Turbo intercooler pipe-What can I use that bends?

[60six]

Need to fabricate a long pipe from my front mounted 9000 intercooler.

Not interested in using stiff aluminium as I need too many bends. So far I have thought of:

Tumble dryer extraction hose - PVC tube with a spring along the inside.

Vacuum cleaner hose - It doesn't crush under suction but will have some movement.

Household drainage pipe with adapters (may need too many bends)
Swimming pool filter hose. (I think I will be laughed at using this!)

Open to any ideas - I have all the hose clips and plenty of spare rubber unions. Pipe has to be about 60mm.

Any ideas?

[Gaztretropower]

I used stainless exhaust pipe and bends on mine with silicone hose joiners

[60six]

Jun 17, 2012 19:40:21 GMT Gaztretropower said:

I used stainless exhaust pipe and bends on mine with silicone hose joiners

How much are silicone hose joiners? Will need quite a few and ones I have for the other saab 900 I have cost $$$$.

I just about made it fit

[Gaztretropower]

I get all mine from ebay,seller:800bhp,cheap as chips and only down the road from my work so I collect! ;D

[bortaf]

Jun 17, 2012 19:28:37 GMT 60six said:

Need to fabricate a long pipe from my front mounted 9000 intercooler.

Not interested in using stiff aluminium as I need too many bends. So far I have thought of:

Tumble dryer extraction hose - PVC tube with a spring along the inside.

Vacuum cleaner hose - It doesn't crush under suction but will have some movement.

Household drainage pipe with adapters (may need too many bends)
Swimming pool filter hose. (I think I will be laughed at using this!)

Open to any ideas - I have all the hose clips and plenty of spare rubber unions. Pipe has to be about 60mm.

Any ideas?

TBH i would have thought all of that list would blow appart under boost pressure seriousely, tumble dryer hose ?
What about flexable exhaust pipe ? but i wouldn't like to guess at the flow restrictions it would create not being smooth on the inside

[Johnny A]

Jun 17, 2012 19:28:37 GMT 60six said:

Tumble dryer extraction hose - PVC tube with a spring along the inside.

Vacuum cleaner hose - It doesn't crush under suction but will have some movement.

Are you serious?

That stuff would blow apart before you hit 5psi!!

At 10 psi plastic pipe would work, but seriously it's metal pipe and silicone joiners for you.

[sparkyt]

No easy ans to this on bud . Budget being a problem for me too but I just used ebay hunting .. and the elbows came via Volvo trucks

[meltedcheese]

I work at a boat builder and we need to fit a lot of breathing in the engine room to keep it happy, plastimo and vetus do a fairly cheap line of flexible, tough piping. May be worth a look. If you need me some more info on what we use just PM me

[ditchdigger]

I used radiator/coolant hoses for the bends on my turbo setup. Just went down to the shop and found a piece with a fair amount of bends that was the right ID. Cut it up and clamped it to pieces of exhaust tubing.

[chairchild]

don't forget - the pipe from the turbo to intercooler, can easily get upto temps of 100 degrees C. This is enough to melt pretty much ALL the above flexible options you gave

steel exhaust pipe, alloy tubing, and silicone connectors I'm afraid.


Pop into your local scrappy, and see what kinda piping you can find in there. Look for the diesel engined cars, and grab what you can from there

[lewist123]

if you have a welder you could fabricate it using lobster back bends and 60mm exhaust pipe.

[workinprogress]

it has to metal joiners and reinforced rubber/silicone hoses...anything else will just blow apart.

sorry but doing anything turbo related and penny pinching at the same time is a recipe for problems.

i'm guessing your running about 1 bar peak boost on what...so anything other than the above will just burst