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--> Now it's time to get out your oil feed line that was found in your oil kit. It should be the 3ft or so, skinny ss line. take one side and run it down to the oil T you just installed, and thread it into the last hole that is open. Again firmly but be careful.

--> It's your choice on how you run the line to get to your turbo's feed fitting. I choose to run the line through my intake manifold runners and over my vavle cover to my turbo. Thread it into the turbo and firmly tighten it down. Now your feed line is complete!


Step 4: Install Front Mount Intercooler
--> This step is really gonna vary depending on what intercooler you have choosen for your turbo kit. If you got the Johnny Racecar fmic, then all your gonna have to do is two holes and mount it up.
In my case, i have a larger Spearco which involves some modification of the bumper support. First thing your gonna have to do is take off the front bumper which isnt hard at all. there are 5 bolts up on the top of the radiator support which you need to remove. Their are two bolts(one on each side) within the fender wheel that hold bumper to fenders. And lastly, their are about 8 screws that hold all the splash gaurds to the bumper which you need to unscrew and pop out.

--> To do this modification, your gonna need some kind of metal cutting tool. I choose a dremel with a cut-off wheel because that's all i had in my garage. If your gonna use a dremel expect this too take 2-3hrs... I've heard of ppl using special metal recipricating saws and also hi-powered "cut-off wheels".
If you have one of those, it'd speed up the process probably, but surely aren't required. You're gonna wanna ware eye protection for this, cus little metal bits go flying everywhere!

--> I first did a test fit to see what i really needed to have cut off my bumper support to allow fitment of the fmic. I held the fmic with a jack and kinda "eye-d" what woudl be needed to cut off, marked it with a sharpie. The original test fit with bumper and no cutting showed me that my fmic was about two inches lower, so i went two inches up into the bumper support

--> Now that you marked it, you just gotta start cutting away. I found it easiest to start real softly untill you got a complete hole through a small section of the metal. Once you can fit the whole cut-off wheel through and start cutting through the metal from the side, it starts to get alittle easier. I took these pics by hitting the timer button, running over to dremel, and started cutting lol. And yes, i am taking a pic with one hands and using a dremel cut-off wheel to cut my front bumper support at the same time 


Alittle fun with the dremel lol

--> once you get all the way through all the metal, it should look something like this....


--> You now can mark where the holes on the ic mounts are in relation to the bumper support, then drill those marks out. Go buy some bolts/nuts/washers from homedepot to put in those newly drilled holes. sry no pics of it offically mounted.
Step 5: Modify Bumper to fit FMIC
--> Now that you have your fmic you can test fit your bumper again. It's not gonna fit without alittle cutting of the black grill. In my situation, it was easier to just cut the whole front grill out instead of trying to just cut some and save it. I aslo had to cut some of the side grill things out to fit my piping. Here's what it looks like when you begin....

--> Again you can use a dremel with a cut-off wheel adaptor to cut this off which works pretty good but you have to go slow cus it tends to melt from heat. You can also use a hack saw but dremel is more accurate. Once you got it all cut out, it should look like this.

here is the one-half of the side grill i had to cut out.

--> once you got it cut out, try it out and see how it looks! teh win!

--> With some of the piping on it had to cut some of the splash gaurd. this was not hard at all, just line it up, eye it where you need to cut, and use the dremel again to cut what is needed to be removed. should look something like this...
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