Different twist on IC and exhaust piping (clearance issues)

[SolidBoostTSi]

Well guys after alot of perusing random hotrod sites and being diverted to spam up the yin-yang I found this.... http://www.drgas.com/store/home.php?cat=8 This may be really usefull as far as space constrictions (not just our cars specifically) when fabricating One-off exhausts and Intercooler plumbing setups. Hopefully this opens up another avenue for the tuner community and makes plumbing a little easier

- Solid

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[DSMunknown]

Well guys after alot of perusing random hotrod sites and being diverted to spam up the yin-yang I found this.... http://www.drgas.com/store/home.php?cat=8 This may be really usefull as far as space constrictions (not just our cars specifically) when fabricating One-off exhausts and Intercooler plumbing setups. Hopefully this opens up another avenue for the tuner community and makes plumbing a little easier

- Solid

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Nice try, but this would be something I would vehemently be agaist. When aiming for ideal performance, you want the least number of bends and the least number of diameter changes when regarding intercooler piping and exhaust piping. I can't stress this enough. So while your effort was honest, the outcome is far from ideal. This link is a good one to refer to. Read up.

 

[SolidBoostTSi]

well, the point of this post was to give another way to fabrication. If I'm not mistaken aren't oval tubes better for ground clearance? and most of us here have lower than stock ried hieght? I know from experience I DO NOT LIKE BOTTOMING OUT and scraping a very expensive exhaust. Then again what do you have to lose? a single oval tube that is 20% larger can be used in place of a round tube. And the losses are marginal.

Take for example - 1G Short route FMIC piping
the two holes in the core support that you feed tubes into... you can use an oval tube that transitions into a round tube. I may not be an engineer but it only makes sense that if you can make things easier and do it in a way that the factory may have done it why not...

look at the SRT-4's LICP you will notice that it is OVAL for a reason... CLEARANCE.
look at Stock Cars ( NASCAR ), USLemans, USRRC, they utilize the fact that they can A 1/4 INCH off the gound at speeds of over 200mph with 500lbs of Downforce and they aren't severly bottoming out.

I REST MY CASE

Viscous skin friction is overrated...

 

[Steve93Talon]

Burns stainless makes oval piping as well, it's been discussed here before.