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Old Mar 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?
 
Old Mar 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.
 
Old Mar 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
 
Old Mar 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
 
Old Mar 23, 2008 | 11:37 AM
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you will deinatly loose some boost preasure
 
Old Mar 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.
 
Old Mar 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^

 
Old Mar 24, 2008 | 02:03 AM
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its just plain stupid...remove smic replace with fmic and you are good to go
 
Old Mar 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
 
Old Mar 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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