mine will be there when I get home!

 

a little tip. spray the end of the pipes where the couplers attach with hairspray and let them get tacky. then slide on the couplers and tighten them down

 

well... I got my UPS notification yesterday for the clamps... It didnt have my complete address that I told him on the phone. lets hope they show up.

 

Nm, its not getting delivered, Im going to go pick it up at the store, its only 17 mins from work Please be a warm day today!

thanks for the tip... I dont have hair spray but will Crew work?

 

no idea since i have never heard of crew. any aerosol hairspray will work

 

I'll see if the gf has some. Crew is like a hair paste.

 

nah it has to be like an aerosol spray. you let it dry and get tacky before you put on the couplers. it's a complete bitch to put on the couplers too.

 

Joe......... you're a retard.



if you need t-bolt clamps by this weekend and don't get the ones from Treadstone..... i think i have some that might work.

 

Oh Im getting them tonight, but I cant install the daang IC till friday now... Thursday is a busy day at work for me and I definately cant install tonight, I have poor night vision. Not Ideal at all. lol. I'll probably end up with a boost leak by saturday

 

ok cool. be sure to send me pics, i'd like to see what it looks like in the front grille.

i'm loving my new IC.

 

Jesus Joe your teasing me worse than my f buddy

 

lol. I have a plan in place now. I get the clamps tonight. Get all my work done tomorrow and take Friday off and do this.

And how the hell do you think I feel . I got the friggen thing sitting in front of me and I cant do anything about it!?!?
Its like being a parapalegic at a ***** house.

 

I took today off of work to wait for your install!!

 

If i'm out of the dog house with the GF I'll be installing mine tonight but all signs are pointing to tomorrow. UPS likes to deliver things to my neighborhood between 7-11pm for some reason

 

meh...I used hair gel. j/k

 

So for those of you that didnt have to use a set of plyers on your elbows so that the couplers had something to seat against with the clamps, here are some photos of what I had to do to make these work.










Nice little pentagon shape


^I just realized how bad that pic looks... Im a righty...... really! Left hand does absolutely nothing for me.


And to see if it held pretty well, I put all my body strength into that coupler to see if I could pull if off. I couldnt.

 

Got mine installed! Looks great!

 

Mine is coming tomorrow, by chance did you get around to making the "How to guide" yet for installation

Also, mine was sent before Friday, right when placed an order for the group buy. Do you think I got the flare outs or do I need to do the method above?

 

I think he said he flared them out for you. No how to install yet. I just got the clamps last night around 8:30. I won't be able to install today because I work 12 hrs. I will plan on going to work tomorrow at 1am and get my work done by 7am so I can install the intercooler

 

My car has major issues after I installed mine. It won't boost past 2psi and when it does the check engine light flashes and the car sounds like a Subi and shakes like hell. I tighten all the clamps down until I could see the couplers bulging.

A tip for the installation is to use rubbing alcohol on the couplers and piping the help slide them on. you only need enough to "lube" it up. The bumper reinforcement bar needs to come off with 13mm sockets. Good look on the ones in the middle and the intercooler needs to be supported while you reattach it. (two man job) Mount the couplers and clamps to the intercooler without the piping before you hang it. I rotated mine down so that they can be tightened after the intercooler was mounted.

A set of ratcheting wrenchs made my job a hell of a lot easier and I highly recommend them. I used sockets between 7mm-13mm for the installation. I think I pulled on the stock couplers too hard or something and may have damaging the sensor on the charge piping. I have to go to the drawing board. Sorry no pics guys but it took me a long time to get my bumper off for some reason. Looks great BTW!

 

Oh and "Cuda' the intercooler opening is flared out so I didnt need to modify my piping.

 

Hey Dom check that lower charge piping sensor

 

Yeah that's what I was thinking because I was pulling on the coupler to give me some more "leverage" to get the piping in further.

Its weird becaise it rides fine until you boost it a little and then it all goes to hell. LOL

 

excellent! Thanks for the heads up. Sorry your having a boost leak of some sort though, Could the vac line on the lower charge pipe have snapped off? Do you have the stock lower Charge pipe? Do the stock charge pipe couplers have issues fitting?

 

sounds like a boost leak. Car will run fine until you get into boost and the fuel trims go crazy negative (over fueling).