need help gettin stock side mount intercooler mounted!

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eds13
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how the heck do you get the smic up in there number one. and two, where do you mount it?
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It goes in your driver side wheel-well. Take off the wheel, and inner fender well and you'll be able to bolt it up in there. Under your factory intake box, there will be a raised section of metal that is stamped. All you have to do is cut this out, and you'll be able to run your hot/cold piping into your side mount. Hope that helps!

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it did thank you! i finally got ahold of my friend and he told me the exact same thing...i feel like an idiot

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Split some small diameter (1.5" ID) radiator hose or fuel line and line the hole with it. Looks a little better and helps reduce rattle from piping. I have metal pipes, so it was really loud with out it LOL.

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I all ready did i saw somebody else do it. thought it looked good. and it does!

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been thinkin of doing that myself.. mine rattles like crazy at idle.. of course I need to smooth the hole out..

couldn't get the dremel in there for most of it so I just swiss cheesed it with a drill and took a huge flathead screwdriver and hammer and just banged the bastard out.. so I have all these half circles around the edges from the drilling out..

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i (my dad) just used a sawsall it worked really well


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