Company 23 Tmic stud kit! Studify your top mount intercooler!
Hey!.... Welcome to another #modmonday, where we look a part installed on one of my Subaru's/ This week on we take a look at Company 23s Stud kit #1 for 04-13 STi's, 05-06 Saab 9-2x Aero, and 02-07 Wrx. I have these installed on my 05 STi and my 06 Fxt with it's upgraded 08+ STi tmic. Both sets have been issue for for many miles and many removals.
Not much to them, but the simplicity is genius.
This mod is very simple but extremely worthwhile. For many of you that may work on your own car, you know that removing the top mount intercooler is necessary in many tasks for services on your Subaru. The factory intercooler has 2 threaded holes for the bypass valve which you unbolt every time you need the intercooler moved from the engine bay. If you use the factory bolts you know that your bpv gasket falls out when they are removed.. and now you have two more bolts to keep track of.
When you are making everything else in your engine bay look nice, might as well put nice shiny studs and nuts on the tmic!
The stud kit replaces those two bolts with studs and nuts. Therefore you no longer have to worry of cross threading or galling up the threads of your intercooler when reinstalling the bpv. If you end up crossthreading the studs you can easily remove them with an allen key and replace them. Which speaking of is all it takes to install these bad boys, an allen key easily threads them in and you can slap your bpv back on, tighten the nuts down and be back on the road faster than you can say ringlands.
This is all it takes to make life that much easier!
Now when your "friend" grabs the 3/8ths impact or puts the ugga-dugga smack down to install your bpv, there is no fear of a intercooler will need to be helicoiled or replaced. I truly enjoy this product much more than any one should, it is a simple mod but it just makes your life so much easier. It often makes you wonder why the top mount wasn't manufactured with studs from the factory.
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