after five months of construction i started(jumpstart;dead battery) up the old miata. it made boost , however my temporary, diy over the top charge pipe blew apart . I expected this part to hold up longer than five minutes. in another week or so i'll get the proper part and truly be done with it. other than that everything seems to function nicely. after i road test it i'll post some pics.

 

Nice! What was it made of?

 

if he says PVC ban him.

 

very thin aluminum,

 

Foil? I've never seen aluminum pipes break under boost. Where would you get aluminum pipe that thin?

 

soda/beer cans taped together?

 

I made a canon that way once after seeing it on TV.
it didn't work

 

scrap plus duraweld(propane torch welding crap that doesn't bond)

 

I think someone used duraweld to weld pipefittings to their ghetto-cooler.

 

here

 

That's just.....odd but congrats on the boost. How'd it feeel?

 

holy flow restriction batman!


you think it would have been easier to just go down around the raditor and then back up into the IC inlet?

 

So what is that stuff realy man. Did the box say reynolds on the side

 

or tilt the rad back
or use a smaller dia. hot side pipe

 

The aluminum soldering rods that you use with a propane torch aren't all they're cracked up to be. (pun intended) I used the "Muggy-Weld" brand product to attach my BOV and idle bypass hoses to my original aluminum up-pipe. Neither was under stress, they just had hoses hanging off them. After a week the BOV flange fell off. I re-ground the pipe and re-attached it, and a few days later the idle bypass flange fell off.

At that point I tossed the stuff in the trash, built a new up-pipe from a piece of mandrel-bent 16ga exhaust tube, and MIG welded some new fittings onto it. Eight months and still holding strong.

 

works better than it looks. flows better than 1.75" pipe, but not as good as 2"

 

Bro try cutting that section of the hood.. that should give you about a good 2 inches of clearance.

 

Preach it Duck man

 

also what I mean by cutting is the inside metal of the hood.. not the actual hood. I'm going to be doing this in about a week so I'll post pics if you're interested.

 

Go get 'em tiger!