Making a Silicone Turbo Inlet

[n2x4]

Since I bought the Mitsucrapshi I was on the forums and I found this:

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/article ... plers.html

DIY silicone hoses! Looks like an awesome idea, so I'm gonna make a silicone turbo inlet hose. I'm planning on replacing the intake resonator AND the 90 deg. turbo inlet with all the fittings and everything. I just ordered all the stuff - 25ft of fiberglass and a bunch of black silicone tape and liquid silicone. Order total came to $40. Far cheaper than any silicone hose.

What do you guys think??

[Adam West]

If you did that you would be officially hard core!

Looks like a tremendous PITA but the results coudl be cool. Let us know how it goes...

Cheers,

AW

[keirnna]

You just need an Apexi intake not a silicon inlet.

[BAC5.2]

Maybe consider doing two layers of the fiberglass hose. I'd wrap once, overlapping so you have a 2-layer thickness. Then, I'd wrap the thing with a coiled up coat hanger. Then wrap another layer so you have another 2-layer thickness.

I bet that would help prevent collapsing that some silicone couplers experience.

Overall, that's a cool method of doing things. Seems pretty labor intensive, but you can make custom parts this way! I wonder if it could handle the heat of coolant?

[the_watts10]

could you not just buy the silicone hose made for a wrx or sti?

[BAC5.2]

Not the way our intakes are set up.

If you are talking about for the radiator hoses, I'm thinking custom beyond the realm of Subaru's.

[keirnna]

Maybe consider doing two layers of the fiberglass hose. I'd wrap once, overlapping so you have a 2-layer thickness. Then, I'd wrap the thing with a coiled up coat hanger. Then wrap another layer so you have another 2-layer thickness.

I bet that would help prevent collapsing that some silicone couplers experience.

Overall, that's a cool method of doing things. Seems pretty labor intensive, but you can make custom parts this way! I wonder if it could handle the heat of coolant?

That is overdoing it, not that overdoing it is a bad thing, but a 3 layer hose is very hard to collapse if not impossible. All of the issues with collapsing hoses were with the 2 layer hoses. I had this problem on my 04 STI and it was a severe pain in the ass.

[n2x4]

I got all my parts in the mail today. I ordered at like, 7pm and got the parts before lunch next day. Woo!

I looked at the Apexi intake, and that only removes the resonator box. I wanna get rid of the 90 deg. inlet to the turbo as well.

I could make my hose a bit smaller, and get one of the apexi pieces to go on the end of it - but they seem kind of hard to find.

I'm not sure how overkill I'm gonna go with this hose. I know I have to watch out for collapsing but in the pics of the hose it's like 1/4 inch thick!

[keirnna]

Why get rid of a piece that you are not going to get any benefit from using a silicon hose on? You have to have a 90* elbow so I would take hard plastic over silicon...