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deano27

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deano27

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Hi Guys,

Just bought a cooler for my 34.

When trying to install I have ran into a couple of issues.

1. The thermal fan is in the way. How do you get around this?

2. Where do you bolt it to? It's got bolt holes on the left and right but I can't work out how to use these to bolt it to the car.

Any help appreciated.

Dean

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Kujotk Grand Master

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mine is a just jap stealth one, i had some help with mine aswell, basically on the r33 there were come prexisting bolts close to where the intercooler lined up to (not exactly right) so bolted one on and the other is cable tied. also at the top of the intercooler there was another bracket that fitted to where one of the horns was bolted to, this is also cable tied lol. For the thermal fan i had no problem, it is very close but doesnt touch my thermal fan.

the intercooler doesnt weigh much and the single bolt can support it fine, i just threw the cable ties incase..... i check them every now and then incase they get weak...

r34 and r33 are meant to be the same in regards to mounting fmic's..... well thats what just jap said to me when they gave me a box that said R34 on it....

R-SPEC Grand Master

R-SPEC

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is the core 1 of them universal ones? if so you'll need to make up your own brackets for mounting it

if its model specific it should have a bracket on the top of the core in the middle which uses the same bolt as the bonnet release thingy

should also another 1 or 2 down the bottom of the core

dunno bout the thermo fan though never heard of that happening...

Kujotk Grand Master

Kujotk

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supose you could get a longer bracket so the core sits further away from the fan and radiator, (assuming you have enough room in your front body kit.....

Get an angle grinder and start shaving lol

342NV Contributor

342NV

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ive got a HDI one and i know what you mean by the thermal getting in the way,

basically we started to hack the edges off but in the end. the amount of hacking into the thermal fan would've made the fan useless. I bought 1 14" ( attachted to the radiator) and 1 (attached to the air con condenser) 10" thermal from super cheap and now she works fine oh and i removed the rio support and made up some stainless brackets witch one side bolted onto the radiator support and the other side on the top holes of the intercooler.

hope that helps

p.s if you need pics just pm me i know how frustrating it is lol

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