Per Gary's great research on intake temps from the other day, along with some info from Skip, I could use a material other than metal for brtween the I/C and intake plentum? I am in the process of installing a starion I/C in the 89 wag and am having some enginering problems with plumbing. Could I use a flexible coolant hose for the cooled air between the I/C and T.B.? Or some thing else of equal ease?

 

Ideas?

 

Danny.

I used black plastic plumbing to get my instalation set up roughly. then went to steel and stainless. you really want to keep the flex points rather short. coolant hose will not do well. rember you will be dealing with vacume, pressure, heat, and oil. get prebent tubeing and silicone couplers.it helps to acess to a welder too.

About 80% of my IC plumbing is stock Starion/Conquest plumbing( other 20% is stock RX7 plumbing)

 

Black plastic and rubber coolant lines will be Ok for a temporary setup.. Using them is a great cheap way to get IC going.. but after its all fitted and plumbed, it would be best to go with silicon and steel.

I'm planing in using aluminum tube just to take advantage of a little more heat transfer, at least for the longer turbo-to-IC pipe (assuming the typical top mount location). Standard neoprene rubber is good to about 300 deg, but if your going to run high boost the silicone is a good plan.

Gary