Vararam Install
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Just as heads up if you have a Grand Sport or a Z06 they come with a full width oil cooler (roughly twice the size of the Z51 oil coolers) and as such fitting the lower snorkel between the frame and the oil cooler can be a huge pain. I struggled for hours with mine, finally when I called Vararam their tech recommended that I get a hot air gun and heat up the lower snorkel to a point where the plastic becomes malleable and basically bend/re-shape the lower snorkel in such a way so that it slides past the oil cooler. I was a bit dissapointed to have to be doing that on a nearly $500 intake.
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From: Hudson WI
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Just as heads up if you have a Grand Sport or a Z06 they come with a full width oil cooler (roughly twice the size of the Z51 oil coolers) and as such fitting the lower snorkel between the frame and the oil cooler can be a huge pain. I struggled for hours with mine, finally when I called Vararam their tech recommended that I get a hot air gun and heat up the lower snorkel to a point where the plastic becomes malleable and basically bend/re-shape the lower snorkel in such a way so that it slides past the oil cooler. I was a bit dissapointed to have to be doing that on a nearly $500 intake.
I have a ZO6 cooler on my car. My Z51 cooler was in the radiator.
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