Something I should pass onto the lad who is going to be doing the work, is it a bitch?
yup, you wont be able to fit the oem fan shrowd behind it (maybe if you don't have APS kit it might work but not chance if you do have it!)
I couldnt fit any type of shrowd and had to use fan fitting kit for my slim fans that I got. 10" fans, I could have gone 12" but they're is little need since they do very little over 20mph+ (and if they're is a fan it'll restrict flow anyway. If you need any help fitting the fans let me know, I'm guessing you can't re-use the oem cabling so you need to be a bit nifty with the install...
Ah bolox this sounds like a nightmare. I have mishimoto fans and shroud inbound in the mail, hopefully they will fit ok since they looked a bit slimmer, otherwise my mechanic will have to engage in a bit of jiggery pokery or ill have to send the bastard back and fork out even more money.
might be easier to fit if you take the bumper off and the support stuff and fit it that way. I ripped out the old rad shrowd, ripped out the old rad and fitted my new rad by sliding it down. Might be much easier when you don't have a tt fitted, the AC pipes will be moved out of the way either way. But you won't have the IC pipes to battle with. Make sure to give whomever are fitting this stuff enough info to do it so they dont destroy it