Anyone have a good techniuqe on hacking up the pumper. I'v put a froknt mount on my budys car and i used a fine toothed blade on a sawzall then a power sander to clean it up.

When is a FMIC necessary? It's going to rob a lot of airflow to your Fluidyne which is never a good thing for engine/coolant temps....

Could an upgraded SMIC suffice most HP ranges?

Depends on what that rang is. I would just go with a smic if your going to stay under 320hp and if you do alot of track driving. But if you do alot of drag with a little more hp then go with the fmic, it doesn't heat soak as much.

I have the blitz fmic. I have not been able to run the car with it installed yet. It was a straight forward install. The only problem i had was that mine was a r2 so it has dual oil coolers. You have to bend the oil pipe kinda hard. If you want to see pics go to

https://www.rx7club.com/single-turbo-rx-7s-23/installing-t51r-pics-369546/page3/

heres a pic of my engine bay with blitz fmic
http://dragva.com/forums/attachment....id=18680&stc=1

Little red "X"