So, I got time to mess with the intercooler placement...only because some bad things happened. I can't believe I didn't realize how close the charcoal canister bracket was to the positive battery terminal. When i bent the canister back to make room for the oil cooler to fit, it left maybe a quarter inch between that and the battery. As expected, if i would of looked beforehand, on a hard turn pedal to the floor the car shut off. Thinking i blew off a charge hose, i put it in neutral while rolling and tried to crank the car. No power, confused and coming to a stop, I see smoke coming from under the hood. Run out and pop the hood and the charcoal canister is on fire. Thankfully i was able to blow it out, bend the bracket away just enough to not ground the battery, stuck a piece of cardboard inbetween the two and miraculously made it home, 30 miles away. With some burnt up wires and a huge vacuum leak...
Here is some of the carnage...
It melted the insulation on the negative terminal all the way to the body. I thought that was pretty crazy, also that nothing else in the system shorted out, no computer issues or anything like that.
Now, obviously i can't drive it till it gets fixed, so off to the junkyard the next morning and grabbed a factory ground wire and another charcoal canister without a huge hole in it. Then found an old positive terminal clamp my brother gave me when he moved his battery to the trunk. This also gave me the time and energy to try and adjust the intercooler.
everything off.
I was able to push the cold side pipe a little farther into the 90 at the intake and get it to straighten just a tad. I found some old chunks of rubber I epoxied to the bottom to push it a little higher. The radiator clamps now sit in place and hold the rad like they should. The transmission cooler, I had to bend the lines about a half inch so the npr could scoot to the left and give room for my new oil cooler location.
Ha. luckily the fire from earlier burned a hole thru the CC bracket and i was able to bolt the top of the oil cooler to it and zip tie the bottom half to the top of the splash guard.
I turned the CC bracket 90 degrees or so and now it sits about 2 inches away from the battery. A tie down of some sort will happen shortly so this nonsense doesn't happen again.
New battery terminal clamp WITH a plastic cover cap
All buttoned up and no problems in about 500 miles