Pipework Between Turbo And Afm

[l_uk3y]

Hey guys. Just wondering when people have upgraded their turbos what they have done with the pipe work between the turbo inlet and the AFM.

My Hypergear turbo has a larger inlet then the factory turbo (kind of makes sense really ). Now I am quite animate about wanting to stick with the factory Airbox and not a podfilter for legal reasons. Now if I can stick with the factory rubber intake which would be preferable I will be chopping the AFM side to add a metal intake.

So i guess the 2 issues im seeing is that I need to find some form of soft adapter to go over the turbos inlet. Then drop down in size to a hard inlet for the rubber pipe. I can see this is easy on paper. But in reality I will probably hit some drastic space issues.

What have you guys been using? Or does nobody make any effort to retain the airbox these days? (Even though half my engine bay is painted or being polished. I would like it to actually be an effort to find the defects and not just scream out at them.

Cheers for any help.

Luke

[kwickr33]

I'm currently running the same turbo. its pretty easy, just sleeve a 2.5 inch pipe into factory intake pipe, and clamp it over with a 3inch rubber hose to turbo's intake.

[boostn0199]

Just make a metal intake pipe first it will be better because it will be 3 inch and second its metal so no chance or getin sucked shut on hi boost , ive made my custom pipe modelled on the stock one and am still using th airbox

[scotty nm35]

+1 If the turbo intake is 3 inch you should run that size through to the airbox.

Alloy or stainless and paint it black if you want the stealth look, although its legal I think as long as you do keep the factory airbox and afm.

[boostn0199]

yeah if hes got the stock airbox its hard to see under all that snorkel and stuff and yeah ive painted mine black theres no chance of telling its metal unless you go and touch it