Homemade intercooler piping
Thanks for the compliments.
All in all, I wanted to make something myself. I have been working too much on custom turbo projects for friends and on my previous car to want to just buy brand name items. I just purchased a few bends and went to town.
If you really wanted to calculate savings.
Mini battery setup
85 bucks
UICP
~200
LICP (next project with left over pipe from the UICP project)
~40
Intake
~60
So, for a total of about 400 bucks I will have changed all the pipes on the car to shorter routes plus added the battery kit. And I had the chance to rip apart the car and put some wrench time in with some friends and some beers
All in all, I wanted to make something myself. I have been working too much on custom turbo projects for friends and on my previous car to want to just buy brand name items. I just purchased a few bends and went to town.
If you really wanted to calculate savings.
Mini battery setup
85 bucks
UICP
~200
LICP (next project with left over pipe from the UICP project)
~40
Intake
~60
So, for a total of about 400 bucks I will have changed all the pipes on the car to shorter routes plus added the battery kit. And I had the chance to rip apart the car and put some wrench time in with some friends and some beers
Well I had the chance to make the intake pipe from the compressor inlet to the air filter. I had to add the recirc tube and i tapped a hole for a fitting to go to the boost control solenoid
Total cost of intake, 60 bucks.. not too bad for just a dumb engineering student.
No stumbling at idle or any hesitation. I am taking it easy with the car as add parts until it is ready for a tune though and I will see just how good/bad these homemade parts perform.
Also, it poured down rain last night, no water on the filter. I am not worried about that at all. We had about an hour of downpouring without any water on the filter. I guess if you plan stuff out a little, sometimes it works.
Total cost of intake, 60 bucks.. not too bad for just a dumb engineering student.
No stumbling at idle or any hesitation. I am taking it easy with the car as add parts until it is ready for a tune though and I will see just how good/bad these homemade parts perform.
Also, it poured down rain last night, no water on the filter. I am not worried about that at all. We had about an hour of downpouring without any water on the filter. I guess if you plan stuff out a little, sometimes it works.
Dude...i think this is one of the sickest post's ive seen in a while. people get so stuck on buy other peoples products, even i do. but this brings me back to my talon. i made everything on it.
ive been looking for ICP and i might just have my buddies hook it up and start a project like this...
Looks great!
ive been looking for ICP and i might just have my buddies hook it up and start a project like this...
Looks great!
