You can also use paint thinner. Works just as good as gasoline...

 

Insects, etc.?!

We are talking about the INSIDE of the IC, are we not?

 

Anyone wanna post quick step by step to getting it out?? I.e. inside tips.

I started to one day but could not find the last few connections to the IC front panel to remove it. I know the IC it self is easy to get out.

 

1)Remove header panel
-3 philips head screws up top
-2 10mm screws fastening the panel's 'arms' to the frame
-Slide it off the front, being careful to avoid scratching the bumper

2)Remove IC
-4 10mm bolts fasten it to the frame
-Loosen 2 hose clamps that connect IC to boost tubes
-Pull it out

There's a crappy plastic air duct that I pulled out and ****canned. I built my own much better duct out of two pieces of sheet metal.
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HEY GUYS
There is a great run down on the Lindsey site ( its regarding removing the stock intercooler
for a Lindsey one )
Hope it helps
Regards
Ed

 

Acetone works pretty good to clean it out as does MEK. (Careful with the MEK though, that stuff is bad news to be breathing or touching). Acetone isn't great for you either (technically it is a product of many chemical reactions in the body if that makes you feel any better about it) but it evaporates nice and fast which can be handy. I use it for cleaning all kinds of things.

Incidentally when did Acetone get so expensive? Last time I bought a gallon it was ~8 bucks, just got some a couple weeks ago and it's 12 bucks or more per gallon. (12 being at Home Depot or Wal-mart type places, even more at other places).

 

I would say:
- protect top of bumper paintwork with tape
- 4 philips screws up top
- remove rubber gaskets below headlights
- 2 M6 screws at the extreme outside of the "arms", reachable from where the rubber gaskets were
- 2 philips screws opposite the above, pointing inwards towards centre of car, also reachable from just below the headlights
- 4 M5 nuts hidden under the gaskets

 

Insects OUTSIDE the IC!

 

EXCELLENT! Thanks Cyrus!!

 

Where can you find the parts for the remote breather? Maybe I will do a search and look.