Thanks for telling your story about your mod, would you have the same result if you don’t use the cooling pad below the laptop and just the mods with the thermal pads? Thanks

When repairing, I accidentally broke a small piece of what it seems to be a resistor. Mac still works fine and diagnostics reports no errors. Be careful when removing the mother carefully so it doesn’t hit the aluminium cover.

if you’re using an M2 adaptor, be mindful to check the compatibility with the other end. In my specific case my adaptor was only compatible with M2 Sata and not with M2 NVMe.