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[gooseman]

http://autospeed.com/A_110860/cms/article.html

Ran across this in my search for intercooler piping. This would be sweet since I have access to a torch and solder/flux, but not a welder.

Antone here done this?

[92CXyD]

Copper is usually more expensive than aluminum (depends how you acquired it)

Copper is a great conductor of heat even more efficient than aluminum.

Besides everybody know PVC intercooler piping is where is at.  ;D




BTW the article on the site are entertaining. Some cool ideas on there. :yes:

[onlyflash944]

Antone here done this?

i haven't, but there is no reason you can't if you have the materials and tools to do it

[7808]

if the stuff cheaper then i thought, and i could map gas solder it, id try it

[bigdaddyvtec]

buy a rope and tress are free

[crttaz]

copper is NOT cheap......why do you think all the hoodrats are breaking into vacant homes and ripping out the piping......but I've no problems sweating the connections.

[crxvtec91]

Besides everybody know PVC intercooler piping is where is at.  ;D

Damn right, thats what I used on my first kit, I had painted it flat black!

[92CXyD]

Besides everybody know PVC intercooler piping is where is at.  ;D

Damn right, thats what I used on my first kit, I had painted it flat black!

Yeah if you look at Specter Performance intake piping kits in parts stores that cater to the ricers.
They make a chrome painted piping kit that locks together.  ;D

Already main stream sort of.

[patsmx5]

Looks cool on the surface, but it's not needed. I run steel pipes that are painted and my AIT's post IC are 4-8*F over ambient when in boost, cause the IC isn't 100% effective, maybe 90% effective. My hotside IC pipe might drop 5*F from the charge before it goes in the intercooler. But even if I put a copper one that dropped 20*F from it, once the IC takes away 90% of the temp delta, the result would be 3-7*F above ambient probably. Negligable.

[7808]

copper is NOT cheap......why do you think all the hoodrats are breaking into vacant homes and ripping out the piping......but I've no problems sweating the connections.

i thought maybe with years of stolen copper being recycled + the fact newer houses use less copper and more snap together plastics plumbing shit, maybe the prices took a dump?

[onlyflash944]

copper is NOT cheap......why do you think all the hoodrats are breaking into vacant homes and ripping out the piping......but I've no problems sweating the connections.

i thought maybe with years of stolen copper being recycled + the fact newer houses use less copper and more snap together plastics plumbing shit, maybe the prices took a dump?

prices took a dump when china had the olympics.  they shut down industry for like 3 weeks to clean the air up and thus every bit of scrap that goes to the slant eyes got backed up in the states.  then theres this recession thingy

[PhilStubbs]

damn, i was just thinking abou this the other day. not that i planned to do it, but it seemed like a very easy way to make charge pipes.

[onlyflash944]

damn, i was just thinking abou this the other day. not that i planned to do it, but it seemed like a very easy way to make charge pipes.

it is, if you can find a cheap source of copper. 

[PhilStubbs]

yea, cost was the big factor in why i wouldnt do it.

[bigwig]

High thermal conductivity is not always good.  If its hotter under the hood than it is in the intake pipes, I see no reason you'd want to use aluminum/copper.  On the hot side, in theory, always use a material with a high thermal conductivity.  On the cold side, it's a questionable choice.  I'd personally use whatever is cheapest.

[gooseman]

Scratch it. I got some pipe from a buddy. I will use PVC for what ever pipe I don't have.

[slappynuts]

I bet you could use alumiweld and a tailpipe expander to sweat aluminum charge pipes. Whos going to be the first to try it?

[NoPistons!]

I thought about using baby seal foreskin for couplers and hollowed out whale bones for charge piping.

Mink on the seats, snake skin on the wheel.

Pimp.


I couldn't see any reason to use copper charge piping when you can use brake kleen cans......