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Toymods Club Treasurer
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Sydney
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May 2002
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Intercooler Piping
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Wed, 23 April 2003 00:50
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Can someone suggest a place to make up intercooler pipes?
I'm not after show quality type work, but the piping is going to be real tight to get 2 parallel pipes through the bumper past the front fog lights. Plus my inlet manifold has to have the bend on the end cut off & turned around.
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I supported Toymods
Location:
Perth WA
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Intercooler Piping
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Wed, 23 April 2003 15:46
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Just for a laugh search for the same topic on Supraforums.com to see the discussion on plastic intercooler pipes. There are some dudes in the states that use PVC poly pipe (like for storm water drains) and elbows to make up their intercooler pipe. I guess if you aren't boosting up too much it would probably hold, but also check out the discussion on underbonnet temps.
It does make a kind of sense though, the original pipes were made of rubber/plastic.
It would be a great one to explain to the cops if you get pulled over!
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I supported Toymods
Location:
melbourne
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June 2002
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Re: Intercooler Piping
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Thu, 24 April 2003 06:50
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hmm, i dunno about PVC. the fact that you can use a heat gun to bend it into shape, what is a turbo if it isn't an air heater?
one of my friends was using pvc piping as an interim measure on his car we put a GTIR SR20 DET into, but held together with electrical tape, he took me for a drive to work out why it was so sluggish. turns out it blew all the tape off and was just blowing air out all over the place. i said "maybeye it is this giant gaping hole in your cooler pipes"
he tapes it back up reall good and it went off tap, until it made a "pop" noise and blew all the tape off again.
short version: don't use PVC pipe on a turbo engine.
i'd say, do it yourself, buy the bends at an exhaust place, heaps of good hose clamps, some straight pipe and decent quality radiator hose.
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cambo
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Intercooler Piping
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Thu, 24 April 2003 09:34
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HIJACK!
people with gze sprinters (i know again) do you run the pipes to sperate sides or use a cooler with the pipes on the same side and run the pipes to the passenger side? get me? cause running the to either side would mean a 180 degree bend on the drivers side but it would use less piping meaning less delay for boost than running both to the passenger side.
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