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Old 03-23-2008, 10:26 AM
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OK I'm getting ready to put on my ebay FMIC and my uncle asked me, could we use the FMIC and the SMIC? Any thoughts or experience on this?
 
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Old 03-23-2008, 10:29 AM
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First time I've ever heard of that, only thing I can think of is it might reduce flow keeping it there.
 
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Old 03-23-2008, 10:33 AM
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i guess you could, but i would think that the extra air volume might cause you to lose some boost pressure
 
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Old 03-23-2008, 11:29 AM
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i say give it a shot, you can always remove it later. but do keep us posted
 
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Old 03-23-2008, 11:37 AM
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you will deinatly loose some boost preasure
 
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Old 03-23-2008, 11:38 AM
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Agreed with viper - I think you'd end up with pressure loss across the two cores, and probably a slower response. You could achieve the same cooling effect with a high-quality, efficient large FMIC and not run into hassles with space and running the plumbing.
 
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Old 03-23-2008, 02:23 PM
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Agreed with viper - I think you'd end up with pressure loss across the two cores, and probably a slower response. You could achieve the same cooling effect with a high-quality, efficient large FMIC and not run into hassles with space and running the plumbing.

agree with that^

 
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Old 03-24-2008, 02:03 AM
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its just plain stupid...remove smic replace with fmic and you are good to go
 
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Old 03-24-2008, 03:00 AM
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fmic alone will be plenty sufficient. you'll lose quite a bit of boost running both
 
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Old 03-24-2008, 04:08 AM
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The air will only be restricted; the effects of the FMIC wouldn't be amplified by the additional SMIC (****, it hardly does anything in the first place! How is it going to cool already cooled air?)
 


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