Stillen 7AT coolers installed?

wstar

As far as the rest of the kit goes, my primary complaint was that the holes on the mounting bracket aren't quite large enough diameter for the shipped self-drilling screws (the self-drilling is for the radiator core support lower shelf). You can sit there and drill through the bracket with the screws before you install it, but it just dulls them and takes forever. Far easier to drill them to 1/4" diameter with a proper drill bit, which makes me wonder why they didn't do this in the first place.

With two sets of hands (two guys crammed under the front of the car on Rhino Ramps), it's possible to pre-fill the cooler and new hoses, cap them temporarily with a couple of junk bolts of correct diameter, and then do the hose swaps with minimal fluid loss.

I'm likely to switch to 5/16" hardware/hoses unless I hear something different/better out of Stillen. If I end up going that route, seems like I would have been better off financially making my own bracket (a peice of steel with 7 holes drilled in the correct spots would do) and buying my own Setrab and hardware though, than buying Stillen's kit.

I don't mind paying someone to put together a ready-to-go kit and save me some trouble, but if I have to re-drill the bracket, abort the process wasting a whole day when I find out the hoses don't fit right, and then replace most of the fittings and hose they sent anyways, what was the point?

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