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      12-30-2012, 09:07 AM   #43
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Originally Posted by drbvac View Post
Flex 3 layer silicone - Where did you find that creature - I am glad you warned me about the hose wearing on the metal - all you want is to suck something into the supercharger that shouldn't be there - like a piece of the wire inside the hose - the unit itself retails for over $2300 and I am sure would be an expensive fix. Can you take a picture when you are finished of the new hose ? Too bad they couldn't have expanded the moulded intake to allow and in-line or flow thru flat filter like the one the stock unit uses - All it would need is a thin box with inlet and outlet fitted into the stock intake ?
got it from a specialist motorsport factor over here..... the price is painful tho!!!

100 bucks a metre!!!!!!!! but hopefully.... wont need to do this again, also this hose has the wire between the different layers of silicone.. its the real deal, can withstand 300 deg C and also even better its a special matt silver than reflects heat, completely overkill but like you said, when its feeding a 2k+ blower...... can be too careful..... After ive done all this im going to remove the s/c and take it to be powder coated crackle black!!

also can i give you another tip, and another lesson i learned the hard way.... on your last pic you can see the black PS tank, see that one leg on the bracket??? remove the bracket and chop this off with an angle grinder or the like, this will allow you a) to be able to get to the s/C dipstick really easy without having to bend the fuck out of the PS tank lines, and more importantly it allows more adjust BACK once fastened, it WILL repeat WILL rub on the underside of the hood during really aggressive drivin with the way your forced to place it with that "leg" in place.... cut it off and you can twist the tank towards the oil filter housing and it will clear the hood better, it also looks nicer :-)

As you have it now on full bore starts it touches the hood and rubs off of the paint which is imo not acceptable....

^^^^

like i say, over the years ive pretty much perfected all the "tweaks" that need doing.

Really enjoying this thread BTW......

would you consider meth??
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