Its not worth it, it would bling bling, that would be the only thing..

 

I'd say 6 lbs...

2 lbs for the piping
4 lbs for the lighter wallet

 

I'd have a hard time justifying Ti but, it's still cheaper than the Ralliart pipes.

 

It would be neat, but that is all. Hell I could eat grilled chiken sandwiches for two or three days and drop the 2lbs.....but I probably won't. It would be just for the bling, BUT, someone would buy it just to say that they have Ti intercooler pipes to go along with their Ti exhaust, header heat shield, etc. It is kind of like JDM,....."yeah, I have a lot of real JDM parts on my Evo, you know that they are better...."

 

its hard to really get serious about weight in a car that is as fat as the evo is. Instead of counting one or two pounds, just make more power.

 

Very true... one of the guys I did VR4 work with went so far as to drill (swiss cheese) many of the car's brackets, and buy $300 or so worth of aluminum bolts to lighten it up. I think he got it "all the way down" to 4040 lbs with him and a half tank of gas. That was about as far as he would go short of really stripping it out and making it a race car. The Ti piping would not be about real weight savings on the Evo. I'd still like to see it done though.

 

i would definatly be interested, i always say the more Ti on my car the better

 

I am definitely not doing it to gain any performance advantages over aluminum or to save weight. =) I just think it would look good in my engine bay.

 

Just so people know, aluminum is actually lighter than titanium for the same amount of material. Where titanium makes sense is in stress locations. In non stress applications like this, aluminum is actually a better material.

 

the ams pipes are already 600 i mean they include a blow off but shrugs...

for the same amount of material... aluminum pipes are not as thin as ti pipes. also ti offers some heat shielding benefits. aluminum is a better conductor as far as i know.

 

I'll be posting pics some time next week of the prototype. I may do an aluminum lower pipe and a Ti upper to reduce costs.

 

Given the cash outlay, I'd rather spend the money on a CF hood, remote battery mount, lighter wheels, etc. I guess for pure bling-appeal or those looking for the ultimate in weight savings it might be worthwhile. IMO, this type of upgrade signifies reaching the point of diminishing returns.

 

my stock strut bar weighed in at 7 lbs. my DC sports titanium weighed in at 2 lbs. I saved 5 lbs. I think you'd save prob at least 5 lbs if you did the whole piping kit. And i'd rather see titanium exhaust then piping.

 

yeah, that was my first thought... if you have a Ti mandrel bender, get some 3" pipe and make a Ti TBE... now we're talking!!

 

the stock strut bar is steel tho... beefy steel at that... i also realized those same weight savings... damn the BOX and the dc bar weighed less than the stocker!

but see you can get the ti piping in ADDITION to everything else that saves weight... that's the whole point... the ultimate weight savings...

i would agree the weight isn't gonna be a huge diff between al and ti but the heat rejection will be. people that say they have cold intake pipes after a hard stint don't know that a cold pipe means endothermic interraction. of course your pipe is cold... the air inside is sucking away all the heat and taking it into the engine! not that a warm pipe is gonna be good but you can't measure stuff that way!