[s-cars] Super cheap FMIC

[Keith Maddock]

On 7/6/05, Djdawson2 at aol.com <Djdawson2 at aol.com> wrote:
> No pics, but could take some.  Cutting the bumper was accomplished with a
> Sawzall and a 8 inch metal blade.  Took about 10 minutes.  The IC was
> mounted to the bumper using 2 L brackets attached to those tabs you can see
> on the side of the IC, and then bolted to the top of the bumper.  The pipes
> were pretty easy to fabricate, but I had the benefit of a TIG to weld it all
> up. 

Some pictures of that would be great.  So to take the bumper off in
the future, you'll need to loosen up a silicon joint at each end?
   
> The biggest PITA is getting the bumper skin off of the metal bumper. 

How is it held on?

> It works way better than I expected.  You can run the piss out of the car,
> and still the outlet end tank remains cool, while you can't even touch the
> inlet side.  Pretty amazing, I thought. 
> Anyway... a good cheap mod. 

Sounds quite promising - and a few extra hp should be able to be had
by tweaking the software a bit, I would imagine.  Have you been
running the same software the whole time yet, or running an optimised
(or semi-optimised) software calibration set for each major change?

Thanks for the info Dave!

Cheers,
Keith