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So who wants to come help me fit my FMIC today? :D

I'll let you check out my cute french exchange student! Hehe

Nah, in all seriousness me and a few friends are going to try to fit my Blitz LM cooler via Abo Bobs instructions. Could be a very interesting day, I'll make sure to take lots of photos of all my phuck ups.

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Kaleen

Trying to suss out a few bits and pieces but pretty sure this is acheivable. Just have to get my lazy friends out of bed.

Hey, I live in kaleen, where abouts? i might pop around. I'm installing my FMIC next week (so long as it arrive) and would like a practice

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Thanks for the offer Terminal.

Ended up getting a few of the mates around and sorted it out.

Was quite an adventure for me as I have never attempted something quite so extravagant before. Ended up using Abo Bobs instructions but decided I wanted mine higher up in the bar so that the return pipe wasn't so low (Blitz LM kit) so I had to do some errrr "alterations" to the front bar support. I've never seen so many people interested in getting an angle grinder near my car.

Ended up getting it to fit brilliantly with only a few little hiccups along the way. Firstly I had to shorten the transmission cooler hoses as they were in the road. When I put them back on to the cooler one had a small hole leaking a bit of fluid which was a temporary setback. The return pipe also sits a tiny bit below the stone tray/underguard so it got a bit of a trim.

I'm quite impressed with seat of pants results so far. Car seems smoother and doesn't heat soak anymore. Hopefully I pick up a bit of fuel economy. From what I understand a GT-T won't really pick up any power gain from a FMIC and my boost is already high enough as is. Weird thing is I don't really notice any introduced lag, still on full boost by 3000-32000 rpm and I also haven't seen the boost drop at all, was thinking it might drop by 1 or so psi due to pressure drop across the cooler.

Oh and my advice for next weekend Terminal, get a few friends and tell them it could take quite a while (make sure you supply the beer, but also make sure its drunk AFTER you finish). It's not that complicated to do it's just test fitting and re-fitting and fiddling around that takes up lots of time. I figured I didn't want to pay someone to butcher my front bar support I'd rather do it myself and save $200. I also get the satisfaction that I managed to do it myself.

And as for the pictures, unfortunately my french exchange student was going to the national museum so that got priority :cheers:. I will take a few tomorrow. Still not sure how I'm going to remove the big airflow hindrance that is the license plate holder.

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