Four Bitten
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I just received my rear heat exchanger from Pioneer Performance. I'm getting ready to install it and it looks to me that you need to cut the tunnel protectors. The directions don't specify this so I am wondering what protects the cooler once you them off? Could use a little info on this one please. Thanks in advance.
SRXSex
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I only had to make a small cut to one side of the tunnel. Protectors did not need to be cut.
This should help
http://www.ty4stroke.com/viewtopic.php? ... sc&start=0
This should help
http://www.ty4stroke.com/viewtopic.php? ... sc&start=0
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Four Bitten, I modified your post so that it was not all capital letters. Using all caps is like SHOUTING at someone. 
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Lot's of posts do a search. Some guys do it different with regards to protectors.
I myself bolted on the cooler instead of riveting it. SS Nyloc's and Locktite.
If you have studs you might or should have at least a 1 1/2 in. protector as the lugs bend on the Ripsaw and expose more of the stud's.
I myself bolted on the cooler instead of riveting it. SS Nyloc's and Locktite.
If you have studs you might or should have at least a 1 1/2 in. protector as the lugs bend on the Ripsaw and expose more of the stud's.
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If studded & adding to the attak do a search with myself as the authoer so taht you don't have the problems I did.
yamadog07
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just finishing my rear cooler on attak. you are correct, they do not tell you about cutting protectors. i searched & did a post & never got a straight answer. i tried to bend protectors down to slide cooler under. it did not work. in the end i cut about 5" off the protectors. then made another set of protectors to cover the new cooler. i can not see any other way to do the job unless the protectors are cut.
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Sounds like you got it done. Take a pic of the protectors you made for us.
In previous posts everyone has done them differently. I myself bolted the cooler on with SS hardware. I didn't own a rivet gun and I've always bolted everything on the boat,etc.. I own a gun now.
The protectors I made were a combination from other pics I saw here. And now I'm going to rivet a old slide with one edge cut off to the protectors to increase the height for protection against studs I'm putting on.
In previous posts everyone has done them differently. I myself bolted the cooler on with SS hardware. I didn't own a rivet gun and I've always bolted everything on the boat,etc.. I own a gun now.
The protectors I made were a combination from other pics I saw here. And now I'm going to rivet a old slide with one edge cut off to the protectors to increase the height for protection against studs I'm putting on.
Four Bitten
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I also found out you have to cut 5-6 inches off the tunnel protecters. I took the cut off pieces to a friend at a local machine shop and had them tig welded to the heat exchanger. Looks pretty slick, should work out fine.
