well im having trouble taking out the stock plastic piece where it covers the radiator..i already took off the seven screws on the top partand the radiator stays..but i can't seem to get the bottom part..do i need to take the whole front bumper off?..i want to replace it with a radiator cooling plate but now im stuck.

can anyone help me?

 

I didn't replace the whole plastic piece. My radiator panel just goes over it. I had to remove the "stifener" for the bumper (the metal part with the 7 screws through it.)

This is what I removed:


This is how the rad panel looks:

 

so only if i want to put a CAI ,then i would have to take the whole piece..

 

Depends on the CAI. As you can see, mine goes behind all that. I believe the spoon snorkel and the J's and Mugen intakes go through there. I do not believe they need removal either, but am not sure.

 

Hey Rudy,

I was having a hard time installing my rad plate as well. Mine just kept hitting the latch. Im going to try ruexp67 way and remove that piece. If not ill dremmel that sucker. Hope you get that thing out so you can install your plate.

 

tony, good luck with the install..ill try his way too, but i already messed up one of my screws
post a pic of the final install..like to see

ruexp67..thanks for the advice

 

this thing was a bizatch, i used this thread

it shows all of the attachment points for the panel, good luck

Eric

 

I took that thing out and it fit fine, but when i tired to close my hood it was stuck. I adjusted the latch up and it would be okay but everytime i did it, since my hood is lop sided, it made it alot worse. Heres a pic of it, you can see the white marks where i rub. Im going to drill some smaller holes so that my screws dont hit the plate. I already swapped out screws for smallers heads but no luck. Hows yours comming along?

 

That was definetly not an easy piece to remove. I suppose if you felt like taking the front bumper the whole way off it would be easier, but I didn't feel like doing that. I just used a long flathead screwdriver and a lot of paitence to get the plastic clips out from under the upper side of the front bumper. It kinda sucked, but no problems. Good luck!

 

well i have it installed..but my hood won't close this sucks