Side Vented Fridge Improvements

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Been working on the fridge, a Dometic RML8500. First steps were fix, if possible the errors made at the factory (did they even look at the Dometic installation requirements?):
1. Vent square inches too small
2. sealing weatherstrip put on wrong surface allowing for gap around fridge to inside of coach.
3. Cabinet floor cut too short allowing rear two feet of fridge to hang off edge causing fridge to be tilted slightly backwards at top and making air leak into coach even bigger at lower half.
4. Distance to back wall greater than 1" with no baffles to remedy per Dometic instructions.
5. Flue not extended to outside using the Flue Vent Extractor kit per the instructions, instead the hot flue gasses pour out under the condensers and find their way out of the compartment through the upper side vent.

As far as the vents, I have found some with 3 rows of vent holes as opposed to the two rows mine have. They are 1" narrower than my existing but I think I can center them in the existing cutouts and fill the gaps from behind with no gaps showing on the outside due to the flange being big enough to hide them. I added the weatherstripping to the proper surface where the fridge will actually contact it when pushed in, added two more feet inside the back edge far enough in to not drop off the shelf and I added 1" of aluminum faced rigid foam to the back wall bringing the distance down to the recommended 1" or less to force airflow over the condensers.

The gas venting is still being worked out and maybe some of you can offer advice. I had thought of 2 options:
1. extend the existing vent up higher where it will no longer dump hot gasses into the condensers but instead dump out up at the upper vent level
2. Install a thru the wall kit to bring the gasses outside and wrap the pipe where it passes beneath the condensers with Kaowool (good for 2,500F) which I have a supply of left over from building my forge.

The upper vent is too high to use the one where the flue kit is integrated into it so I would have to use the separate vent which I found on ebay for $29 unless I extend the pipe up, but those vents are bigger than I think I can fit.

In addition to these remedies I am also planning on re-locating the condenser fan which points off to the side instead of straight thru the condensers (which they may have done in an attempt to push away the hot flue gasses which rise thru the condensers on that side) and possibly adding a second one, and I am adding a curved deflection plate at the top of the compartment to prevent hot air from accumulating there and two slow speed cooling fans at the top vent to aid convection.

Any and all advice welcomed.