i didnt say his shaved bay was a waste. i said doing all that work, then filling it with a WAIC is a waste. you shave it to declutter, not to add things to it. i know what kind of work goes into it, a friend and i have a car sitting completely bare, now in primer, hundreds of hours into it. i repsect hard work and never said i didnt.
if i took the time to shave a mk4 bay, i certainly would do a stealthy approach to a intercooler setup where you so as little as possible.