Ok I know this is stupid but I am new to the forced induction thing. Do I weld my pipes from my turbo to my intercooler and my intercooler to my intake together or do I use silicone pipe connectors? Like the bend and stuff.

 

you can weld them together. the less coulpings the better IMO.

http://www.jcwhitney.com < they sell u bends and piping
http://www.turbohoses.com < for all of your coupling needs

 

I used a total of 6 couplers including t/b, turbo compressor, FMIC everything. The less couplers the better, but you do them there for ease of installation. You can be a pretty good judge of where to weld and where to use couplers by just looking @ the car

 

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I only use a total of 3 couplings !

 

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Ditto what the others said, but just dont try welding the piping TO the turbo and TO the intercooler. That would be bad.

 

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How did u only use three? The compressor, both sides of intercooler and t/b is already 4 couplers? I dont get it? I did the J style bend off the turbo meeting coupler under/near a/c compressor then a u bend meeting the inlet of FMIC, and then a u bend out the outlet of FMIC and welded a 90 facing up. Meeting next coupler(near a/c line) then 90 bend welded toward firewall to straight charge pipe and then a bend to t/b. So i have a total of 4 couplers on the necessary pieces and 2 in between.

This was my first piping kit that i made from U bends so my measurements were made by eye and my tape measure. If i had a kit already to build off of i'm sure i could have been alot easier, but hey everything is in tact

 

If he has the FR setup I believe he could get away with only three. One on TB, another from the IC to intake and last from the turbo to IC. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

 

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You are correct sir. Setups with the backdoor style intercooler will need one less coupling.

 

or if you are really serious you can go with theese things. http://www.burnsstainless.com/....html

but DAMN they're expensive.

 

. http://www.burnsstainless.com/....html those are nice but as stated expensive