So I removed the piping that comes out of the intercooler and goes to the intake manifold and I noticed the whole length of the piping had a thin layer of rust. Has anybody noticed thier piping? I was thinking it could be maybe leak in the turbos watercooled system but I have no loss of coolant.

 

Bump

 

I dont think its a leak, it's probably from condensation inside the pipe. After the air passes through the intercooler it's temperature/pressure drops which can cause condensation to form.

It's actually a problem plaguing F150 Ecoboosts that ive been reading about

 

Stock piping??

 

No it's not stock piping .

 

Great! Yes now that makes sense, thanks.

 

Let me guess ETS mild steel intercooler piping.I have this rust problem and ETS would not do anything about it.

 

Most likely, the pipe was made of mild steel or a low quality stainless. It's pretty common to see surface rust. Moisture can come from humidity in the air, condensation from hot/cold, moisture in the air while raining, etc. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

Yes!!!! ETS!!! What I did is spray a light coat of WD40 on it before putting everything back together.

 

Same here!

 

They will upgrade you to SS piping pretty cheap assuming you made the original purchase of the piping.

 

Why do they use steel and not aluminum? Esp raw mild steel, anyone involved with the design and production should have seen this coming.

 

^^^This...I had this issue close to 4 yrs ago with my ETS UICP. I sent my rusty UICP back & they gave me a decent discount on an SST UICP.

 

I do not like Al for IC piping myself. Easily crushed, dinged etc... Been there done that never again.

Supposedly ETS stated that the mild steel was not an issue in their neck of the woods when they started out and it was when they started moving parts all over the globe they would see the rusting.

I know SS was an option on their site way back and the default was MS. They no longer use any MS in their piping it's all SS now

 

Guess what, aluminum piping can rust out too. This is a problem with the side mount intercoolers on DSMs.