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hey guys just need help with one thing (sorry for being a newb) but i'm trying to find a hose to connect to my boost controller, it's that hose that's meant to come off the stock intercooler. thing is i have an fmic installed and there's no hose that comes off from it, any ideas which hose i can tpiece it off to connect to the boost controller?

*pic of which hose would be a great deal of help.

-thanks

you can tee it into the hose to the bov (hook it in using a T piece and a second piece of hose and not just stick the controller in the middle of the hose) but that isn't ideal. the best way is to get a nipple installed into the cooler piping, preferably on the pipe from the turbo to the cooler.

did you just install the cooler, or was it on there when you got the car? if it was already on there, find where the wastegate is currently getting it's pressure reading from (follow the hose from the wastegate back to where it joins either the cooler piping or the plenum) and put your controller in there

you can tee it into the hose to the bov (hook it in using a T piece and a second piece of hose and not just stick the controller in the middle of the hose) but that isn't ideal. the best way is to get a nipple installed into the cooler piping, preferably on the pipe from the turbo to the cooler.

did you just install the cooler, or was it on there when you got the car? if it was already on there, find where the wastegate is currently getting it's pressure reading from (follow the hose from the wastegate back to where it joins either the cooler piping or the plenum) and put your controller in there

yeah the cooler was already there when i got my car, that's what i tried before (t-piecing the hose for the bov) the problem was it was overboosting so i was thinking that it was the wrong connection, what i've read so far is that the best connection is the compressor housing, can't really see with the heat shield being there, i've also read somewhere that you don't have to take the heat shield off to connect it, can you confirm that for me?

-thanks.

the r33 has no nipple on the turbo as far as i know (i have never seen one and i have pulled a stock turbo off) but i have seen people put them into the stock turbo (also some other turbos come with them fitted from factory). however i would just have one fitted to the cooler pipe that runs from the turbo to the cooler. when i first put on my front mount i was using the hose from the plenum to the bov and had spiking issues. then i put a nipple in the "hot pipe" as i refer to it and never had any issues with boost spiking again (well at least any that weren't caused by a faulty controller)

the r33 has no nipple on the turbo as far as i know (i have never seen one and i have pulled a stock turbo off) but i have seen people put them into the stock turbo (also some other turbos come with them fitted from factory). however i would just have one fitted to the cooler pipe that runs from the turbo to the cooler. when i first put on my front mount i was using the hose from the plenum to the bov and had spiking issues. then i put a nipple in the "hot pipe" as i refer to it and never had any issues with boost spiking again (well at least any that weren't caused by a faulty controller)

sweet thanks for that, will try it this weekend. A friend suggested that, was just seeing if there were any other alternatives but from the sound of your setup should be sweet.

-thanks

  • 1 month later...

I drilled a hole in the side of the fmic piping, and then tapped a hole for the nipple to screw into. Works fine for me.

@mad082, you mentioned that its preferable to screw it into the pipe between the turbo and the intercooler. I did it in the pipe from the fmic to the engine. What exactly are the downsides to how i did it? I only picked where i did because i figured it would be a more accurate gauge of the pressure going into the engine.

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