Rough time of it
I just had a nightmare of a time getting this install done (~16 hours over the last 2 days, with help from a buddy). I don't want to scare anyone off the process--I do IT work for a living and am not mechanically inclined. But I do want to warn anyone who order this IC to
check the length of the upper mounting pegs. The driver's side peg on mine protruded about 30mm from the intercooler body--but was supposed to be ~25mm. Lacking power tools I wound up filing it down by hand over the course of a few painful hours.
Here's a shot of what the peg looked liked before I started grinding (and before I knew that it had no chance of fitting in the radiator support):
https://imgur.com/T6AhH0h
Here's the point I finally figured out what the core problem was--the peg was colliding with some of the plastic on radiator support:
https://imgur.com/7RFed3v
Early on in the trial--I had filed it down a little bit at this point:
https://imgur.com/XBxJeDu
This is approximately what I had to file it down to in order to fit (I was so relieved it fit, I didn't measure or get a picture of the final state of affairs):
https://imgur.com/NZTKYQ8
I wound up filing it down for another 30 minutes to get it to fit, so I'm guessing it ultimately got filed down to ~24mm (plus, I had to file away around the peg as well so the bracket would slide down all the way). Had this not been an issue I would've given 9/10 on fitment: the condenser slid in with only a couple minutes of filing, and I had no other issues with installing it. Instead I'm pretty burnt out from troubleshooting a really unexpected issue.
Side question--is there a way to resize embedded images on this board? I'd like to embed some of the stuff from the imgur album I uploaded this all to, but it comes out 4000px wide.