look close at the piping from the turbo to the intercooler that is mounted right on top of the radiator in this add. he used pvc pluming that you use for drainlines for your house!

i would have posted the picture but i dont know how.

http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/car/223529863.html

 

Hey look, another RX ruined to become a "mad tyte" drift car!!

 

"well the car is already running into the 13's, seeing that it has no weight and a lot of horsepower" Show me some numbers proving that car holds boost and DOES run 13's.... I've drivin a T2 and I wasn't that impressed compared to my stock FD.....

That car is NASTY! I've seen plumbing COUPLERS used with metal piping, but never PVC pipe for IC piping!! WTF?!

 

I looked at that exact same listing last night! I didnt notice the piping though.. LOL!

I looked in the parts for sale last night and found an 82 rx with a roll cage and rb setup 13b running for $200, I should have grabbed it.

 

All you just hatin' on the real drifterz yo!

 

WOW he needs to go buy a honda and stop ruining good cars

 

Just when you thought you had seen it all.....

 

Your all just jealous that this guy can use drainO and a snake to clean his intake and you have to resort the standard practices.

You think he calls a plumber if hes having car troubles

 

You know, almost all stock turbo cars use plastic intercooler piping. I know its not as good as nice shiny mandrel bent aluminum, but it gets the job done, is cheap, and is still worlds better than the stock TMIC. I woulndt have mounted it where he has it, but you had an IC laying around, were in HS and couldnt afford AL, what would you do? I give the kid props for working with what hes got, and making it work. Although I woulda figured out a way to route thoe hose so I could get a filter on it....

 

love them mounting brackets too....

 

Ok ya, that is ghetto. I would of at least got some angle irons or something. the IC moving around is whats gonna make the pipes break.

 

 

I offered him $1k for the car. Lets see if he takes it, LOL.

 

I atleast would have use 3" plastic pipe.

Gotta give the guy credit for doing it cheap, and easy. I don't know how many of you guys have made your own IC piping, but its not allways super easy. This way simply is. Probably spent less than an hour doing all of this, where as my IC piping probably used 5+hrs of my time.

I think I'm going to stick with my current setup though. CJ

On a side note, schedule 80 pipe can take some serious pressure. My little brother is the asst. manager of our waste water company, and is in charge of the water distrabution at Norpac plant 5 (Just north of Salem). They use pressures upto 110psi, sometimes higher on accident.

 

It would be hard to argue at this point, but do realize the temperatures associated with an engine bay and even the temperature of the compressed air inside the inlet side at only 10 Psi compared to the melting temperatures of ABS?

I would make the argument he has never run it like that in an operational condition; does this now make it qualify as ghetto in the most liberal form of the meaning?

Besides isn’t that a pee trap I spy on the inlet side?

 

easy mang, my S4 only has 2.5" single exhaust(no cats) w/ full interior and runs 13's consistently. TII's ruled for their day. however, I don't have the mad tyte v-mount setup. I'd say that car would be a decent buy, easy to fix anyway.

btw, mine is for sale, but I want a bit more than this guy.
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...g=1&cardist=13

 

No, actually, I dont really know the outlet temps of the turbo at 10psi. But, according to google, PVC melts ata 175 or so, and ABS melts at 220. Has somebody called him? Id put money on the fact that he has been running, and running the hell out of it, with it like that. I know that if I had just "fab'd" up my own IC, Id want to drive the **** outta it. I really doubt that that pipe is going to fail at only 10psi. Would I run that at 15? probably not. Dont get me wrong, it is ghetto, but ghetto doestn neccesarily mean non-functioning.

 

I wonder if he glued the pipes together... If not there SHOULD be leaks. I used to plumb houses so I know how the pipes perform unglued.... 10psi the pipes would support easily, but the amount of AIR leaks tht could occur and the chances of the pipes blowing apart if not glued are pretty high...

 

Oh SNAP.....

He is running it completely off a NA ecu!

 

WHAT?! Please tell me it is not the STOCK NA ecu... if it is I would hope to GOD he has some sort of piggy back fuel management...... Otherwise I think we may have jsut found the reason he's asking 1500 for it!

 

AHAHAHAHA. It was stock NA ecu.

I bought it today for $1k.

 

damn. Id pay a frand for that. Congrats.

 

i believe that's sport model (no sunroof) well worthed $1000 if chassis is straight....

 

Omg!!!!

 

No... its a gtu... unless you count that he welded the sunroof shut..