Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Intercooler Part 1 - FAIL!

I attempted to install the intercooler today.
It was total FAIL.

Before


Bumper, headlights, and rebar off.


Driver side bracket barely clearing the pipe. The steel bolt that goes into the aluminium intercooler was also half seized and striped most of the thread.


The black piece doesn't bolt up. I had to make a new bracket (the silver piece) to make it work.



Because of that bracket that doesn't line up to any hole, I had spend an extra 2 hours to think of how to make it work, go to Rona to get additional hardware, and then make the extra bracket.
After finally having the intercooler mounted, I started hacking the bumper.
But I ran out of time to make the bumper fit back on, so I had to take the intercooler off to put the half hacked up bumper back on.

Hopfully I will be able to finish hacking up the bumper and start on the rebar soon.

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