When I first got the intercoolers they looked like the first picture, pretty beaten up and poor looking.
To give them a nice look I sprayed them down with black crinkle paint that they use on truck bed liners and then used a sander to sand off the raised portion on the outer ring and the Maserati symbol . Given how hard it was to sand off the paint, I don't think I have to worry about them degrading for a long time.
Then, I cut the intake tubing to fit the intercoolers in and put them in the intake path. I welded a 1 inch diameter pipe onto the intake piping on the pressurized and non-pressureized path and connected in the two bypass valves I bought.
After this I tightened all the hose clamps and I'm ready to fire it u
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You can see the new spoiler that I added to the Biturbo.
It wasn't all fun and no work; we did get the water pump for the air-to-liquid intercoolers connected and filled the system up.
I also took the GTV6 out for a spin and it was fantastic, as usual.
