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311evo
07-22-2010, 03:57 PM
Picked the car up. It feels very different at -2.5 front, that's for sure.

I noticed that the black coating that Perrin put on my fmic has begun peeling off. Nice. I dropped them an email to see if they can do anything for me. Not sure how good of a fix rattle-can would be if other sections keep flaking off.

Sand blast it and either do a good rattle job, or powder coat it. (Can you even successfully powder coat an fmic?)
mlomker
07-22-2010, 04:09 PM
Sand blast it and either do a good rattle job, or powder coat it. (Can you even successfully powder coat an fmic?)

Perrin customer service is pretty quick. Their guy told me that it is a powder coat. My guess is that the surface wasn't prepped well enough, otherwise this big piece shouldn't have come off.

I'm going to take a pic to send them when I get home. I hope they swap it for a new one. $650 (or whatever) should look good for more than six months.
asshanson
07-22-2010, 04:20 PM
Why not do a thermal dispersant coating to release heat instead of keeping it in? Or anodize it. That is if Perrin won't do anything for you.
scheides
07-22-2010, 04:23 PM
Zac had a black perrin FMIC and the same thing happened after like 6 months. He ended up just getting a silver/unpowdercoated one.
311evo
07-22-2010, 04:32 PM
Picked the car up. It feels very different at -2.5 front, that's for sure.

I noticed that the black coating that Perrin put on my fmic has begun peeling off. Nice. I dropped them an email to see if they can do anything for me. Not sure how good of a fix rattle-can would be if other sections keep flaking off.

Sand blast it and either do a good rattle job, or powder coat it.

edit, wtf I posted this twice.
goodhart
07-22-2010, 04:37 PM
The thermal dispersant idea andrew had sounds nice, but when I talked to Jesse @ Primo, he made it sound as though they helped some parts lots more than others. I thought about getting my SMIM done, but for near twice the cost it wouldn't have been worth the cost for the difference it would have made. Something worth asking about though I suppose
mlomker
07-22-2010, 04:43 PM
He ended up just getting a silver/unpowdercoated one.

That was the first thing that crossed my mind. Wish I'd gone with ETS on more of my parts--they anodize.

http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae80/mlomker/Car%20July%202010/fmic.jpg
mlomker
07-22-2010, 06:22 PM
Got my gauges figured out again...the OBD module had terminated the daisy chain again since the config was reset.

http://i959.photobucket.com/albums/ae80/mlomker/Car%20July%202010/alignment.jpg
FattyBoomBatty
07-22-2010, 10:24 PM
How's that rear toe gonna treat you? Also, with that big flake off the intercooler, it seems to me to be something wrong with the surface in that area, like you said. But keep in mind, there are always going to be rocks/sand/dust hitting it that will eventually take off any coating except maybe anodizing, still, that's only a surface treatment of the metal, right? So a big rock could gouge right through it. You should see the stuff in my intercooler.
mlomker
07-23-2010, 09:37 AM
How's that rear toe gonna treat you?

Justin was very insistent about the rear toe. The car comes with that stock so I've never driven a car at 0 to compare.

What's interesting is that my car is out of spec for caster and it isn't adjustable on the X. I'd have to have the PSRS installed (which I do have) to add caster. I guess that's a possible Winter project.