Haven't started, Working 12 hour days this week and I'm going to be out of town this weekend for my niece's 1st birthday. I am hoping to have it done by next weekend.

Did you take the bumper off to install the IC? That's the only part I am dreading. Everything else is a breeze.

 

Yea the bumper had to come off. And it took me a while to figure out how to mount the cooler. I ended up loosening the crash bar. The L shaped mounting bracket slides in nicely and uses the crash bar bolt to mount the intercooler. It is nice and high out of the way of any curbs and concrete parking stops. It sits a little high but it loos nice. I was getting very aggro with all the silicone stuff. Ugh it just gets old with all the clamps and stuff. All the bolts and stuff are so time consuming and annoying. The cold air intake filter is huge and you have to position it while sliding on the bumper to get the filter above the fog light. Other than that the stuff went well. I took my time, about 12 hours total probably for the intake, and exhaust. I'll be doing a full write up tomorrow on my thread if you want to check it out. The bumper was a biznatch because its all plasticy and flexible and it wants to flex all weird when you slide it back on. It would be advantageous to have an extra set of hands, I did not.

 

Sounds like it was a pain in the ass. I like the look of those charge pipes, though. I don't like that the IC doesn't have its own 90 degree bends, though.

 

no need for them... the charge pipes have em...

 

Ah. Cool. Is the 90-degree bend just another piece with another coupling, or is the upper charge pipe just two pieces?

 

The upper is 2 pieces. This setup will flow better than the intercoolers with the 90* bends because there are no sharp angles.