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anyone do FMIC installs in melb? r33 gtst?

im not talking about a shop or anything just someone to come around to give me a hand.

im just a bit sketchy of some of the info ive read of some posts on here.

Can anybody shed some light about

1. Do i have to cut anything out of my car body to fit it in?

2. Does the cooler just bolt on with brackets?

3. The just Jap FMIC doesnt have a nipple on one of the pipes that connects to some hose part of the turbo? <---- most confused by this bit

Sorry for the ignorance just don't know a whole lot about my skyline although im slowly learning after having owned it for 3 yrs lol

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If someones going to help you well need some more info. Like what kit you bought. If its the JJ stealth one you dont have to do any cutting on the chassis.

If not there will be cutting involved. You may also need to cut the rio and/or front bar. Brackets if supplied dont usually fit straight up so some improvisation is always needed.

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Why not just get their kit that goes back into the stock side piping?

Less fitment problems

Less legality problems

All round win-win

thats what im doing now, but when i bought my car we had to cut hole

its neat but now she will be welded up for good :)

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i too want to get the stealth cooler, but i don't think anyone has done an R34 install yet... and i sure as hell ain't cutting up my front bumper, that's for sure.

does mounting it low avoid potential reo cutting issues?

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i too want to get the stealth cooler, but i don't think anyone has done an R34 install yet... and i sure as hell ain't cutting up my front bumper, that's for sure.

does mounting it low avoid potential reo cutting issues?

i dont think you have to cut the reo at all

its ment to be bolt on so no cutting of anything

but its hard to knwo until you find out once someone fitted it to a 34

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I can tell you from expereince that cutting you reo is a BAD BAD idea, even if it's only shaving say 2-3cm off it. If/when you hit someone you'll totaly FCK your cooler, radiator fan, fan shroud, head light mounts, bonnet latch etc etc. That reo does a LOT of work holding everything in place, when it bends it tears shit apart.

Trust me, I know. Go and buy yourself an ARC cooler :(

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^ i was thinking the same thing, surely cutting the reo is perhaps the dodgiest thing you could do, structurally, to a car...

i'm a complete newb to FMIC but would mounting it lower perhaps avoid reo cutting issues??

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I have fitted a stealth kit with very little cutting required.

I installed one in my mates S1 33, It required the bottom section of the bumper reinforcment to be trimmed only, leaving the top section intact.

I will be installing the same kit in my brothers car in a month or so.

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sorry for the newb questions, but why exactly does the reo need to be cut? what part of the fmic is not clearing the bar?

it doesnt always have to

i had a cheap china cooler before and never had to cut the reo

so im unsure why people do have to cut it?

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I never had to cut my reinforcement bar either. The core sat nice and tight behind it. Only thing needed cutting was the standard front bar and there was a LOT to be cut out for it to fit.

Mounting the cooler lower will give you problems with the piping if you're not getting it custom made. You could always just use the standard kit piping and flip the cooler itself upside down, but then it'll be dragging on the floor. :(

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sorry for the newb questions, but why exactly does the reo need to be cut? what part of the fmic is not clearing the bar?

On an R33 the lower part of the reo covers half of the cooler, as does the front bar (S1) . The reason for cutting is to optomise air flow into the core.

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