I purchased a TDR kit but would like to change the intercooler/charge piping that is used. I am planning to use the fab9 350hp FMIC and I am trying to figure out how to sort the hot side charge piping. For those of you that have installed a Rotrex kit and have gone the custom FMIC route how did you work out the hot side? I have tried to search and find pictures of how people have routed the charge piping and have come up with three possible ideas but I am not sure what would work or what would be best.
FYI I will be retaining AC.
1) some of the turbo builds have cut a larger hole behind the passenger side headlight and routed charge piping through there and down to the FMIC
2) leave the rotrex clocked as is, route the charge piping straight towards the front of the car, and then go down and around the rad
3) re-clock the rotrex to point the outlet straight down and route the charge piping down towards the front of the car like most of the turbo kits (I could then possibly use the FM hot side silicone pipe?)
I would ideally like to do #3 but I am not sure if there is space to do that with AC?

 

Hopefully @jtt can chime in here

we did exactly that and the charge pipes ended up like this. we also got rid of the ac

 

I had the similar issue. With the ac, I kept the silicone elbow with the original tdr kit and routed 2inch pipe to go in front of the ac compressor, behind the tdr rotrex oil cooler, and to a 2inch to 2.5 coupled to the fmic.
As twibs mentioned, we swapped the pipe for 2.5 inch and clocked the rotrex straight down. So much less complicated.

 

I am almost sure there's no way to clock it straight down and retain A/C (although I would love to do that exact thing on mine).

 

Thanks guys, seems like my suspicion was right and I will need to stick with #2 while retaining AC.
I bought my TDR kit with the charge piping with the intention of cannibalizing it, particularly the tight bend piece that comes right off the compressor.
I appreciate the pics!

 

Does anyone have a pic of what it looks like w/o A/C and clocked downwards?

 

I found a picture in this thread:
https://www.miataturbo.net/superchar...rcooler-99360/