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Hey all,

I'm lookin for some front mount piping to DIY, I wanna do the pipes the right way around (ie, no cold air-over-the-hot-engine) deal, noone seems interested in doing a job like this for a decent non-exorbitant price...

Gonna be needing a few bends/silicon hose/silicon reducers, piping.....

Where can I get some of this stuff from ?

Is the standard piping 2.5" ?

Cheers guys,

-Kym.

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i got my intercooler + piping for $1100ish landed which i thought was a pretty good deal. Then fitted it myself. Pipes do go over the top of the engine tho, where else are you gunna put em through?

$350 - $400 sounds awfully cheap, let us know how you go tho

Kim I did my piping myself ... wasn't too hard

I have a Hybrid 600x300 type thing. I used the standard piping down past the pod filter, and then the far side of the cooler (the cold side) turned back around behind the cooler to join up with the standard piping.

It worked well I think ... no extra lag noticed and was good enough to make nearly 250rwhp at SST on standard turbo.

I'm changing it soon though as I have a new turbo going on .. but for stock turbo the setup seemed to work well :cheers:

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slightly off topic but still on intercooler piping. who can make up custom cooler piping? ie which workshop? Not for my car, I got FMIC already :rofl: but for my bro's GT4 Celica. Looking mild steel but stainless would also be considered. I heard Per4manz can do cool piping? anywhere else?

Update: Picked up my SS Mandrel Bends and bits of pipe from Allbend Engineering in Ossie Park, cost me $104 all up, now I just gotta pick up some silicon piping reducers, and some hose clamps and put it all together...

I've decided to go with the 180degree bend on one side of the cooler to retain the stock return/output pipes. I'm going to do a comparison between the "over-the-engine" and using stock pipes myself as noone has any hard facts.....

hey strick,

glad to hear buddy. i went to allbends on friday, and he said that they only had 2 1/2inch pipe, so using a hybrid 3inch cooler would require reducers.

i would love to know how you go with the install, maybe some pics :D if you want a hand to help, let me know i would love to as i want to do the same for myself.

maybe we can get cheaper reducers or clamps if we buy bulk. let me know :(

God Bless,

Nate

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