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4" intake pipe

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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	Oh no where near haha. I don't have enough opportunities to get to the track to be a good enough driver to get the most out of 500rwhp
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wozza	wozza posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 688, Visits: 5.4K	Hanaldo (29/03/2014) Oh no where near haha. I don't have enough opportunities to get to the track to be a good enough driver to get the most out of 500rwhp Ha Ha, absolutely. In my book anyone who can out drive a well set up car with +200 hp should be doing it as a career. Showing my age now Used to run a Sierra Cosworth with a turbo the size of a dustbin lid, damn thing was un drivable. Turbo would take the length of the straight to spin up, it would come on boost and then try and kill you at the next corner. Warren Carbon Copies Ltd
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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	Haha sounds awesome turbos have definitely come a long way. And with the ease of making power on ethanol, there's no way I will ever catch up to my cars ability
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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	What do you think of this as an option Warren? If I drilled a hole in the pipe, then stuck this through the hole and used the weld on lip to bond it in? http://speedflowdirect.com.au/itemdetailspage/20387 The only thing I don't like about it is it looks like by the time I have drilled a big enough hole to fit the threads through, I won't have much area left for the lip to bond onto?
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wozza	wozza posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 688, Visits: 5.4K	Hanaldo (29/03/2014) What do you think of this as an option Warren? If I drilled a hole in the pipe, then stuck this through the hole and used the weld on lip to bond it in? http://speedflowdirect.com.au/itemdetailspage/20387 The only thing I don't like about it is it looks like by the time I have drilled a big enough hole to fit the threads through, I won't have much area left for the lip to bond onto? I can see where your going. Could you not just bond it on the outside. That way you could drill a smaller hole. You could even take the adhesive over the lip for a stronger mechanical bond? Warren Carbon Copies Ltd
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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	I could but it would look awful.
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wozza	wozza posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 688, Visits: 5.4K	Hanaldo (29/03/2014) I could but it would look awful. If you cut a hole 2-3mm bigger than the OD of the lip in a piece of masking tape, place that over the fitting and apply the adhesive with an artists brush, when you remove the masking tape you get a nice neat line around the fitting. Warren Carbon Copies Ltd
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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	Would that not only work if I was bonding the fitting onto a flat surface?
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wozza	wozza posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 688, Visits: 5.4K	Hanaldo (29/03/2014) Would that not only work if I was bonding the fitting onto a flat surface? Sorry, not sure what you mean? Warren Carbon Copies Ltd
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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	Well given the surface of the fitting flange is flat, and the pipe is curved, will that not give me two sides where the adhesive will have to do more gap filling? And hence not work so well with the masking tape? What if I bonded the fitting in from the inside using the epoxy adhesive as I was planning, and then put 2 carbon strips over the back of it to give it some more surface area and support, and vac bag it. As it's not threaded on its bore, I would then be able to drill out the hole from the carbon? If that makes sense?
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