Looking at one of the neatest pikey 1 mods ever done : http://www.briskoda.net/forums/fabia/pikey-mod-1a-members-patience/56570/#post786539

an interesting point was raised that if you leave on the aircon, you can feel the hot air coming through the arch vent. Aircon off, no heat felt. The understanding being that the hot air from the Aircon condensor blows through the OEM SMIC.

So it stands to reason that perhaps even if you put in a FMIC, you might want to leave all the hard work of the pikey mods in place to ensure the best Aircon efficiency! ( a good excuse for 'can't be bothered':D

Comment? Opinions? Ripe tomatoes? (No treadmills please!)

Cheers:thumbup:

Bas

Definitely interested in the outcome of this based on having propane fumigation which makes the idea of having hot aircon air going in a little weird

That said the fans do come on when you turn on the aircon, so it wouldn't surprise me if more hot air had to be expelled somehow

Yep the hot air flows right through the SMIC.

This must make you wonder that if there is no venting, where does the heat go???

is it just the tdi and 20vt ibiza's that have the factory pikey mod, or do all the ibiza's have it

There must be a case for doing some sort of enclosure work on the front lower wing, whether pikey modded, FMIC'd or not. A deflector/wave guide either side of the radiator/aircon radiator maybe and another after the SMIC to try to keep engine bay air separate from the I/C air.

BTW: Anyone taken a look behind their radiator? I was having a nose around the other day and the area "blanked" off behind there's quite something, especially, surrounding the smaller of the two fans.

J.