Pro's:
-Appears to do it's job. Definately better air flow. Noticed my max boost went up another .3 lbs max boost. I have the Dmann 93 Octane w/ ETS CAI tune and peak boost was 18.1 and now it's 18.5 on the car. Cobb AP states 19.09 lbs peak boost where it was 18.1 previously. Temperature drop is about 3 degrees less than stock TMIC.
-Came in a very nice box.
-You can hook a boost or temperature sensor to it.
-Amongst ETS and Perrin; it is the cheaper option.
-Took me 40 minutes total to install. The shroad install takes the longest time to complete. About 30 minutes (But more on this in the Con's section) The intercooler took 10 minutes to install.
- Might be in my head but throttle response does seem a smidge better.
Con's:
-Randomly showed up on my door step with only one notice stating it was delivered.
-Build quality isn't the greatest. I bought the black version and all the little dents and imperfections are very noticeable. My main concern was the main facing has a very noticeable dent but it certainly doesn't affect how it works in anyways.
-No stickers... Like what company doesn't provide stickers nowadays. I wouldn't put them on my car but I do have a drawer full of stickers from every performance company I have purchased from. What gives Mishimoto? Spent too much money on a cool box to ship it in but no stickers.
-The pop rivets for the shroad didn't include anything to fasten to. I literally ripped off all the pop rivets thinking the ones they included were complete replacements but they aren't. Now I gotta buy after market pop rivets because the ones I had laying around barely work. This is my biggest complaint and really pissed me off. The big ones included had backings to them but the little ones are litterally just a rivet with two pieces of plastic that don't grip onto anything. Subimods can we somehow find out if that's how it was suppose to come?
-No instuctions included to install but their Youtube video was easy to follow.
Conclusion:
Despite the imperfections and the rivets being completely useless to me, it appears to do its job. Honestly, I don't see the sense in speading $1,000 on a TMIC just as much as I don't see any sense in speading $300 for a charge pipe when all that is just a tube of aluminum. ETS would be the way to go for sure but I'm only going to be droping serious money if someday I want to build a car over 500 hp and if I do I'd certainly dish out the money for an ETS FMIC. As long as this Mishimoto TMIC does it's job, I still find it being a good deal. My goal is to have a street car that's fun to drive and around 400hp after a protune so a TMIC upgrade is exactly what I'd need for that kind of power. IMO, people buying FMIC on cars that don't have +500hp and don't track their car are wasting their money. This TMIC isn't the prettiest on the market but it seems to work just fine so far.
