Nath - looking forward to the pictures.

I assume the Coupé is back up and running now then?

Yeah mate its back on the road and running better than ever, just need to fine tune the Greddy to get the spikes ironed out.

I'll take some pics of the hard pipes in a min and upload them later on when i get back from town.

Tiny update,

gave the car a good 100mile run last sunday on the sw meet and in all hounesty it felt really good

So this has given me the enthuseasim to get the other pipe
made up before xmas

Ben

Thought i'll ask,

is there any intrest in these pipes as if not many people are ,

i will do it to my own configeration

Ben

since there is apparently no intrest i've done the top pipe to my own spec and space requirements

hopfully all done in thw new year

Ben

This must be like when you get old, eg; talking to yourself

Anyway the top pipe is now being fabicated and might have it back before xmas if not then the new year

Ben

be interested to see it benny. didnt put down the interest in case my i/c is slightly different (i dont have a real PA one, one of timpyeons copies), i guess the pipes need to made up for each car individually in that case

ive seen also that the compressor housing outlet on mine isnt the same angle as on yours, im having problems with silicon hoses getting burnt through by the downpipe., im still debating whether to:

a) get a custom 3 hole outlet adapter made and keeping the turbo how it is, then having hard pipes made up for this
b) rotating the turbo compressor, and having hard pipes made up.

either way, the car is a dialy driver, so any work would have to be completed in 1 day.

are you getting the top pipe made all the way up to the throttle body, or are you retaining the plastic bit which bolts to the rocker cover?

im sure that you have the best route, by going under the rad. i think i'll have to get a s/h rad support to play with as well.

There is a slight possibility that the one timpyeons fmic's
are slighty different to the pa one

As for clearence you will only have maybe 1' of play either
way if you rotate the compresser housing due to keeping the
wastgate rod straight

I have considered that everyone's setup is slighty different, so if i can make up a set of pipes w/ the shortest route and
w/ the miniamun of bends and its backed up w/ RRd graphs
it will give everyone an alternative route with added benifits

As for the top pipe its going straight from the throttle body to the intercooler

All of 2 bends

Ben

Tiny update,

the top pipe is being put into a jig to be fabricated today,

so there is a possibility it might be done tomorow

Ben

Nice sig Ben... whose is the red one

mini update,



The original length of the route from the outlet of the ic
to the throttle body is roughly 137cm and consistes of 5 bends.

hopfully when mine is done in the new year it will be a little shorter and only consist of
2 bends

Ben

Picking the induction pipe up next tuesday

Will post up some pics and how it fits next week.

Ben

sounds good!

**update**


All fitted this morning

Personaly a little bit of a tight fit but it seems ok

I need to buy a better fitting lower silicon hose, but temporaly i have used one of the exsiting pa one's

I have'nt run the car yet, but will give it a run tomorow
and see if there is a difference

pic

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pic

Ben

nice benny, i like it.

the bottom hose looks a little compressed on the bend, but as you already mentioned a better fitting hose will sort that.

werent you tempted to get that bend made in stainless too? then just use a straight silicon joiner, or hump hose? or is the extra silicon needed to counter any movement?

That lower hose is a little compressed but a new silicon one should do the trick,
as i dont really want to cut up the original one

Regarding the bend, i did have it in stainless but everything was a bit ridged

so i cut it off and made up the difference with a bend to allow a bit of flex in it all

So there is a few little niggles which im not happy with but
i hope to sort these out by the 31st powerstation rrd day

Anyway today i actually and hounestly managed to test the hard pipe on my friends private road which is a change

Spool up i would say the simaler as before but when on boost it pulled quite hard and effortlessly

So into 4th gear, foot down the coupe took off for a slit second i thought i was in 3rd then i suudenly realised i had to change gear

Apart from pulling much better when on boost i found the boost controller needed less gain to hold the desired boost.

So all in all quite succesful, just thoses few niggles to sort out

Ben

has anybody else had this done? I'm looking at going to that place in Wales, Pro-Speed exhausts? I'm hoping to take the pictures on this thread to get something custom-made, anybody got any advice on it, is this a good place to take it etc? Is it just the route from the end of the intercooler to the throttle body that I'm after, as per the 3 pictures?

Here's mine: some pics in this thread, http://sfk.ibk.se/forum/showthread.php?s...p;pagenumber=17

Many thanks Per, I think I've read all the way through that thread and the pics are great, some good stuff in there, can't make head or tail of the words, I'm sure there's some inspired tuning knowledge but it's all Greek to me. I think yours takes a similar route to Per's, out and straight up to the throttle body.