off hand, does anyone know what size bolts fit into the holes on the IC??
those are great pics. Thanks

 

Ya, there 8mmX1.5, but thats really close to 5/16 course thread. Could be taped to 5/16 easly.

 

I would not fell as bad if, I only paid $500 in parts, I paid more than double. How much did you guys pay for the intercooler and piping?

 

That's the price you pay for someone elses time... You of all people should know how expensive an intercooler kit costs. Go find a real FMIC kit for your truck and tell me how much it costs.

I paid almost $700 for the parts to do my kit and that was without tax and no labor nor cutting and fitting the parts. That was just the raw materials. Rick spent an easy 4+hrs cutting and welding my kit together.

On a side note, I'm going to call up a guy that is looking to buy the STS kit from my truck and I'm gonna see if he would be willing to buy your FMIC kit from ya since he also has a 4.8L (the Regency truck you saw at Rick's lst week). If he is game I'll have Rick give you a call so you guys can come to a happy agreement.

Here is one of the few pics I have of where we cut my "frame".


I hesitate to call it FRAME because it actually only holds the bumper up and there is plently of support frame behind the cut. You'd have to really look under there to see what i mean. I had reservations as well but after seeing how it was done I wasn't sweating it.

Notice all the fram behind the cuts? The only thing in front of it is the bumper.



The other option is to set it up like Fullthrottledan did. His location is pretty impressive and much neater than mine.

 

Honestly man I dont think its a bad deal at all. I wouldve done it if it wouldve fit my vortech setup. I paid about $300 for the intercooler, $200 for piping but may need more, $70 for couplers, I think about $30 in T bolt clamps. The welder I got for the job was near $500, about $100 -$120 for gas, $20 for wire, $20 for blades, I may need to buy a stronger sawzall.
Im counting on spending more since Im sure I'll mess up some piping.

 

I'm not sure if a sawzall can cut that stuff. It's pretty damn thick.

Then again I'm not used to high powered tools so i don't know what it's really capable of. LOL

 

A good sawzall will cut it. It will just take time, patience and a handfull of blades.

 

This was not hard to to mount the fmic, and really easy to cut through the core support. Gets good air flow as well.
https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=277858

 

Nice setup OLD BULL

 

Old Bulls truck is an NBS, the OBS like the rest of use have, there isn't enough room to mount the intercooler between the grill and the core support above the bumper with out choping up the core support which is aluminum btw. I tried