Spent the weekend getting this completed. Kind of a wrestling match getting the sandwich together and mounted.
The driver side peg did need some grinding down. I also ground down the lip of the peg so the yellow clip could be pushed further in to line up.
That part was a hassle. Shortening the whole thing was easy via just pushing it into my bench grinder. But trimming down the lip on all of those sides of the peg - not so much.
I was still unable to get the driver side pulled in all the way. I used an m6 bolt like is shown in post 1 to try and draw the clip all the way in, but I stopped a few mm short because it was starting to feel very forced.
Oh yea, Chinese replacement yellow clips ftw. The originals broke almost immediately.
The whole shebang fit but the back of one the fan's rear braces is like right up against the engine's inlet charge hose/pipe clamp band.
I couldn't get the bottom of the whole thing any further forward and wanted to be done. Car runs and sounds exactly the same (it's too cool out for a better IC to do much) so that's good.
I might go back and trim away a few mm of that spot on the fan brace to keep it from resting right on the hose rather than try to remount it more forward. Anyone else have that situation?
I only managed to break two small plastic bits, so that's not bad. Epoxied and sanded easily enough.
Also (and do this at your own risk), if you have the xenon lights, getting that annoying 16mm crash bar bolt out from under it is way easier if you use a floor jack and a 2x4 to ever so gently push the whole light assembly up a few mm.
Actually I got the bolts out without doing that, but could not get them lined up and threaded to go back in without pushing the light up and out of the way.