Home made 3" ID intake.

[->PrOjEcTGS<-]

So... Why are you unemployed? Can't you find work doing custom fiberglass stereo installations and other fiberglass fabrication? You gots mad skills for using no body filler on that pipe.

 

[xsboost]

So... Why are you unemployed? Can't you find work doing custom fiberglass stereo installations and other fiberglass fabrication? You gots mad skills for using no body filler on that pipe.

It's just that nobody's hiring right now around here. Unemployment rate is continuously rising. I actually just got hired at MasTec installing satellite dishes. I start on the 12th.

 

[dannyd97gst]

Could reinforce the clamping points with a metal ring to prevent the fiberglass from cracking if over tightened.

 

[dannyd97gst]

xsboost, wow you're in New Bern, my brother just moved back here from New Bern b/c of getting laid off. He worked at a machine shop.

 

[xsboost]

Looks great, but I'd have to see one that was in use for quite a while before I'd trust my compressor wheel to a fiberglass intake.

I like to tighten clamps pretty tight- I'd be afraid of cracking or splitting the fiberglass and giving my turbo a supply of fiberglass shards through the intake at high boost levels.

I was trying to respond to this about an hour ago but I lost connection. Thanks for bringing that up. I always like positive criticism. I understand tightening IC pipe hose clamps that tight but on just the pre turbo intake it's not completely necessary to tighten them that much. Plus the glass is pretty thick. We made the exhausts on yachts out of this stuff where I used to work and had to pressure test the system at 60 psi for 12 hours. If the hose clamps that were tightened to hold 40 psi didn't crack the glass I don't think there will be a problem with a system that see's no boost and the clamps don't have to be so tight.. I did however think about this a while back and decided to incorporate a metal crush ring on the new one where the clamps will be just to be safe, just as dannyd97gst suggested.

Could reinforce the clamping points with a metal ring to prevent the fiberglass from cracking if over tightened.