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No worries, Mr. HammerOn. Koolance emailed me back first thing and are looking over all the possible fixes since this morning. Based on the number of GBT boards I've confirmed the have the same capacitor locations, there is good reason to move quickly. Heck, some engineer in Taiwan most likely had to get out of bed and head to the factory.
Just throwing around a few obvious ideas, a bracket offset might be the quick answer and could look just fine since we're talking about a few millimeters. Given Koolance's level of quality, it will be something worthy of the price.
Soon as I hear what the final outcome is, I'll post again.
I'm dating myself, but Koolance made available an optional shim for the CPU-200 to solve the same problem, I still have it. It's round, about 1.5" diameter, 3mm thick gold plated chunk of metal to move the block up and out of the way of capacitors. The real downside was needing two layers and application of TIM...
As a re-design of the block would take a while, my bet is they'll come out with a shim.