PVC Piping for intercooler?
 

Could i use PVC pipes for charge pipe or will they get to hot and melt?

thats kind of no help lol but anyways, im planning to run 8psi on a t3t4 and my rpm limit is 8200 so ill be shifting near thats alot of times thats why i was wondering if at 8000 rpm maybe the PVC would get really hot and melt..

you can get HPVC, witch is hi'temp pvc, but even that won't stand up to much serious thrashing. EVEN if it would withstand the heat, there is still the small amount of oil and other engine fluids that seem to find their way into charge piping that would compromise the structural integrity of the pipes.

bottom line ....
PVC is great to mock up IC pipes with if you want to have custom welded pipes made. Run it for a weekend if your brave and don't mind molten plastic in your engine. Anything more then test fitting is just asking for trouble.

*edit for typo*

You could you use it to help you fab the piping up, then do it in metal.

coat the pvc with high temp. spray paint lol

alright thanks, what ill do is probly use that black piping for a couple of weeks but only for the cold side, i found myself an intercooler from a cronos 626 to put on my civic. and ill probly use some metal from a muffler shop for the hot side. Thanks for all the info.

goddamn, do any of you search???
this has been covered 1654651621 times!
dont use PVC, ABS is your friend!
ive been useing it for about 2 years now, no problems.
my whole charge piping is made from it.
ABS is high temp resistet, and chemical resistent (oil)
its the way to go, if you want to go that route.

just use exhaust piping, im sure you could do your intercooler piping cheaper, then what u would with pvc, plus it will take the heat

except its heavy as ----, and not as user friendly

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That guy has been doing it for a long time like that. I wouldn't trust any plastic for intake piping unless it was post intercooler. You'd wanna do something about the PVC being slick, my PVC boost leak tester works its way off and hits me in the face sometimes. Dont' know if hairspray would be ok for that...

I prefer using junkyard intake hoses. It's a lot cheaper and easier to deal with than PVC even. Just don't use the molded ones, only the type that look like multi-layer radiator hoses, or hard pipes. Walked out with enough to go across the engine bay twice for $5

heavy? are you being serious? if you dont get a thick gauge pipe its not heavy, and you can buy mandrel bends, its not hard

i opted for rad hoses, i think there the best thing so far the bend easily and they are made to withstand heat. Thanks guys!

---- with the price of that xspower bullshit just do that mine was like 100 with a good intercooler have a couple friends running it and it actually fit haha

Yes, they are the best thing ever. Aluminum is for over-engineered cars that need to last and ----.

shut the ---- up and quit arguing.

Pvc can and has been used with great sucess.

So have nuclear power plants. One or two failures is a very low percentage over the grand scheme of things.

Quit being a little bitch, nuclear power plants are the ----.

No doubt. The Russians loved their's.

Thats why they broke. They can't engineer worth ----. Ever see the episode of top gear where they try to find the best made communist car? They all sucked so bad there wasn't a best.

Apparently Americans can't engineer worth ---- either, because Three Mile Island isn't the highlight of our nuclear days.

not if you wrap it.......plus thats what im using and its not heavy at all bro.....and mendrel bend...---- cant beat 50 bucks for a complet kit.......just paint it and wrap it and your set...what you think the othe ---- is lol...steel same ----.

was for this post. ^^

exhaust piping IS thick gauge= heavy. if made charge piping out of it before, and it was heavy as ----, like i said.
and i know what you mean by think gauge ----, but most sxhaust shops dont bother ------- with the thin ----, as it sucks for lasting use. so therefore not easily available.

all in all aluminum is the way to go, but i assumed the dude was going for the cheapest route, where as i put in my $.02 (from experience mind you). not from guessing, from doing both.

yea im going for the cheapest :P

Hpow cheap is it when you have to redo it once every couple months?

Yea well like i said im not going with PVC anymore id rather use rad hoses...

I just read the title and loled!

Better...But not by much...

i know but i mean i only will use it for a couple of month anyways :P ;)

hahaha

I used one for a short time... the rubber coupler hoses exploded, and the PVC got soft to the touch after a few runs, non intercooled.

I wouldnt do it again... but if you wanted to use a few ABS bends or something in a mostly steel / alum system, I would consider it.

there is only one way to find out...........i heard it used where i live........

pvc is like .15 cents a foot man, ---- it if you have to redo it every couple months.

A 2 3/4 in fence post is like $1 a foot at HD.
Get CREATIVE

just use aluminum

that is the best...

bump for using pvc pipes haha

do you ever have anything useful or informative to say your the last poster of most of the threads in this section and i still have not seen even one comment that has anything to do with forced induction or tech at all.

LOL I use it pre-turbo and it is ok, but for the IC piping, heck no!