMPx, Koni's
1964 Ford Galaxie 500XL, 390 6V, Big Solid cam, Headers,3.89's, 4 Speed, Vast and fast
1960 Ford Starliner, 292 Y Block, 312 4bbl intake, headers, 3 Speed, slow and low
Kuch, I was thinking for the time being just running a cone filter at the end of the vam and when I go through with the Vam delete I make a fender mounted intake.
Brad what upper radiator hose do you have on your car? The previous owner of mine put a daycore hose on mine and its too short to fit the intercooler pipe around it.
I used two different hoses with a coupler (ICT Billet 1-1/4" to 1-1/4" Inch Hose Barb Splice Coupler Repair Fitting Adapter Connector Radiator Coolant Intercooler Heat Exchanger Fluid Designed & Manufactured in USA Bare Aluminum AN627-20A). My upper hose did not fit well under the FMIC charge pipe. I combined the hose on the car plus a GATES 21163. The hose on the car looked very different than the Gates, which RockAuto said was a replacement hose and would not work at all. The one on the car looked like a DAYCO 71555. I'm very happy with the fit now. You can see where I spliced the two here.