ill post mine up tommorow because im too tired right now. tonight i totally destroyed my front bumper to fit intercooler and pipes through so i want to see how badly others did the same

 

before pipes installed,



after pipes were installed,

 

that doesnt look bad. your bumper just looks 2d now

 

you didnt have to cut that much. you just went overboard.

its your intercooler design.

for hondas you need to get the intercoolers with inlet and outlets on the BOTTOM. to help clear the vents.

 

looks like a bodykit almost here's mine 6" JRC on my JDM DC2




barely had to cut anything just the trace some fabs to relieve stress...i was ready to chop out and shave the back grill but luckily didn't have too

 

I have the JRC 6" on my EG. I barely had to cut anything.

 

I did NOT have to cut the corners of the grill like you see in this pic, I had fogights previously and you have to cut them out for that.




I did NOT have to cut the fog light holes, this was a bumper I got from a friend who had already cut them.

 

I had to cut the **** out of mine

I have a 5" JRC cooler so the end tanks are right in the middle, where the side vents should be. So, I had to cut those out.

I also had to hack the **** out of the driver's side because I ran the pipe under my washer tank. Next time I am definately getting a cooler with the inlet/outlets on the bottom and going under the side vents.

I don't really like how my bumper is all cut up right now but it doesn't bother me enough to do anything about it.

 

no trust me i had to cut them. i could have totaly modified the pipes but it would have had a kink in the pipe and i didnt want that. here is another pic

 

it stick out in person like 2 inches. you cant really see in the pic

 

Although too late, here is what you should have done.

On an EG, you get the JRC 6" or 8" and flip the intercooler upside down so the tanks are on the top, then you run your intercooler piping over top of the fog light holes.

Or what I did, I have a 8" JRC (endtanks on bottom) and bought 45 degree couplings, angled them more towards the rad support, and a little down. It went around the fog light stuff just fine.

let me see if I can find a pic w/out bumper.

here..notice how I also cut the rad support right below where I'm pointing. Just a fyi...I'm pointing at a custom AC line I had made cause my full race mani melted through the original one.

 

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On an EG, you get the JRC 6" or 8" and flip the intercooler upside down so the tanks are on the top, then you run your intercooler piping over top of the fog light holes.

Or what I did, I have a 8" JRC (endtanks on bottom) and bought 45 degree couplings, angled them more towards the rad support, and a little down. It went around the fog light stuff just fine.

let me see if I can find a pic w/out bumper.

here..notice how I also cut the rad support right below where I'm pointing. Just a fyi...I'm pointing at a custom AC line I had made cause my full race mani melted through the original one.

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he would not sell me a jrc intercooler because im in canada and this was the second intercooler i bought anyways. first was 12" high and i didnt want to cut the metal

 

my old car....

 

I had to take a tiny piece out of the fog light hole on my Prelude. And yes, the intercooler is not centered, which kind of drives me crazy, but I had no other options since it's so darn long!

 

Very tight fit but i got the look i was going for stock look keeping full front grill intact. I like when its pure stock looking but the intercooler is lurking.

 

heres mine..... not to much hacking envolved in it pics with and without bumper so you know how big the IC is hahahaha.......

 

just had to cut the fog vents, hard to tell cause ic piping is sprayed black

 

Here is mine....I had to cut alot because its the 750hp precision intercooler....

 

Yep i had to cut mine out like Evan did, pretty much all of the unpainted plastic on the dc2 bumper had to go to fit the precision.
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LOLZ!

 

Wth, why do some of you guys have overly large overkill IC's. It's to the ponit where it just looks bad. like above.

Anyway here's mine. Cut out the grills. sry for dark pic

 

heres a picture of my test fit, i didnt have to cut anything as far as hegith wise, but i did have to trim for depth, the intercooler isnt mounted yet and i know my bumper isnt painted

PWR Air-to-Air
Core size - 22x10.5x3

 

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Anyway here's mine. Cut out the grills. sry for dark pic
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actually its a 6X30... the only reason i had to cut was bc its a backdoor intercooler and it has no piping on the drivers side... just directly into the turbo.. so its way offcentered to the pass side.... and there is a huge gap on the drivers side which my license plate is covering up... so

 

just a little trimming in the black plastic grill for the end tanks.
jrc 5" fmic

 

Just the black grill.