smic vs fmic

How much of a difference do front mounts make. I understand they have a better ability cool the air, but I mean there are other side mounts that are pretty big like the one hahn makes. And plus how much hotter would the engine get because a front mout blocks all airways to the raidiator. How much horsepower difference really is there??

Front mounts don't block the air to the rad, at least it didn't on mine. I can tell you exactly how much it took off. It took .5 seconds on my ET.

I have only ever heard one time when a front mount intercooler made the car run hotter. I have a pretty big front mount and my car did not run hotter or at least that I could tell because of it.

When i put my front mount on i took out my a/c condenser (im not sur if thats what its called but its the thing that goes in front of the radiator) and my car never ran hotter, I have the same huge front mount as Just a GSX fan

I still have that bar you are talking about. I just pushed it back and bent the brackets a little bit so it fits between my radiator and the fmic. I still have no problem at all with running hot. Well other than the blown headgasket but the fmic had nothing to do with that.

No i'm talking about the radiator like thing for the a/c the thing you're talking about is for cooling the power steering fluid.

Get a FMIC. SMIC are worthless IMO. If you have the AC thing, an oil cooler, and a 3.5" thick IC without proper ducting you may over heat but if you have a thinner IC and do a little simple ducting you will be fine.