I went on the intercooler mission - I posted a thread asking people about their experiences and everyone was correct. Yes, buy the clips in advance, I didn't and had to leave the car tarped over night until the clips came in the next day. I first looked to zip tie it but... that was too ghetto. I broke the little hood latch clip thing, like someone mentioned. The mishi itself, fit like a dream, the only modification that I needed to do was sand down a bit of the radiator support bracket so that the provided mishi bracket can go over it. Started her back up, and she lit up like a Christmas tree - it was all the driver assist options, turns out that happens when you restart the battery. After that a CEL came on, ran the code, forgot to replug one of the sensors, plugged it in and cleared it, no code. Now upon start, I hear a little bit of plastic noise coming from the engine bay, so I'm not sure if that's everything just settling in if you will or if I have to find the culprit. I'm pretty pleased with myself and the install. It was a bitch, way harder than on a MK6, but, got it done. Now just to get that creek out of the way, I have a feeling its got to do with a light vibration of that hood latch cable that I broke, so I'll zip tie it and see if it helps.
Took it for a boot and ripped it. Car feels like it has a better response and pulls slightly harder, I think. Next on the docket is an IS38.
