Silicone intake pipe connectors

[darkhorizon]

Anyone have a favorite vendor for these? I tried a few of the google results, and Siliconeintakes.com, all seemed to want to charge me north of $80 for 2 connectors.

If home depot can sell rubber ones for less than $3 each, I would think I could get silicones for much less than that.

BTW siliconeintakes.com wants to charge me $29 to ship 2 of them.

Sizes I am looking for....

3.5inch to 2.5inch reducer, preferred to be a 90 degree reducer.

2.5 90 degree elbow, any radius.

 

[Aphix]

In my opinion a silicone coupler is a silicone coupler no matter where u buy it. Its like name brand clothes, they're going to be twice as expensive for the same thing with the name on it. You're not going to see a performance gain from buying the same thing for more. Both are made to connect piping and retain air.

 

[chris9149]

You could always get on ebay, or try to find something used... Otherwise you are pretty much out of luck, all the ones I have seen are pretty pricey.
If you do end up finding something really cheap please do post about it on here, cause I would want to know.

 

[97boostedTSI]

alot of venders sell multiple different sizes of silicone couplers. extremepsi.com does dejon tool does... just a thought. i dont know price wise but you may find something good there. Also ATI Procharger in kansas city, kansas sells it by the foot at 10 dollars a foot....so you could call them and see if they could hook it up

 

[darkhorizon]

I agree that a connector is a connector.. . I could care less about having a fancy brand on there, because heck I dont even know what a "good" connector is compared to a "bad" one, and I have seen alot of turbo setups.

I will give these ATI folks a jingle... I would really like to go with these siliconeintakes.com guys, but their shipping is just murder. (I shipped a 38# supercharger for $14 last week)

 

[4g63Powered]

I got a few from DSMotorsports a couple years ago, but they've since gone MIA.

Other than that, I get all my toys from either ExtremePSI or JNZ.

 

[daren_p]

I would disagree, a silicone couple isn't a silicone coupler, their not all created equal. Now on the intake side of the turbo, it probably doesn't make much difference but on the pressurized side, it defently makes a difference & its not uncommon to blow out a lower quality silicone coupler when running a descent amount of boost.


I have bought most of my silicone couplers & vacuum from Hightempsilicone Site Closed & can say their quality is top notch

Edit: I just checked their online store & its currently not active so

 

[darkhorizon]

I dont plan on running more than 15psi of boost on this, maybe upwards of 18 if I get fancy. Basically if you guys with stock DSM's can hold a cheap silicone, I will be fine and making 500whp.

 

[chris9149]

Just my 2 cents, but if you want to make 500WHP you should be buying quality parts. Just bite the bullet and spend some money on a nice silicone connector from whatever vendor you choose (as they are all close in price from what I have seen) and when you never have to worry about it again, your money is well spent.

 

[1stGenTSi]

Siliconeintakes.com is the best place to buy couplers they are the cheapest and the couplers are excellent quality. That shipping is not right, if it says that give them a call. I ordered a 2.5 90* elbow and a 4'' - 3'' reducer last week for 37.97 shipped. 7.99 for shipping and it came in 2 days. Don't buy crappy "sport jdm" couplers off ebay.

 

[lasthope05]

Get a quality 3/4 ply silicone coupler not the ebay ones that are single ply and weak. You want to have something that can hold good boost pressures. I have personally see a bunch of ebay couplers blow apart from running 15 psi.

 

[DRAGIN]

Really a coupling is "Not" a coupling. Some are not high pressure. The ghetto ones provided with a non turbo intake will blow out under pressure. You need a high pressure unit. They have some type of threaded material in the core as a reinforcement and a harder durometer silicone. As for the rubber ones they're junk. You get oil on them and they swell and blow up, split etc... I've had good luck with turbonetics. Mach V has them for cheap. Step hoses and hump hoses are big steam. I have some spares kickin around my toolbox I'd sell for cheap. Let me know if you need any and what sizes.

 

[darkhorizon]

NICE mach V has them dirt cheap!

Going to make up my order right now!

 

[tristanmb81]

i purchase my items from siliconeintakes.com but make sure that you order all of the things that you need at one time. hehehe!!!

 

[darkhorizon]

i purchase my items from siliconeintakes.com but make sure that you order all of the things that you need at one time. hehehe!!!

The shipping on their junk knocked me out of my chair!

I am going to get some much cheaper mach v ones, and go from there with the welder. Its not so hard to reduce and expand charge tube plus or minus .5 inches, so I will make a bunch of nice bends up and do a 1 piece charge pipe. Welding > clamps.

 

[darkhorizon]

Turns out I ran into a glitch with the frozenboost.com / siliconeintakes.com couplers, the shipping was reasonable, ended up getting all I needed for around $50.

Problem is, apparently fedex lost the package 3 weeks ago, and they just now started a claims process that takes up to a month.

If you guys order from here, I guess I wouldnt ship fedex.