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Other than the Perrin, APS, AVO, who makes a reasonably priced silicon intake, that is any good?
This is for standard mount turbo with the intake running under the intake manifold.

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I got my perrin one all the way from turbo to airbox for $400. Avo is like 550 or something. Prospeedracing.com.au sell one for $270, not sure of the quality. And it's about 60-70 more for the short tube that goes to airbox so it works out to be around 350.

The cheapies probably aren't worth the trouble. Not only with poor fitment but are known to cave in under higher boost.

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Thanks EMS, but they've got nothing like what I'm after.
This is what I mean
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb257/fatcat67_photos/300_intake_002.jpg
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http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb257/fatcat67_photos/gdb_enginebay001.jpg

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I got my perrin one all the way from turbo to airbox for $400. Avo is like 550 or something. Prospeedracing.com.au sell one for $270, not sure of the quality. And it's about 60-70 more for the short tube that goes to airbox so it works out to be around 350.
The cheapies probably aren't worth the trouble. Not only with poor fitment but are known to cave in under higher boost.
I had heard of the cave in but thought it was at higher boost levels. Eg: 25psi+
Hell that is expensive. AVO have one at US$299 ATM, but it's only on their US site, really f##ken stupid considering they're made here.
I might check Prospeed racing. Is that Troy?

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fatcat67;132605 wrote:

I might check Prospeed racing. Is that Troy?
Yea that's correct

I'm suprised at the price of silicone items in general, I was looking for a 2" 90deg elbow and some places were asking $70-80, ended up buying from turbo xs for $45 including two T clamps.

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Cheers Jet.
Did you find any real gains from this or was it part of a bigger upgrade?

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Will be part of a bigger upgrade, it's not even on the car yet. Seems to be a pretty popular mod these days, faster spool and more peak power (like 5kw I was told) is to be made.

The stock item looks really restrictive when you put them side by side.

I'm only really doing it as I want to make the most out of the upgrade while keeping the car looking stock.

Standard airbox, silicone intake into a td05h-20g, sti top mount with water spray and turbo back exhaust, and a walbro pump. Won't be able to get defected and will still be producing over 200kw big_smile

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I too will be after one of these shortly.

Great to see the question has been asked already.

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CRUISN;132663 wrote:

I too will be after one of these shortly.

Great to see the question has been asked already.
Do you have a brand in mind that you have researched or priced?

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X3E motorsports (sponser) also have them

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rxliberty2000;132694 wrote:

X3E motorsports (sponser) also have them
Thanks:blush:
Bloody cheap, only thing I'm unsure of is whether it fits the 05 2.5t.
Do you have one of these Michael?

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make sure you get this tuned when you add it on, as i've heard these cause compressor surge and overboosting.

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fatcat67;132692 wrote:

Do you have a brand in mind that you have researched or priced?
Id only briefly looked into it on the net, no serious research yet on my part.

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No I don't
But guys on the local wrx club have run them on wrx's
They all seem pretty happy with them.

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http://stores.ebay.com.au/ZENARacing

These guys have pretty much everything in the way of silicone inlets tubing etc, very fast delivery & cheap, offer them 15% less than they are asking.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c119/d_generate/CIMG0358.jpg

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d_generate;132774 wrote:

http://stores.ebay.com.au/ZENARacing

These guys have pretty much everything in the way of silicone inlets tubing etc, very fast delivery & cheap, offer them 15% less than they are asking.

http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c119/d_generate/CIMG0358.jpg
Thanks for that link. They have great prices.
Do you know if they are 3, 4, or 5 ply silicon? I'd love your feedback on the quality.
It's just that that looks too good to be true, so I'm a little wary of the quality and wonder if the cheaper versions may collapse under pressure.

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From memory they are 4 ply, I've shown it to Steve at MMS who builds Dean Herridges rally car & many more(third at this years Targa Tasmania) & the guy from MRT when he was over here (not Brett) who does all their rally development work, can't remember his name & they both said it was excellent for the price & as good as the other Non homoligated ones, induction sounds great too. I think that's about as good a feedback as you can get.
I've bought off these guys about 10 times now & put a few mates onto them & can honestly say they are one of the best & fastest eBay companies I've dealt with, bookmark them.
I think the only way this thing could collapse would be if you were running 50psi & your air filter suddenly got blocked, they are jammed in pretty tight & you have to do a little bit of trimming here & there.
One more thing....offer them $90.50, they reply pretty quickly & that's about what they were taking on the US site but no lower, if they won't accept just go up $2 at a time, but I wouldn't bother going any lower, we've tried.

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Did you find it improved output much?

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Really hard to say as I fixed 4 different boost leaks at the time, my std BOV goes FHSSS again LOL, every hose on my top mount was leaking but the car feels a hell of a lot quicker, feels like it would pull a high 12 now but they are supposed to be good for up to 15kw & def less restrictive.

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do you think it's possible to butcher one of those you've pictured and add a second arm to go the primary on a TT setup?

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Not that expensive so you could always give it a try, I've never seen what a TT one looks like.

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Hi Mate,
here is a pic of the TT under inlet pipe.
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l236/DjbLibHeritage/Other%20Libertys/Intake%20Duct/ADM_B4_intake_duct.jpg

As you can see the turbo inlet on the secondary (inline with the intake) is much smaller than a single and there is the additional arm that goes out to the primary.

Kosti's also pictured the pipe that comes down and into the primary from the BOV, it clutters the pic a little, but you get the idea.

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GOOD GREIF!!!! That's farking HUGE, you'd need a parts bin sitting in front of you to get all those bends, I think a single turbo conversion would be cheaper & easier.

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d_generate;133805 wrote:

GOOD GREIF!!!! That's farking HUGE, you'd need a parts bin sitting in front of you to get all those bends, I think a single turbo conversion would be cheaper & easier.
Ha Haaa, very funny DGEN.  I've seen 2 threads on getting one of theses built in silicon for TTs and they've all fallen in a heap.

I've got a spare that I'm willing to donate to the cause and drive it along, if someone can get me some details of a company that designs/makes this stuff.

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