AVO Turboworld Intercooler Front Mount Intercooler w/ Black Piping - 05-09 Legacy GT/

Street Version Front Mount Intercooler Kit [LGT]

The intercooler core for this kit is 2 1/2" thick. The intercooler, piping and silicon components are all in Black colour. There is no modification to the front bumper bar reinforcement required.

Heat is the enemy. Heat saps performance, reduces engine life, and in extreme cases, can kill your motor. The AVO Front Mount Intercooler is the solution. Whenever you turn up the boost to get more power out of your turbocharged vehicle, increased amounts of heat and pressure is generated. One of the biggest bottlenecks is tiny and cheaply made stock intercooler. And even upgraded top mount intercoolers can quickly reach their flow limits, and suffer from heat-soak, an unavoidable situation created by the TMIC sitting on top of a hot engine while the car is not moving. The best answer to both problems is a front mounted intercooler. Back pressure in the system is lowered because of the larger intercooler core design made possible by the space available in the front of the car. And heat soak is not a problem as the FMIC is not sitting on top of a hot engine!

It is a little more complicated than that, though. You cannot simply throw any front mount intercooler onto your car. As a FMIC was not part of the original car design, space is very tight. AVO spent countless hours in R&D engineering the correct cast aluminium end tanks and aluminium piping. This was all so that you could retain your original foglights on your Legacy with a minimum of trimming on the inside of the bumper. Piping to and from the turbo and throttle were kept to as short a length as possible as well.

You can see the results here. Not only does the AVO FMIC allow you to keep your foglights, but with our included bumper beam spacers, allows you to keep your bumper beam as well. The cutaway photograph above shows the placement of the FMIC and hoses, and also shows the bumper beam as fitted with the FMIC. As you can see below, tolerances were quite tight in engineering the fit of this FMIC. The time and effort was worth it, as it has minimized any performance compromises and kept installation as simple as possible.

Applied Models:

Legacy GT sedan: 2004-2009 [2.0 & 2.5-liter turbocharged]
Legacy GT wagon: 2004-2009 [2.0 & 2.5-liter turbocharged]
Legacy Spec B: 2004-2009 [2.0 & 2.5-liter turbocharged]
Legacy Outback: 2004-2009 [2.0 & 2.5-liter turbocharged]

Impreza WRX: 2008-2014 [2.5-liter turbocharged]
Forester XT: 2009-2013 [2.5-liter turbocharged]