Ok, I'm cought in a delemia here. I don't know if I should just completely re-do my IC piping, or if I should leave it as is. I only plan to be running 9 psi. Here are my issues:

First:



That hose that connects the pipe to the throttle body and the next IC pipe, does that look safe? Would I be loosing any power because of that?

Next:



See the pipe under the turn singal? Does that looks like it works ok? There is a blue hose comming on the IC, and then connected to that pipe that goes down, and then back up into the engine bay.

Last problem:

I don't have a pic, but the pipe on the hot side of the intercooler is not mandral bent, so it has a nasty bend in it that shrinks the pipe down quite a bit. Is that a problem with IC piping, or are mandral bends not that important?

So at this point I'm thinking of:

A. Leaving it as is
B. Buying the Greddy IC piping
C. Doing custom piping. (which I have never done before and I would prob need some help)

Any help would be awesome, thanks.

 

come on come on come on

 

from what i can see, it looks just fine. Where it connects to the TB looks fine too. Without seeing a pic of what you are talking about with the pipe that hangs low, cannot comment, nasty is not a good description. Looks good though!

 

Here is a better pic of that lower IC pipe I was talking about:

 

still cant see much.

 

Here's where you lose power:


The biggest arrow (at that 50* turbo outlet) shows where you'll lose the most. Those bends and miles of piping are killing your system. Relocate that battery to the trunk, and get a straight shot from the turbo inlet to a straight intake tube, and go straight from that tentacle of an IC cold-pipe to the TB with only 1 bend - rather than 4. Compressed air hates making directional changes, and damn you've got lots of em. Those 2 90* bends on the hot side into the IC combined with that 50* bend out of the turbo is damn near a tragedy.

 

Oh, while you're at it, use a vice grip and a B.S. self contained $9 torch form Home Depot and flare the ends of all your piping till they looks liek the mouths of tubas. The air flow has a much easier transition that way and the piping bites into the couplings much better.

 

the on that is hurting u the most is the one out of the turbo outlet. also what size are ur intercooler??? If they are barely 2" you are not in the optimal diameter. You want around 2/5" for that big *** engine

 

unless you have that setup tuned very well and have a good 2.5" or bigger exhaust among other things, then you have bigger fish to fry than your IC piping. It's not that bad considering the car it's on. You shoulf just replace the crush bent part and call it good. Maybe reroute the hot pipe through that hole below the headlight (you'll have to enlarge it) so it's not so low.

Much of the piping you have looks like greddy stuff anyway. especially the blue color of many of your couplers and that cast 90* bend at the compressor outlet. So you might just end up buying half of the same parts you already have. It's not a perfect world so you can't have straight charge pipes. just use what you have since you can't fit it in there much differently anyway. The straight silicone part is fine also, leave it.