welp, with the hot side off getting coated, I turned my attention to the cold side. first thing was to mount the intercooler.
because im going for that sleeper look, I definitely want to hide it behind the grille and keep it looking "stockish"... so off comes the front grille assy, again, and then I placed the IC in the location I wanted...so the hood latch assy. was the determining factor on how high I could mount the IC (I don't want to do hood pins), so I had to modify the latch assy..first thing I did was remove the center grille bracket (drilled out a couple of rivets), then I cut the 'pull' to open the hood off, shortened it, did a slight rebending, and welded it to the latch assy. effectively just moving my hood pull up about 6"...and finally painted it again.
