mark chandler
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| posted on 29/5/09 at 10:22 PM |
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Turbo hoses, do you have to use silicon?
Budget is well bust on my turbo upgrade so stuffing another £80 on silicon hoses to mate the intercooler is looking a bit grim.
Is there anything else I can use that cheaper, its only passing air ?
Unless of course someones got 2 x 2" right angled elbows and 2 x 2" straight joins going cheap?
I already have the hard pipe, nice bit of free ali from an old scaffold tower, desperately trying to keep it locost 
Cheers Mark
[Edited on 29/5/09 by mark chandler]
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Z20let Corsa
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| posted on 29/5/09 at 10:30 PM |
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only thing you have to watch obviously using different things is the pipes 'sucking flat' under hard use.
locost +4 v8 in progress.
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blakep82
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| posted on 29/5/09 at 11:03 PM |
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silicone pipes are usually more pliable than rubber, so silicone would be more likely to suck flat i'd think. so rubber should be alright
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andkilde
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| posted on 30/5/09 at 12:22 AM |
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Factory stuff on my mitsu is rubber -- you can get cheap straight runs of silicone, it's used for radiator hoses on lorries and available by the
foot at truck repair places, they also carry t-bolt clamps.
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A1
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| posted on 30/5/09 at 04:07 AM |
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as joiners between hard pipes, silicone is okay, but you dont have to use it. the main reason people use it is it can put up with much higher
temperatures than the equivalent rubber hose.
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iank
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| posted on 30/5/09 at 08:05 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by A1
as joiners between hard pipes, silicone is okay, but you dont have to use it. the main reason people use it is it can put up with much higher
temperatures than the equivalent rubber hose.
I think a lot of people use it because of the 'ooh look shiny blue' effect 
CBS sell the bits you want, though it's probably available cheaper if you look hard.
http://www.cbsonline.co.uk/50mm-id-90-rubber-hose-bend-h9050-1044-p.asp
http://www.cbsonline.co.uk/straight-hose-50mm-2-hos50-582-p.asp
So that's down to £40 already.
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bilbo
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| posted on 30/5/09 at 08:56 AM |
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I ended up using the blue bling, simply because it's available in many different shapes and sizes in stock - If I could get the range in rubber
(or black silicone for the same price and stock availability as blue), I would have done. My donor used rubber.
Have a look at Rally Design. They have their own brand of silicon which is a bit cheaper than the usual stuff.
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flibble
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| posted on 30/5/09 at 11:16 AM |
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Being super duper extra tight, especially since redundance I trawled Fleabay for things such as
THIS (bad
example but you get the idea) with as many bends as possible that I could chop up and use
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Phil.J
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| posted on 30/5/09 at 02:12 PM |
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Always use metal tube where you can with the absolute minimum of rubber/silicone. Any panting of the silicone hose will only add to turbo lag effect.
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mark chandler
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| posted on 30/5/09 at 07:35 PM |
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I answered my own quetion, flibble was on track as been looking at landrover stuff.
Landrover Turbo D, uses 2" hose so nice straight sections and a nearly 90 degree bend on the induction manifold.
200TDI is nearer 2.5" and TD5 goes up towards 3", its all cheap to.
Regards Mark
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