2G ETS 7 inch Street intercooler

[ryancampbell98]

This intercooler bolts to the crash beam. Going through old forums of people installing this intercooler I’ve noticed that they have it bolted up with the bolt brackets facing forward and not facing aft like mine is with the stencil. If I install it with the stencil facing forward, the intercooler overlaps the crash beam unlike everyone else’s in which theirs is tucked under the crash beam with the brackets facing forward. Mine came stenciled from ETS themselves. So my questions is…

Is my stencil on the wrong side or has everyone been installing theirs wrong?

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[SixBolt_16G]

Just installed mine back in February or so. Mine bolts up like the other pictures, and while not the best picture you can see that it is tucked all the way in so the brackets have to be forward. I would say your stencil is on the wrong side if you would prefer it showing.

If you dont care about the stenciling, then i could be wrong, but dont think there is a an actual "front" or "back" to the intercooler and would work just the same installing it with brackets forward. Just a matter of preference to show stencil or not. If you paid extra for the stenciling, then yeah wrong side.

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[ryancampbell98]

Just installed mine back in February or so. Mine bolts up like the other pictures, and while not the best picture you can see that it is tucked all the way in so the brackets have to be forward. I would say your stencil is on the wrong side if you would prefer it showing.

If you dont care about the stenciling, then i could be wrong, but dont think there is a an actual "front" or "back" to the intercooler and would work just the same installing it with brackets forward. Just a matter of preference to show stencil or not. If you paid extra for the stenciling, then yeah wrong side.

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Yea I paid extra for it. I knew something was wrong.

 

[ryancampbell98]

Just installed mine back in February or so. Mine bolts up like the other pictures, and while not the best picture you can see that it is tucked all the way in so the brackets have to be forward. I would say your stencil is on the wrong side if you would prefer it showing.

If you dont care about the stenciling, then i could be wrong, but dont think there is a an actual "front" or "back" to the intercooler and would work just the same installing it with brackets forward. Just a matter of preference to show stencil or not. If you paid extra for the stenciling, then yeah wrong side.

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Do you have a picture with the bumper on?

 

[Mello]

Have you called ETS? What did they say?

 

[ryancampbell98]

Just contacted them through email. They are closed atm.

 

[SixBolt_16G]

Best i can do right now. Im out of town and away from it

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The fitment of the intercooler was spot on.... it was my CX Racing piping on the drivers side that caused some issues. I had to cut a little bit of the bumper away on the inside because it was hitting around the indents/fog lights. So had to pull the bumper real tight and have someone else screw it down.

But I dont think the bumper would fit with the intercooler mounted with the brackets facing backwards... if I remember correctly the mouth sits almost right up against it.

 

[SixBolt_16G]

@ryancampbell98

Just curious as to what happened with this? Did they fix this for you?

 

[ryancampbell98]

Nah , just sent me a kit to fix it myself. I live in Cali and bought through a third party website, they wouldn’t be able to send it back if they fixed it. Not compliant with Cali law. If I may ask, what piping kit did you use to install?

 

[SixBolt_16G]

If I may ask, what piping kit did you use to install?

Bolt on Intercooler Piping Pipe Tube Kit for 95-99 Mitsubishi Eclipse Talon 2G DSM

www.cxracing.com

A CXRacing piping kit that I bought from a local guy a few years ago. This is the kit that it was and I think he said he called and just got the throttle body elbow, piping, j-pipe w/gasket and couplers and left out the BOV, bracket and intercooler. That was all that he gave me. Not sure how much it matters, butI bought better couplers because the originals felt cheap and thin.

The kit fit well for the most part. I had to shave the inside of the driver's side bumper to get the bumper to bolt back up... Not sure if it has anything to do with the 6bolt swap because i havent really heard any other 2g guys with the piping say that they needed to shave like i did. It was off just a bit, but enough.

Intercooler piping kits seem to be very limited for us.

 

[ryancampbell98]

Thanks for info. Bought the same kit but was worried about fitment

 

[SixBolt_16G]

Fairly straight forward for assembly, i used this thread as a visual guide because the couplers i bought were close but slightly longer/different so threw the assembly off a bit

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[ryancampbell98]

UPDATE: after installing the ETS 7 inch street intercooler, with the CX racing piping kit. I will say that a lot of fab work needs to be done to the bumper so that it doesn’t look wonky as hell after putting it on. You would think because it connects to your crash beam and the website said that you don’t need to trim blah blah… no. You definitely need to trim if you want your bumper to look good with it on. The 3 inch core is will rub on the bumper immensely. And the piping will rub as well. If proper trimming is not done you will need to force the bumper on, maybe even with two people and you will not be pleased with the look of the bumper. The bumper will looked bowed and compressed and all around deformed looking. If you know anything about the material these bumpers are made out of, you’d know not to keep it on the car like that or the deformity will stay that way and be hard to form back to original. I’m glad I have my crash bar back with a quality intercooler and solid piping but my previous ebay intercooler was better at keeping a clean look on the front bumper and not having to do so such fab to the bumper although it requires removal of the crash bar. You will not be able to run the black air ducting covers on the front bumper because of the cx racing piping as well. I will send pictures soon when I have trimmed my bumper to my liking. At the moment the bumper is off the car because it looked embarrassing. I’m not one of those dsm guys that will run an ugly front end just to have a cool intercooler. Fog lights will remain.

 

[SixBolt_16G]

You would think because it connects to your crash beam and the website said that you don’t need to trim blah blah… no.

That is when you use the intercooler piping with the actual CX Racing intercooler. The ETS street intercooler is considerably wider and the piping isnt guarenteed fitment when used as "universal". Comparing the pictures below, the two intercoolers differ in where the core ends in relation to the headlights. It moves the connection points at the ports further out to the sides.You can see how much the piping sticks out past the driver's side fog lamp on my car compared to the one on top with the CX intercooler. I think that little bit of a difference causes the piping to make contact with the bumper pushing it outward as you try to wrap it around the drivers side.

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Instead of modifying the bumper I probably should've modified(and will attempt to do so when im back around my car in the next few weeks) the piping on the driver's side so that it doesnt extend so far past the fog lamp. I think cutting a couple inches off each end of the U-pipe and then using a cheap bead roller would resolve the issue. (If anyone sees a flaw in my thinking, id appreciate a response)

I know this isnt the modifying that you want to do or anticipated, but with the severe lack of piping options for these cars, I cant really think of any other options outside of using the complete CX Racing Intercooler package. For me, that wasnt an option since i already had the ETS sitting around for some time but they had already stopped providing the piping, which, i think most people are going to find themselves in this same position these days. I still have to recommend it because it gets you most of the way there, outside of piecing together your own, but then youd most likely be stuck doing more cuts and possibly welding vs modifying 1 pipe.

Ill report back to this thread if the modification is worth the effort.