Alright so I got everything buttoned back up and all is well no mess ups or anything breaking....good! When I decided to do this I figured why not take the whole i.c out and give it a bath and get all the crap out of it. Well I used muriatic acid like you use for pools and to clean the fins on your home a/c unit. Poured it and and wow the smoke from it eating all of the crap. Took a hose to it and it was a dirty brown coming from the fins. So now nice and clean.
Once I took the shroud off I didn't give it much thought to look at it until after I put everything back together. With the shroud on you only give the middle of the i.c and shroud 3/4" of room to breath. Well you will see in the pics that the shroud has a bar right in the middle!!! It stops the air from completely at one point. To me this was just put there to keep the shroud strong but also blocking air.
I did take the car on a little drive and where I usually do 50mph the way it was stock would reach 99-103* and that is around 4 miles of road non stop. Now with the shroud off it went down to 94-96* so it did help a bit to keep cooler. Of course when you slow down the i.c gets hotter but I am more worried about while driving. So I will try and get some data when I get onto the fwy tomorrow and see how it does then. So far it's working better
Here are the pics
Stock shroud
Shows how much room there is behind the crash bar
Now with it off
To help see how much more room the middle has
And then here is that stupid bar on the shroud
