Hey all,
Ordered a ZZP Stg 3 kit the other week and tried to attempt to install the HE tonight. As you can see in the pic I had some issues. So I was wondering if any one has any "helpful" hint or advice. I tried to install it with the bumber cover onper cover on but next time i will take it off, but with or without the Bump cover this will still be and issue. As you can see at the vertical mounting tabs there is a flange that comes down and gets in the way and prevents the mounting tab from reaching that stud where I assume the mounting tab goes (no instructions recieved). So for the guys who have installed this did you have the same issue? and if so what did you do? Did you cut it off. I have used the search thread tool for days trying to find helpful how to"s and printed of a few and they are helpful but can't find any thing specifically about this. Thanks for any help.

 

Yoy have to bend the flanges

 

THe ones on the car i assume or on the HE? Just want to be clear thanks

 

On the he , I had to bend them in all sorts of directions to get it to line up but I belive I only bolted one side up, then the bottom two

 

Lol really? You would think ZZP would notice or get complaints about that?

 

A lot of people did complain, I remember when installing mines I was asking the same questions as op in other people told me to bend the flanges

 

WOW OK Guess thats what i am doing.

 

yup same for me. had to p;lay with it till it worked. i didnt take the bumper off either

 

yeah mine wouldnt fit ethier. my bumper actually still isnt lined up right. when i brought it up with zzp they said it i must have installed it right because they have installed so many without problems

 

So I heard back from ZZP and they said "You have it on the backside of the bumper support, it should be on the front side.". I have asked for pics of one of thier installs to see.

 

I thought they sandwiched between the bumper and the rad support.. That's how I did mine..

 

Yeah he was wrong I got it in now and all is good.

 

Bend that **** all sorts of goofy ways until it fits up. I had the same problem and I installed mine with the fascia on. Don't worry, you're not going to break them.

 

It took me less then 30 minutes to install hella easy didn't have to take my bumper off or anything!!

 

make sure u use those flanges.. i didnt and just used the top 2 and well the welds ended up breaking and i had to buy a new h/e and car was down for a few days

 

I wish my cx heat exchanger was this easy
I had to cut all kinds of metal, make brackets, drill holes.. it was a nightmare.

 

this is how i did mine, just tweaked the mounting tabs on the sides a lil, didnt use the ones in the middle, just zip tyed them to the tabs on bumper. been like this for about 2.5k miles.

 

can we get a pic of how yours looks mounted?

 

thread from the dead!!!!

 

Glad I went with the OTTP Stg 1 HE. All I had to do was drill some holes for the bolts

 

I'm installing an older model ZZP H/E today, same thing, "vertical" brackets are off by quite a bit. I got a big ass set of grips and I'm twisting the crap out of them to align them to the factory bolts sticking out in the OP's pic.

Any suggestions on using heat or not when bending? It is aluminium, which I don't have much experience with.

Cheers!

 

I just mounted mine yesterday,I just bent the flanges to get it to hook up

 

i installed all mine and now a month and half later the dual pass end plate is leaking. working on getting zzp to replace it under warranty.

 

Hey guys, I got the vertical brackets on the H/E to line up and bolt down perfectly, but damn, the two "horizontal" ones (the ones parallel to the top of the H/E and in the "middle" of the H/E) will not line up with the bolts I have, the angles are way off.

The vertical tabs seem to be holding the H/E really well as is bolted down. Everything lines up great, except for those tabs in the middle of the H/E. I know a few posts back it mentioned just using the vertical brackets, is this because the angle of the H/E tabs was off for you as well? I can't even get the nut on the bolt, it's almost a 35 degree angle between the bumper and the H/E.

Advice please

 

So, I decided that since the horizontal tabs are thicker, they'd be the better ones to anchor off of. This being said, I can't get the vertical ones to bolt in now. Crap, I'm not sure what is better, but the vertical ones are getting a bit mangled as a result of trying to make them fit.

I don't think I can install both the vertical and horizontal ones, I've been trying everything. It's either I bend it one way to make it fit for the horizontal, or, if I want to bolt the vertical, I gotta bend them in a way that the horizontal won't fit. Frustrating.