If the parts are already in storage, what money are you wasting?

Sorry.. had to

I know you love your SMIC's, and honestly in a daily driver that NEVER sees any kind of competitive use, by all means do whatever it is that makes you happy. It shouldn't be about whether the SMIC will perform better or not; who cares? It's a street car, turn the boost up if you think it's slow.

But at the same time.. you shouldn't let the fact that the cops and "the homies" react a certain way to FMICs dictate whether or not you run one

All my friends call my intercooler a radiator. Lol.

Thing of the past? Yeah it's old news but it still works. So why forget about them? If I had my choice I'd have a Dejon super side mount for the 1g as well (since that's what I'm running on the 2g). Was buying one when I was looking, but the deal fell through. Finding one is hell though since Dejon went out of business and most current owners don't know what it is, and both ADX and Alamo (other 2 manufacturers for smics) are a bit too bulky for my taste. They work, it's just that people couldn't justify putting X amount of money on one purposely built for the car when they could buy a cheap chinese FMIC kit from ebay for the same price.

Not to mention a lot of DSMers are bit by the "buy bigger so won't have to upgrade it again later" bug with injectors/turbos/intercooler/dsmlink. Which I'm all for if you actually do ramp up the performance to that stage one day, but most don't. So it's wasted money.

Besides, that way I make use of the bumper vents as this was the original idea from the manufacturers. You'll also note that I already have a vacuum created by the wheel right behind it which helps suck air through it. Again, intended by the engineers when they developed it.

You know me, I have parts up the wazoo so chances are I'd have anything and everything anyway. But who's to day I'm not going to sell them soon once I'm happy with what I have? I buy in quantity...which my wallet hates me for but I like being able to go: "well...that'd be fun to try...oh...here's one in a box lets give it a go:

The last one is just an added benefit, the 2g already gets too much attention so making the 1g look like a granny car is it's complete opposite. The cf will be painted when I get a chance in case you're wondering.

I guess it does make sense for a daily to stick to SMIC's. Given, we all have a different opinion on what a daily should be .

^ Ding Ding We have a winner I also hate cutting my car up to make things fit (which almost all FMICs require). I like keeping my cars minty. The Supra Sidemount only required a small incision on the bumper bottom lip (and a bumper is easily replaced if I ever wish to make it a perfect OEM car one day). Structurally, the steel on the car is untouched

You need new friends

Lol. They're just 110% clueless about cars.

When I had to choose between a fmic and a smic for sandras 1g.. I looked at labour. Alot of work needed to be done the front end of her car to fit the fmic. Between cutting the front bumper steel, removeing AC lines, oowersteering lines, clearing out pathways for IC pipes. Then comparing that to the supra sidemount. It was a no brainer. A I did was remove some material from the section above the stock IC. And the supra IC fit right up with a few braces. The Ic pipes will cost about the same... But the supra core is usally half the price of the cheapest FMIC. So money wise it was better for me aswell. People have ran 400+ h cars with out heatsoak, so it should be more then adaquate for most of our daily drivers. Would I run it on my 2g? prolly not... But I plan on making awsome numbers with out ever using meth. So I will needas muh intercooler as I cget.

Got a lid and some eyes on it.



With my Honda!

Stance nation, bros!

Like the mods Lucian, deja vue for me

Turns out it is possible to remove the water pipe without removing the belt....but the turbo, water lines and radiator need to be taken out

Finally have access to this bolt...and it will DIE!

Also found out some bolts weren't torqued right.



Time to Drill!

Isn't it more work to just pull the cold side than it is to just pull the turbo?

It's actually not hard...just long. Plus I kept the manifold attached to save me some headache in case a bolt breaks. This also gave me an opportunity to give the turbo a once-over hot/cold side. Water pipe is also completely cleaned, including the water line going to the water/oil cooler.

I just didn't want to remove any belts, that was my main focus as I don't have cash for new belts/water pump right now and they work presently.

It also doesn't help that my water line had the bolt blocking the turbo water passage. Which of course is a B*TCH to get at and you need to as it blocks the pipe to the block if you don't.

Should take off the manifold, frees up a lot of room.

Didn't see that you wanted to avoid breaking a bolt. Don't be shy, use lots of penetrating oil and crack them free. Longer they stay in, more chance they will seize.

nah I'd need more room perpendicular to the block, so I'd need to break my radiator support My hand drill is BIG! I have the space to drill, just not enough for my hand drill, to try the reverse drill bit thing (as I'm more toquy than my drill :p)

I've also drilled out broken bolts stepping up the drill bit sizes, as long as you're perfectly center, you will eventually weaken the broken bolt where the threads were seized. It will turn out at that point.

That was the plan, until I noticed my dad stole my drill bit set and went to the cottage with them....

Only had a couple sizes here and, of course, not the ones I need to enlarge the hole.

I have a few titanium ones you can borrow. Still have that new drill bit smell

Nevermind lol

Out with the car today, beautiful driving weather.

Stopped by my parents chip stand in Carp, ON.



Mmmm poutine!

Me - 1
Bolt - 0! NAHAHAHA



Managed to save just enough thread from the original bolt to re-use it. That original bolt was glued/welded in by the looks of it. Tried easy-outs/reverse drill bit/heat/cold/unseize products...the works, nothing got to it. So drilled as much as I could, and used my dremel with a grinding bit for the rest

Thanks to Bryan for his drill bit lending abilities (although I ended up buying some hardcore zirconium tipped ones since I was at CT anyway). So yours are still brand spanking new

I also made sure to clean every part I took off, the water pipe was disgusting like most of the pipes for that matter. Now all I need to do is put everything back together, pray that the used alt I put in is good and she should be good for new tires and some tarmac!



Also....Mike your parents make poutine? hmmmm I may want to visit

I stated before that DSMs are dead in LA...i was very wrong

It all changed on the night of June 16th 2014...i joined LA DSM club & attended my first meet












LADSMers insisted i switch to E85 ASAP so they hooked me up with this toy



My next project is flex fuel conversion using ^ GM sensor. More updates coming soon!

Looks like some nice cars out there!

Remember how hard it is to get E85 in Canada! I encourage you to try it out but just make sure you have the ability to go back to gasoline in case you want to come up to the great white

Thats why he's got the flex fuel sensor

Ah yes, I think I heard you Link boys talking about that recently

Lets you switch on the fly. ECMLink guys tested it by pouring e85 into their car while it was running. Automatically adjusted. I'm definitely picking one up before the shootout.

yep that's the game plan

http://www.ecmtuning.com/wiki/ethanolsupport?s[]=e85

G - I think that bolt gets at least 0.5. If it took that long to get it out

Just razzing. But good job!

And Alex, WTF.. You're a DSM whore. when are you heading up to Canada next?

k fine, it gets 0.5

You missed it I was there in May

Damn. Too bad. Could have had another Sunday brunch meet.

Competed in my first SSPA event yesterday, car didn't perform as well as I hoped, but I did run 11.91 @ 119 and made it into the semi finals, being eliminated a trailer queen/tin can Civic that ran 10.63. Still a very fun day and car made it home in one piece

Think you could have run a 10 if your bushings did go kaput?

I doubt it, I've done all my tuning in the evenings after work when it's been between 10-15C out and it was almost 30 out there on Sunday, car wasn't liking that so much and I had to pull some timing during the first couple test passes.

I've also got to swap out my 7gph meth nozzle for the 10gph when I find the time.

I my 10gph, zero knock at 30psi and reasonable iat's.. Thanks for the suggestion Jay.

I want