Cyber Monday got the best of me…

I was browsing on FR Sport and saw that the Blitz LM Type CS intercooler core was on sale for about $220 off. I had been hoping to sell the ETS core that came with the car to pick something else up, so this was too good of a deal to pass up. The core is a bit thinner than the ETS, and I am sure there are reasons related to performance that show that the Blitz is not as nice, but as you guys will see soon enough, I am a sucker for Japanese products.

Always fun to come home to a big ol box!

The contents. I ended up reusing the couplers and t-bolt clamps that were on the car already.

It seems to be common practice for people to run intercoolers with logos stenciled on them in the Evo world: ETS, AMS, etc. This wasn’t as common in the 240 scene, so I never really went through with it. The ricer in me decided to whip up a Blitz stencil for the intercooler and spray it on before I installed it:

Front bumper removal was straight forward. It’s always a little intimidating to do something like this on a car you are not super familiar with, but it was off within 15 minutes:

Old core removed and new core painted and installed. My car came with an ETS lower pipe, but I need to replace the other factory piping at some point down the road. I’ll save that for another day:

Some completed photos of the dirty car before I left for work this morning:

I’m getting more and more happy with the car as I have time to work on it. I’ve got a couple other things on the way, I just need the time to actually work on it! I had planned to get a lot more work done, but the time always seems to just slip away.

Damon