So i'm driving back from lunch, and I'm getting on it pretty good and all of a sudden i hear a loud POP sound and my car is pretty much dead in the water. I'm thinking, oh crap I just dropped the transmission somehow, look behind me and don't see anything on the road, try to give it some gas and the rpm's don't even move. Get pulled over to the side of the road, pop the hood and see the upper most intercooler turbo pipe that sits nearest to the firewall had popped itself right off! Over the weekend I installed a catch can, hks rs intake and a new BOV and I had that whole pipe off. I guess I didn't tighten it enough and it slowly worked itself off until it was just about off and my last run up thru the boost was enough to make it fully come off. You can bet your *** that the clamp/screw is on there tight as hell now! Scared the **** outta me!

 

yeah. that happens.
thats the biggest problem with that factory flex pipe. its seriously blows up like a balloon and pops off. had it happen to me a few times on my eclipse and so far twice on the evo.
at least now in the future youll know what the problem is as soon as it happens.

 

ya the same shi* happend to me like 2 weeks after i got my car comen down 80 i almost pissed in my pants didnt know what the **** happend had the car towed cuz i didnt know better at the time came on here stated what happend seconds later i had bout 10 guys tell me what happend and felt much better still made mitsu fix it cuz i wanted to be on the safe side now i got T clamps on most of my ic pipes.
allways have extra clamps and screw driver and socket set in my car from now on.

 

I'm going out tonight to buy a small set of screw drivers and a small socket set to keep in my glove box..i had to put it back on by hand and drive ever so gingerly back to work till i could get a screw driver

Are T clamps alot better than the ones on there now? What do they look like?

 

only happened to me after i turned the boost up

 

never happend to my evo but had it happen couple of times on my old mazdaspeed protege, If it happens again spray alittle hair spray on the rubber connecting tube and it will help hold it alot without makeing a big mess.

 

that would scare me 2! always be sure to tighen what you untighten

 

It happened to me once on my Eclipse, pretty interesting and scary, especially when you're doing 80 mph.

 

I always hear about this, but it has never happened to me. I can't wait until I get new IC piping.