i am looking to do a intercooler install here soon. Can u guys post pics of your inter coolers. I don't know what style I want. Also interested in trying to keep my bumper reinforcement.

Can't go wrong with vrsf! Or ets if you got the $$ you can keep bumper support just needs to be trimmed

I said screw the bumper support and the fog lights short route is the way to go, requires trimming the core support under the passanger headlight but it does the job damn well for me, plus the colder the charged air is the more power you can tune for.....

You can keep the bumper support but a little bit of cutting is required. I also keeped it and mounted my intercooler right on the bumper support

Short route, Not exactly sure what kind it is but its Atleast 3-4in thick.

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ets short route. The minor cutting and trimming wasn't hard.

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kinetic fmic. sbr resold them as there own.

Punishment. Retained fog lights and crash beam

Was able to keep fog lights. My core was already removed. But have seen them fit with a trimming done.

It's a punishment racing short rout. Able to keep the 2gb fog lights, not 100% of a 2ga.

Who needs bumpers?!

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Ive got the same style intercooler as spyder drifter

The ets street core bolts to the bumper support, and the fitment was perfect.

Vrsf kit installed. A little bit of cutting required and relocated stock over flow tank to where stock intercooler was mounted. If you can swing for ets street kit I would. Overall I happy with the Vrsf kit great quality.

If you relocated the coolant over flow to the smic location, is it below the sheet metal or above?

Below

I like all the front mounts, but what ever happened to the OP

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Punishment. Retained fog lights and crash beam

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When you did your PR FMIC did you have to pull the head lights? Also what did you do with the power steering "cooler line"?

Planning on doing a huge parts install in the next few weeks and trying to get my checklist together as not to run into any unknowns. I will only have the weekend and my DSM is my only daily driver.

Priority DSM said:

When you did your PR FMIC did you have to pull the head lights? Also what did you do with the power steering "cooler line"?

Planning on doing a huge parts install in the next few weeks and trying to get my checklist together as not to run into any unknowns. I will only have the weekend and my DSM is my only daily driver.

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Nope! Didn't touch the ps lines either. Install is pretty straight forward, there's a youtube video online if you want to keep the crush beam like me too.

Only issue was the coupler at the top that connects the elbow to the pipe with the BOV flange was kinda short. Ended up purchasing a longer one on eBay.

TehRiceBandit said:

Nope! Didn't touch the ps lines either. Install is pretty straight forward, there's a youtube video online if you want to keep the crush beam like me too.

Only issue was the coupler at the top that connects the elbow to the pipe with the BOV flange was kinda short. Ended up purchasing a longer one on eBay.

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Cool. Thanks for the info. I have watched that YT vid too, many times . I'm the kind of guy that reads and watches install vids 100x. I've even read the Factory Service manual...for funzies

Priority DSM said:

Cool. Thanks for the info. I have watched that YT vid too, many times . I'm the kind of guy that reads and watches install vids 100x. I've even read the Factory Service manual...for funzies

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Lol. Yeah, I'm the same way same situation. My DSM is my only car so I read up on stuff a thousand times so it's not down waiting for parts or something when it comes to install time.

Here's mine. Ss you can see, I kept the foglights. The piping that would come with this style for the upper portion is different though. I modified it to fit like the short route. I also am changing the way the upper pipe routes soon.

Here is my intercooler, Forced Performance. The fog lights had to go, but I didn't mind.

Ohhchhittt said:

i am looking to do a intercooler install here soon. Can u guys post pics of your inter coolers. I don't know what style I want. Also interested in trying to keep my bumper reinforcement.

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others have said it, vsr is a common choice, and yes you can have it re-enforced(trimming it). but, it will require cutting and fitting and re-cutting and re-fitting the bumper, its a pain, but its affordable. but cant use oem fog lights, but after-market will fit.

Ebay intercooler. Looking to get a mishimoto soon.