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Home made 3" ID intake.

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xsboost

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Apr 21, 2008
New Bern, North_Carolina
So I used to have a 16g GT setup from Turbochargers.com and I had an ebay intake on it. I got rid of my 16g and got a frank5 20G. Well the intake I had didn't fit the 3" inlet on my turbo. I was going to get a FP 4" intake but I got laid off a while back and have no $$. I have lots of fiberglass and resin left over from when I used to work at a fiberglass yacht plant so my gears started turning. Here's the product of my unemployment, need for a new intake and experience in fiberglass. You can see a couple of resin runs inside the tubing but I've since smoothed it out. Also, I used absolutely no bondo or any other type of filler on this. Just 3oz hairmatt, chopped matt, and resin.
 

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Thanks. I actually painted it to match my VC but I decided to go with a graphite eagle because it has more of a metallic look.
 

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that eagle makes it look 10000x cleaner.! you got skills!

I actually tried printing an Eagle logo out on contact paper to use for a stencil but when I cut it out and tried to transfer it onto the intake the curvature of the intake distorted the logo and it didn't look right. I ended up covering it with masking tape, free handing a talon logo on the tape, and carefully cutting it out. It was a PITA.
 
I primed it with black for a deeper red then sprayed it with 3 coats of duplecolor cherry red metallic, then 3 coats of Metal cast red which is basically candy red, then 3 coats of duplicolor wheel clear coat. It held up pretty good on my old VC for a few years so I figured it would work ok for an intake. The only difference between my old VC and new VC and intake is that I did a silver base instead of cherry red.
 
Very impressive! You could market that really easily to be honest ;)

I'd love to but I procrastinate too much. It took me a month to do this one when it should have only taken me 2 or 3 days simply because I didn't feel like messing with it sometimes. Before I made it I was going to just cut my intake pipe in the middle where it's about 3" and use a coupler to put a piece of 3" aluminum tubing on it. I figured since fiberglass doesn't heat soak as bad as metal I might as well try it. It may keep my intake temps down. In theory it sounds good anyway. The cool thing is if I did build them to sell, since it's fiberglass, I can customize them in almost any way people want. All I would need is something like a stock intake as a reference to get the basic dimensions right then modify it from there.
 
I used my ebay piece with a 3" tube on the outlet end as a mold, rubbed it down with some good ol petroleum jelly, glassed over it, cut it off and classed the tube back together . . . basically. I'm about to start on one for a 1g but all I have to go on is the stock intake for basic dimensions. I'm probably going to make a foam mold for this one. I also have an EVOII intake. I might just do one based on that for s##ts and giggles.
 
That is a really good idea using petroleum jelly and the ebay one for a mold. I may have to do this. I never ever thought about using fiberglass for an intake. But it seems lke a really good idea.:hellyeah:
 
I'd be nice if I could use fiberglass to make my IC pipes. They'd probably pop like a balloon under boost.
 
Finally finished the mold for a 4" 1g intake.
 

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You sir got some Fiberglass skills. I would so buy the 4" for a 2g with an extension for CAI by the stock side mount. Say how much and we could get the ball rolling. No kid.

-Richard
 
Damn man you has some skills with the fiberglass. That 2G intake is bad a$$ I would buy one. What did you do with you old Ijen one for the 16G.

It was actually an ebay intake but I hacked it to make the mold for the 3" pictured.
 
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.
 
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