XSTransAm

I couldent afford what the shops wanted to charge me so i fabbed the pipes up myself, what ya think?

Railgun

Nice...maybe you can do mine too!

I take it you just got multiple bends and cut what you needed?

XSTransAm

yeah, i spent like 200$ on 2 1/2" bends and went at it... took me 5 hours start to finish

93BlackFD

so you bought prebent pipe and have an aluminum welder or what?

SWAT81

iTrader: (14)

lolz this is what my friend did as well, only he used plumbing pipes that are dull aluminum and it came out beautiful. He cut them and got extra couplers to make the angles right.

J.S.J

I think you did a great job. The thing is along the way you got a education of sorts. We all know how we would do things if we had the money or equipment but sometimes it more valuable to just dig in ourselves. I like the setup and thats a big cooler.

XSTransAm

yeah i just bought prebent and cut them to size, their are 7 seperate peices total. I coupled all the pipes together with silicone....

maybe somewhere down the line ill have the pipes welded together, but for now i think this will do the job.

su_maverick

XS, what IC did you go with?

XSTransAm

the core is a one of the hyperflow cores that my company used to sell for the wrx.

su_maverick

must be nice. I hate living in a condo, they wont let me work on my car.

XSTransAm

yeah my apartment is 200 miles away at school... my boss is nice enough to let me work on the 7 at the shop though

for the summer im couchin it at my friends house, lol

RX7WEEE

iTrader: (16)

Get rid of the stock intake elbow! get a Greddy!

MakoDHardie

Hey, those came out real nice. Did they come polished, or you do them yourself? I'm gonna need to do some pipe work to get my TO4R hooked up to my vmount this week. I'll probably try to get the car to a truck shop to have them cut the inlet pipe on the IC and rotate and reweld it, but I need something to get me to the shop. I've got the stock IC flex hoses, but if there's something else that comes along and works better, I"ll pick it up and sort out my couplings.

XSTransAm

yeah i know, ive just dumped like 8k into teh car this summer... ill probably get the greddy in a few months.. the pipe will be easy enough to change whenever i get it.

XSTransAm

I got the pipes from a couple different places, some were polished and some werent.

Snook

iTrader: (12)

very nice you did a great job I know thats hard to do
is there a place I can buy the right size intercooler piping from and right gauge metal
i need like 5 feet of aluminum no bends and maybe a 90 off of the turbo

XSTransAm

i got all mine from local shops so i couldent tell ya.

a place called idk performance on main street in damascus maryland had the polished prebent piping for like 25$ each bend. look um up on google