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Hi All,

My cooler piping keeps on blowing off, and its great fun everytime cuz u get to pull over and get ur hands filthy putting it back on again, especially when its dark and ur on the side of the freeway with cars coming past at 100km/h almost swiping ur arse off while ur busy under the bonnet trying to the the pipes clamped up again!

Anyone know where i can get some hardcore hose clamps from? I got the standard hose clamps but since i started running some boost they always pop off. Had a look at autobarn and they didnt have shit ( i wasn't really expecting them to have what i needed anyway )

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Billy.

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Do ur pipes have lips on the end of them?

If not, then i suggest it might be worth going to a welder and for them to weld little beads on the ends of ur pipe in order for the clamp not to slip off that easy.

Than again stronger clamps might do the trick too :)

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Yeah those clamps look a lot more robust than the bodgy standard hose clamps i have at the moment. I tried a few hardware places and couldn't find any, i guess i'll check somewhere like ENZED and see if they stock them, i believe they deal just with hoses/connections etc. Does anyone know where i can get some of these in melbourne?

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Duncan Grand Master

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I like these ones, I get them from GCG:cheers:

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and get some silicon hoses at the same time.

BTW, I was never too worried about a cooler pipe popping off....until I saw Skylinegeoff's car catch fire due to the amount of fuel coming out a hot exhaust...check out his avatar!

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:werd:

and get some silicon hoses at the same time.

BTW, I was never too worried about a cooler pipe popping off....until I saw Skylinegeoff's car catch fire due to the amount of fuel coming out a hot exhaust...check out his avatar!

How does a cooler pipe popping off make your car catch fire ? it dosn't have anything to do with the flames comming out the exhaust ?

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Well....say the turbo is sucking 1 bar of boosted air (+the regular 1 bar air) thru the AFM, and blowing it out the open cooler pipe. Then the cooler inlet pipe sucks in the regular 1 bar air.

The ECU sees 2 bar of air coming into the engine even though only 1 bar actually makes it. It then puts in at least twice as much fuel as it needs.

As a result the engine runs (if it runs at all) super rich....heaps of fuel gets dumped down hot exhaust. In this case, the exhaust was hot enough to light the fuel in a 2 foot flame :D

Lucky he had a fire extinguisher in the car or it would have been pretty ugly.

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Well....say the turbo is sucking 1 bar of boosted air (+the regular 1 bar air) thru the AFM, and blowing it out the open cooler pipe.  Then the cooler inlet pipe sucks in the regular 1 bar air.

The ECU sees 2 bar of air coming into the engine even though only 1 bar actually makes it.  It then puts in at least twice as much fuel as it needs.

As a result the engine runs (if it runs at all) super rich....heaps of fuel gets dumped down hot exhaust.  In this case, the exhaust was hot enough to light the fuel in a 2 foot flame :D

Lucky he had a fire extinguisher in the car or it would have been pretty ugly.

Ok,

My thoughts were if your running an AFM meter and you blow a cooler pipe, the turbo will still be pumping 1bar, but the open cooler pipe will be trying to suck in standard air atmosphere pressure which will make your car to, pretty much stall instantly. The flame will be caused by the low amount of air intake in the cylinders, leaving excess fuel to hit the hot turbo and ignite. I don't think it would make the ecu put twice as much fuel as your car would be off by then..

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Anyone know where i can get some hardcore hose clamps from? I got the standard hose clamps but since i started running some boost they always pop off.

I get mine similar to SK's pix from Purple Pig in McIntyre Rd Sunshine I think - about $8 each.

Also I have put three equally spaced dimples in the end of the pipes about a centimetre in from end with center punch from the inside to give the hoses something to be gripped by the clamps.

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