How to fix crappy fitment w/ treadstone kit.

Ordered the following from siliconeintakes.com
1 x T-Bolt Clamp for 2.75" Silicone Parts (CLA000103)
7 x T-Bolt Clamp for 2.5" Silicone Parts (CLA000102)
1 x 2.5" Silicone 30° Elbow, Black (SIL000196)
2 x 2.5" Silicone Hump Hose, Black (SIL000015)

Also 3 x random washers that gave me a half inch of height when placed together.

Now then.. can you reuse the tbolt clamps treadstone sends? Sure, but the tbolts aren't angled and I was done giving myself a hernia trying to fit them onto the intercooler/over the pipe beads.

1. Replace couplers on the intercooler with the bump couplers. This will allow for rather generous movement for the piping that doesn't line up at all.

2. Replace the coupler that joins the two hot pipes together with the 30* coupler as it needs a bend because the fucking pipe is angled back towards the radiator because treadstone has their piping made by a bunch of retarded 5 year olds. I needed to trim down the coupler as the one from silicone intakes is rather long. Eyeball twice, cut once.

3. Unbolted the hotpipe from the intake manifold and placed the 3 washers under the piping mount and tightened back down. This gave me about a half inch clearance so that the hotpipe was no longer touching my valve cover.

4. After loosely fitting all pipes to couplers and adjusting everything, tighten all clamps down.

After doing all of this, the only slight rubbing I have is a metal fitting on the AC line slightly touching the hotpipe. I reused a piece of the 30* coupler I cut off as a buffer between the two.