No more heat soak for me....

[pondside36]

Got my AWE FMIC in the mail the other day after a few months of being very patient... thanks to John Voss over at AWE for keeping me posted along the way.. Now I just need to install it...

[aaaudiprotein]

Nice, congrats!!!
Papachristou is coming.. wait...:)))

[absolutegtr]

Why the wait for so long?

[J3RR3L]

he just started to mod the car...nice upgrade

[pondside36]

Like every other company too much demand prior to summer... so they were fabbing them up and shipping them out as they were done.

[Papachristou]

great choice... you will be happy with the results! huge difference in available power and you shouldnt get any more heatsoak either (which you already know) i felt more power with the FMIC than with my neuspeed exhaust and test pipe

[pondside36]

Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to it.. I have a test pipe in the trunk to so I'll have as they say the bullet proof +1 setup... :)

[Papachristou]

get a TIP to match and you will be set! my 1+ is fully done, it needs to be replaced with a BIG TURBO now.

i beat a few cars last night that suprised the hell out of me!

[pondside36]

I have a Forge Tip, Fast Intentions Test Pipe, AWE Exhaust, Evoms Intake..and GIAC FX.. getting excited as the FMIC is right behind the couch.. :)

[Dolphin18T]

Excellent FMIC!! I just installed mine and i'm very satisfied.

[pondside36]

^^^ Everything line up pretty easily?

[Maverick]

you are a busy man, lol!

[Dolphin18T]

^^^ Everything line up pretty easily?

More or less. Just be sure you have a Dremel ready to trim the underside of the bumper and possibly around the right fog light. Nothing too bad though. What are you doing about your power steering cooler?

[gdawg'05a4]

Very nice! I got my RaceTec FMIC yesterday afternoon and by 9pm it was installed heh. Took about 4 hours.

[pondside36]

Good stuff... and you already did some logs.. now I feel like a slacker..
I'm going to just pull the power steering cooler up as suggested and add the pad Martini noted in his install.

you are a busy man, lol!

I'm not messing around.. I wasn't kidding about more to come.. I would of bought the grills for the bumper but the money for this was already set aside for when it was ready since there was a waiting list..

[gdawg'05a4]

Haha! Get to it

Yeah, just pull the PS cooler up. You can see in my first pic it's right next to the FMIC, pointing upwards.

[Dolphin18T]

I went for the 034 PS cooler. I think it looks a little neater. But then again... who's looking in there anyways...?

[pondside36]

Nice.. I'll have to check that out..

[Dolphin18T]

Here's a link to it:

http://www.034motorsport.com/product...roducts_id=710

[pondside36]

So got motivated today and installed the FMIC.. everything went really smooth until I went to put the front bumper back on.. oh well the first time is always a little rough.. lol..





It got dark when I finished so I'll post more during the day soon..

[Maverick]

good work!

[AudiA4_20T]

looks good pete

[pondside36]

Thanks.. recognize the parking lot, Clint? I was getting all sorts of comment since they are working on the pier..

[gdawg'05a4]

Very nice!

[junkie1.8TQ]

looks great... man i wish i had money.

[AudiA4_20T]

Thanks.. recognize the parking lot, Clint? I was getting all sorts of comment since they are working on the pier..

lol Yea Id love a parking lot like that

[Dolphin18T]

What happened with the bumper??

[pondside36]

^^^ I was doing the install on my own so after putting everything together, radiator support, pipes all lined up, I went to put the bumper cover on and for some reason my tired brain just couldn't get the bumper shocks to mount into the rebar... I literally took the damn thing off like 20 times... so I decided I needed to trim more.. then bam it hit me, I had the rebar resting on the top of the shocks instead of sliding it over, oh well, I have a little extra air flow below the FMIC and radiator.. you can't see the piece I cut out so whatever...plus I have a S4 bumper cover that just needs paint and grills when I get the funds and time..

On another side note... I noticed on top of the cooler where the #s are stamped my name is etched in just after the #s, cool little touch I thought. XXXX-Pete.. :)