The CS Front mount is good and tidily-made but the instructions are only fair to average and you need to hold your mouth right to get parts to fit in tight places. The TB inlet pipe needed modifying in mine as they had a stupid tapered end-piece to handle the diameter step-down, which I converted to a straight end. The CS kit also replaces the existing IC with an air-box and pancake filter which works well with the existing ram intakes under the bonnet lip. I've had zero issues with it, apart from the consequences of handling all the boosted air in the long piping. My boost air temps are way lower than with the stock TMIC. The bar and plate is infinitely more robust than a tube and fin type of core. The FMIC units are heavy and can get a lot of bounce being way up front if not properly mounted with vibration damping.
There are plenty of FMIC setups I've seen where the existing air filter is retained. However, I'd always run an SRI with a pod air filter and get rid of all that OEM airbox and resonator clutter, to improve engine bay space and more importantly to augment the improved breathing from having a new larger diameter cleaner-flowing TIP which should come with most FMIC kits.
I'd forget CAI's in such circumstances. Why stress over a few degrees of much vaunted "SRI heat soak" (which I view as pretty academic anyway), run a long convoluted pipe for a CAI through the hole in the LH side of the engine bay that you've just tidied up by removing the air-box and resonator, just to have the chance of ingesting water in heavy rain or puddles, when your FMIC is going to cool your intake air anyway?
Last edited by Doug_MPS6; 13-10-2011 at 04:26 PM.
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