Fitted A Alloy Intake Pipe Today

[R31Nismoid]

That means your factory one was sucking shut ever so slighty.

Simply replacing the material does not directly affect anything.

Size = same

Volume = same

Amount of air going into the turbo = same

Therefore there is NO increase UNLESS your current one is closing over a bit.

Unless you are 150% sure your factory one was not even slightly sucking shut, i'd be saying that is what you have inadvertently fixed

[James_03]

Hmm fair enough.

Im running 20psi on a set of gt-rs turbo's using stock gtr intake piping, never had an issue.

I thought that was the idea of the wire inside the piping, so it holds it's shape for this very reason. Don't think I would go to the trouble but just for the bling bling.

[R31Nismoid]

GTR piping has springs/metal inside it to hold it open, sometimes they do require some love

I don't recall GTS-t piping having that

[dori34]

i dont think gtst intake piping has springs in it either.

but rev210s diy intake pipe mod is a good idea.

[geraus]

dammit! its doing my head in! i've tried everywhere today!!!! i cannot find this 30mm pipe!!!!!!!!!!!! anyone knows let me know ASAP! ive tried purple cop, enzed, VPW performance....! blahaa!!!!!!!

[dori34]

i think it might be easier if you take it to a exhaust place and get them to cut that piece off and weld on a proper size opening to fit stock return hose size (or they can just weld it on top of the piece now)

[Cjmartz2k]

hate to say it but this is what you get for cheap knock off items on ebay / 2nd hand traders

its probably autobahn 88 or something cheap etc

if it was a legit HKS or Trust item it would be about sub $500 and fit perfectly and mate up

but if its a knock off $80 item what can you expect?

For $420, I'll trim my filter and run a couple of new hoses.

That means your factory one was sucking shut ever so slighty.

Simply replacing the material does not directly affect anything.

Size = same

Volume = same

Amount of air going into the turbo = same

Therefore there is NO increase UNLESS your current one is closing over a bit.

Unless you are 150% sure your factory one was not even slightly sucking shut, i'd be saying that is what you have inadvertently fixed

Do you have some sort of testing to back that "information" up? I'm not saying the factory intakes don't get sucked shut sometimes, but that pipe is smooth and gently tapers down into the turbo as opposed to the factory when which has those accordion style ridges and doesn't taper as smoothly. Also, please don't tell me about the ridges stopping air from going the opposite direction and back into the MAF. They wouldn't stop squat, and I ran the HKS metal intake pipe way back in the day with no problems. Now if you have some numbers to back all this up, I'd be very interested to see them, otherwise I'm going to call all of that what it is. Namebrand nut swinging combined with "fact" based on a high post count.

[mad082]

i'm pretty sure that the stock pipe is smooth on the inside, despite have the ridges on the outside.

[Cjmartz2k]

It's not.

[geraus]

im running it now went drifting last night and works good!