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Title: Custom Piping, Anyone know a good place/person
Post by: Dragun on June 05, 2012, 11:46:22 AM
As above guys

I\'ve got a T78, and where the intercooler piping runs into the turbo it hits the bonnet which allows it to shut....just, but it\'s not safe without bonnet pins.

Wondering if anyone could direct me to someone who could make me a custom pipe?? I\'m based in herts/London area.

Thanks.
Title: Custom Piping, Anyone know a good place/person
Post by: Big Al on June 05, 2012, 11:33:09 PM
Hi Dragun
Not the cheapest but certainly one of the best custom pipe benders I am recommending through experience are:
Pipecraft, down here at Lancing, West Sussex.
Pipecraft.co.uk I think ?
 
Al.
Title: Custom Piping, Anyone know a good place/person
Post by: Dragun on June 06, 2012, 08:45:32 AM
Hi big al, thanks for the reply I shall check then out, not worried about price, want a good job done :) thanks bud.
Title: Custom Piping, Anyone know a good place/person
Post by: shaunwil on June 06, 2012, 11:30:56 AM
I know when I did mine I bought alloy bends and straight and then made the parts myself. Then I just looked in yell for a local alloy welder to weld the bits up afterwards. For all the measurements you can take it is near impossible job to do without the car to hand.

Shaun
Title: Custom Piping, Anyone know a good place/person
Post by: Dragun on June 06, 2012, 12:23:00 PM
Ah ok, I was hoping to take the car down there and physically show them and let them take measurements. If you saw the pipe I\'m talking about its such a bad design, will
Post s pic, like 4 different pieces of pipe welded together :S don\'t know the logic behind it :S
Title: Custom Piping, Anyone know a good place/person
Post by: shaunwil on June 06, 2012, 12:32:03 PM
Be interesting to see what it looks like !
Title: Custom Piping, Anyone know a good place/person
Post by: Dragun on June 17, 2012, 07:10:07 PM
Hey guys sorry for delay

(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a43/_Dragun_/IMG_0622.jpg)

as you can see this pipe is slightly above the closing line for the bonnet. As soon as i have time i will try get a custom one done. Is there anyone else running a t78 with FMIC that i can have a peek at?
Title: Custom Piping, Anyone know a good place/person
Post by: shaunwil on June 17, 2012, 07:18:32 PM
You can get 90 bends in the Samco hose with different size ends, then put a angled samco joiner between the two to remove the pipe.

http://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/SAMCO-HOSE-&-KITS-90-Degree-Reducing-Elbow/c16_396/index.html?page=3

http://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/SAMCO-HOSE-&-KITS-Samco-45-Degree-Elbow/c16_324/index.html

Shaun
Title: Custom Piping, Anyone know a good place/person
Post by: shaunwil on June 17, 2012, 07:19:54 PM
You might even get away with just a 135deg one !

Shaun
Title: Custom Piping, Anyone know a good place/person
Post by: Grant Monkhouse on June 17, 2012, 07:33:37 PM
That\'s what I was thinking. Been trying to post through my laptop but there something wrong with my access.

Rotate your turbo housing a little and get a silicone bend off eBay and mod the other pipe going down to the IC. Much easier and cheaper
Title: Custom Piping, Anyone know a good place/person
Post by: Dragun on June 17, 2012, 07:34:25 PM
Thanks Shawn will have a look at those links, sounds like a more practical fix :) thanks a bunch!!
Title: Custom Piping, Anyone know a good place/person
Post by: Dragun on June 17, 2012, 07:34:55 PM
cheers grant :) hopefully sort this the weekend.
Title: Custom Piping, Anyone know a good place/person
Post by: Grant Monkhouse on June 17, 2012, 07:42:35 PM
eBay boom

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.co.uk/viewitem?itemId=290578451752&index=3&nav=SEARCH&nid=81896162597
Title: Custom Piping, Anyone know a good place/person
Post by: Grant Monkhouse on June 17, 2012, 07:43:46 PM
Those guys on eBay are sound too. Had some ally bends off them. Going there 2moro to get some other stuff. Only ten mins drive from me.