what did you guys use to cut the piping?

dont tell me a hacksaw, lol, thatll take 15 years

thinking ill tya circular saw with a metal cutting blade...

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Pipe cutter (looks like a monkey wrench)

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you can use a sawz-all with metal cutting blades or the circular saw idea. Whatever it takes "gitter dun!"


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pipe cutter, forgot about those (duh)

I just found out Lowe's does pipe cutting, gonna see how much they charge a cut and see how much a pipe cutter cost...do which ever costs the least, hehe

how well do the pipe cutters work when you have to cut on a bend tho, like with the "u" sections?

starting figuring everything out, and i think ive got the lower IC piping figured out, and still have room for the filter and upper IC...gonna get that done then start the upper

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heh coo, I used a electric hacksaw. Cuts through that pipe like butter.

If you wanna check out pix of my starion intercooler install there here:
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Who sez FF can't drift?

hey bro the easiest way to do it and get the proper straight angle is a chop saw. Its super easy and every single muffler shop out there has one. later mike


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toyota turbo (big)
high 12's low 13's 1/4

stage BIG custom mj racing turbo set up, built block.worked head,all tial components, hks evcez,spearco 992,oh yeah and a huge bottle in the trunk last run all turbo 13.8@108 no nos dyno'd at AEBS in Cali with 300+ hp to the wheels

ended up using a hacksaw afterall, lol

finished cutting the piping today. just need to weld on the bov flange and paint the piping (either aluminum color like i used ot have the valve cover before i polished it, or glass black kinda like the hahn piping, any opinions?)

for the people w/ the hahn stage 1 wanting to add their own fmic's, heres what i used:

1st off, i had the end tanks of the spearco modded so the inlet and outlet are on the driver side


for the turbo-to-fmic, used the first 90* bend from the hahn turbo-tb pipe, then another 90 to bring the piping down, into a 45* bend, and then into a U-bend to the fmic. u have to cut them to fit obivuosly, but those are the bends need.

for the fmic-to-t/b i used the first section of pipe from the hahn stage 1 pipe, then a 90* to bring the pipe down, into a 45 and then into a U. actually didnt have to cut anything from the 90 and 45 on this side.

used couplers made from the rubber coolant hosing from RRE

oh and had to do some trimming of the body kit front fascia :/

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How are you going to bead the ends? To keep the hoses from popping off?

Personally I'd go black

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well, im hoping i dont have too. i was blowing off hoses all day today, then i used a scoket wrench (instead of the screwdriver style) and two hi-torque clamps per side (instead of 1)on the couplers that were coming off, and have been fine since.

if i do have to end up beading the ends, ill either do the ghetto epoxy trick, or take em to a welder to weld a bead.

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RRE has a good tutorial on how to bead piping. Beading piping is a good idea hehe if it's a tight fit. Popped my piping during an autox like 3 times not fun. You can weld beads on like I had a fabrication shop do to my intercooler or you use tape and epoxy to make beads, did that to a couple of my pipes and it worx great!

nice intercooler dude, that beats the hell out of my starion ic, I bet your piping is hella higher quality than my junkyard crap hehe

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thanks, spearco owns me

my piping is just the mandrel bends from JC Whitney painted black with engine enamel.

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