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    Quote Originally Posted by james_666
    lose em mate and never paint a cooler in black as black attracts heat and i thought the idea behind a FMIC was to cool better so painting black would be a bad idea but todd lose them mate
    not necesarily, as itll always have air flowing over it cause its at the front. a lad i know is running a high powered unoT and his fmic is black with no problems

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    heres my before:


    cant find the photoshop i had done to remove the slats, but heres my after:



    get a photoshop done, i was going to keep the slats but the pic changed my mind, glad i removed mine

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    Quote Originally Posted by charlieboy
    not necesarily, as itll always have air flowing over it cause its at the front. a lad i know is running a high powered unoT and his fmic is black with no problems

    ok so why is it most coolers come with no paint on them whatsoever it does make a car look a bit of sleeper granted but it does attract heat and there is no denying it i was thinking about doing mine black but spoke to a mechanic at work and he called me a stupid little fuka basically lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by charlieboy
    not necesarily, as itll always have air flowing over it cause its at the front. a lad i know is running a high powered unoT and his fmic is black with no problems
    That will be Dunc then lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by vern
    That will be Dunc then lol
    yep, mental little car. not seen it for a while though.

    ok, so maybe im wrong, but its being done by a few people.

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