Just curious. I just built my pipes and was wondering how many other people have in their intercooling system? I've got 5. But I think I can get it down to 4 by welding one peice. But I think then I couldn't get that pipe off later easily.

Are you including the one for the throttle body elbow or the one coming off the turbo?

All of them after the compressor housing. Or if you want to think of it this way, Anything under pressure. What I'm trying to get at is if you eliminate a coupler you effectively eliminate a place for it to possibly pop off!

Then I have seven due to the gm maf. If I didn't have the gm maf, I would have six.

if i told you how many i had you'd poop on yourself. but I'm bout to have it welded up so yeah....

nytescion said:

if i told you how many i had you'd poop on yourself. but I'm bout to have it welded up so yeah....

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just how many do you have?

->PrOjEcTGS<- said:

All of them after the compressor housing. Or if you want to think of it this way, Anything under pressure. What I'm trying to get at is if you eliminate a coupler you effectively eliminate a place for it to possibly pop off!

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GENIUS GENIUS GENIUS!!!!!!

casperfast said:

GENIUS GENIUS GENIUS!!!!!!

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Thank You??

I`ve 7 and one stock piece of intercoolerpipe

would be lot less if I wouldn`t keep the A/C.

btw. only hose popping of is the little stock one

I have 9 I haven't had any pop off since I flared the end of the pipes. holds 30lbs great. And I'm using crappy clamps too.

I have all stock piping, put into the end tanks with TWO couplers (bl) , but It's working for now.
-shane

Simply, just 4 couplers.
One piece LICP and one piece UICP. The shortest way possible!!!

who the hell uses 10 couplers?

bastarddsm said:

who the hell uses 10 couplers?

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I was using 10 at one point.......

bastarddsm said:

who the hell uses 10 couplers?

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Obviously two people who have voted on this poll!!

4- (1) Compressor cover (2) hot side IC (3) cold side IC (4) LICP to UICP all with pipe beads...

Six, using the GM MAS.
Four, without it.


If you have ten couplers, then you have a poorly designed piping set-up. (no offense to anyone, btw)

TurboTsiThatFly said:

just how many do you have?

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I only have 8...not as much as a few people here but still too many. I'll be buying a rear exit IC here shortly which should dramatically cut the count down.

Should just have zero couplers. Wiggins clamp everything! BALLIN'

andy4g63 said:

Simply, just 4 couplers.
One piece LICP and one piece UICP. The shortest way possible!!!

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Same here.

turbo to licp, licp to fmic, fmic to uicp, uicp to tb eblow.

total = 4.

turbo to intercooler #1 and intercooler to throttlebody #2. total of 2
And I have a total of 4" of intercoler pipe not including the 2g tb elbow. and the 4" is the compressor outlet, (e316g)

I actually will be using 0 but not wiggins(which by the way cost like 300 a piece) I found a company that makes v band clamps that are made for IC piping at a good price. I"m gonna have 3" flanges welded to my IC(haven't decided between fmic or Water to air) and then have the pipes welded together. Only hard part is welding one onto the TB because I wanted to use a Q45

How is that going to work with engine mounts? then need some give.

Supa Dexta said:

How is that going to work with engine mounts? then need some give.

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These style clamps have a little give but the key is solid engine mounts all the way around