View Full Version : The FMIC south west challenge!!!! ASAP CASH PRIZES
FlikstRR
29-11-2006, 00:03
Ok folks heres the challenge:
fitting a FMIC to a s14 (96) from scratch in one day.
The competitors:
Challenge is open to anyone in the bournemouth area, reading area and all its surrounding towns/cities.
The Kit supplied:
1 Full FMIC for s14 (brens group buy kit),
1 Partco 054 battery (small terminals),
1 200sx s14 red, 80% rust,
1 Totally mechanically retarded owner
the kit needed:
tools, (hole cutter and whatever is needed for fiting),
someone with half a brain and possible FMIC fitting experiance,
one day (maybe less?) of your time, preferably this weekend,
the rewards:
any figure below or equal to £100
(preferably leave me a little fuel money lol)
love respect and admiration,
beer
self satisfaction(?)
glory
women
(i made the last one up)
anyone interested please leave a msg here or PM me..
this is basically a PLEE to anyone in those areas to help me/ install for me the FMIC. I've had 2 failed attempts and im panicing. NO other chance left before xmas to do this..
PLEASE!!!!!!!
Adam0bmx0
29-11-2006, 13:19
If you come to Plymouth, we can do mine to, most of the SW boys will do it for just some beer tokens and i owe alot of them :sxoc:
Adam
Richy_Boy
29-11-2006, 13:21
Failed attempts? how can you fail to fit a FMIC twice? :wack: Did B&Q not have the hole cutter when you apprached? :confused:
You've had this thing for ages haven't you?
If you're really stuck you can come over to mine for fitting in Reading..
Rich
If you come to Plymouth, we can do mine to, most of the SW boys will do it for just some beer tokens and i owe alot of them :sxoc:
Adam
will have to get in contact when i get mine :D
ferretca18
29-11-2006, 16:35
its easy to do these, hardest thing is if its an old car and you go shearing the sodding old bolts off:rolleyes:
Challenge is open to anyone in the bournemouth area, reading area and all its surrounding towns/cities.
Not very south west :wack:
FlikstRR
29-11-2006, 17:57
its easy to do these, hardest thing is if its an old car and you go shearing the sodding old bolts off:rolleyes:
lol well i know how much of an ass it was to get my WMIC off when i replaced that, hence the 80% rust comment.
If you come to Plymouth, we can do mine to, most of the SW boys will do it for just some beer tokens and i owe alot of them
Adam
That would be cool, but im about as useful as a condom machine in a convent when it comes to mechanics so you would just be doubling your workload with me making cups of teas. lol
Failed attempts? how can you fail to fit a FMIC twice? Did B&Q not have the hole cutter when you apprached?
You've had this thing for ages haven't you?
If you're really stuck you can come over to mine for fitting in Reading..
Rich
failed once due to halford 054 battery being wrong size! grrrrr
the other failed as my mate who was gonna do it worked half the day then rain stopped play :(
seriously might take you up on that as it would mean i could do it with no time restrictions as i can crash at my gf's uni halls after lol..
oh and mammoth, those are just the places that poped up as i live in bourne and the gf is in reading, ofc if any of these offers fail, im willing to travel any where really, i mean i have to.. im not payin a garage to do it and this only weekend i have free.
Flik. Seriously. We have a wealth on FMIC fitments done by us lot so far. If you can't get anyone else, then take a cruise down here and we will do it for you. I'm away from the 12th Dec to 2nd January (USA) so I'm free before or after that mate :)
You might even learn something.
Matthew
Wolvreen
01-12-2006, 05:43
Wow its great to see so many offers of help.
I am in the same boat, I also need mine doing. Help.
Nr Southampton but willing to travel.
1998 s14a automatic.
I can also offer the same 100 quid etc for beer money.
Maybe Flik has a roof rack so you can bring both cars down :wack:
Matthew
Richy_Boy
01-12-2006, 08:29
Fliks coming over to mine tomorrow for fitting :nod:
Rich
Wolvreen
01-12-2006, 12:52
What times does the redesign begin?
Fliks coming over to mine tomorrow for fitting :nod:
Rich
Nice one :)
Matthew
Richy_Boy
01-12-2006, 15:12
What times does the redesign begin?
9am ish :wack:
....I've had 2 failed attempts and im panicing....
I never actually noticed that bit before! What went wrong, how far you get?
Matthew
Richy_Boy
01-12-2006, 16:00
He said above :confused:
edit:
failed once due to halford 054 battery being wrong size! grrrrr
the other failed as my mate who was gonna do it worked half the day then rain stopped play :(
Rich
FlikstRR
01-12-2006, 19:40
as richy said i am goin over to his tomorrow.
thank you so much for all the offers of help, i really love this club and its members :p :ghey: :smitten:
aim to get there 9am-ish assuming i dont get lost. Also need to go to shops and get a ton of wd40 at some point as i feel alot of rusty bolts will be in the way of me and my fmic.
again thank you for all offers.
just prayin it all goes to plan :s
Richy_Boy
01-12-2006, 19:42
Shhh, it'll be fine :wack: :rolleyes:
Rich
Wolvreen
02-12-2006, 19:35
How is the patient Dr Frankensteen?
Richy_Boy
02-12-2006, 20:19
:wack: fook me that cheap Apex kit takes some bodging.. and he wasn't joking about the rust either :cry:
Started at ~10am and finished ~5pm. Managed to snap my hole cutter adapter too :D
Still, it kinda went back together right... I had the same problem that I had with mine with the cold pipes not aligning up near the water bottle. I made extra extra sure that I had the hole bang on. :rolleyes:
Just as a note, I am never ever fitting a FMIC for anyone again :cry: :D
Should hold together, that is of course if his tyres get him back to his partners flat the other side of Reading :rolleyes: never seen canvass before :eek:
Rich
Adam0bmx0
03-12-2006, 17:22
Wow, i can't wait to fit mine!!! :wack:
FlikstRR
04-12-2006, 13:46
as ritchy said, the fitting was a nightmare and took alot longer than we thought it would.
we had to bodge several different parts of the install to get it to fit, I have tons of excess piping etc that need to be sort lol.
Also as Ritchy mentioned both my front tyres were on the canvas!!!:eek: due to some shocking alignment work by a quickfit in london. absolutly pathetic infact as i took it to quik-fit reading and it was over 4mm out on each!!!! they got me two new tyres (pirelli p7s) and the tracking etc sorted for £243. one HELL of an expensive weekend. :rant:
on a plus note the kit seems to be working fine and i have a noticable power boost........ mainly because my bren device doesnt work any more!!! Me and Ritchy speculated that the bren device being plugged into another pipe that origianlly went into the soleniod would either 'work' and hold the boost at 0.8bar which is where i had it before OR would not work and would run from actuator pressure (7psi???) in fact none of that has happened and the boost is un-resticted :eek: i hit 1.2bar by accident and the car JOLTED hard...:wack:
needless to say been very carefull since! need to figure out how to get it workin again. ri
thank you to richy for the install, and claire for puttin up with and feeding me :D
cheers
phil
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