Carbon Fiber Intercooler Piping
06-14-2004, 07:04 AM
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Re:Carbon Fiber Intercooler Piping
soooo....is streetracin gonna reply to his thread or, is he just gonna say ---- it and relize that he came to the wrong place to sell his CF piping? I think it would be pretty decent, just cost to dam much.
06-14-2004, 03:04 PM
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Re:Carbon Fiber Intercooler Piping
Originally Posted by Whitey
This is one of those products you hear about but will never be produced. There's way too many variables to make a universal CF pipe kit for custom turbo kits.
Reasons for c/f... well pretty much bling factor and heat savings. Carbon fiber tubing is stronger then aluminum or stainless, it does not conduct heat nearly as much as the above mentioned metals, and you got to admit, would look really nice under the hood at car shows. The cooler air inside the piping is less dense, allowing it to travel faster through the piping compared to more dense air caused by traveling through stainless. True for quick jaunts to the grocery store, there is no savings for carbon fiber over stainless, but for continuous pulls on the street and track, the piping will remain cooler then current piping. C/F is extremely durable, and done properly its stronger then metal piping with 1/3rd-1/4th the weight (not that its a huge issue with that much weight to begin with).
So if interested great let me know, if not ok be on your way.
06-14-2004, 04:54 PM
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Re:Carbon Fiber Intercooler Piping
Originally Posted by StreetRacin101
At what point did I say this kit was going to be universal?
Why would you advertise this product that is only good for out of the box turbo kits on a website based on building custom kits? This site consists of 99.99% custom turbo kits and I assumed you knew this before you posted so the logical conclusion would be that this was going to be universal.
Originally Posted by StreetRacin101
It will be basic layout, not designed for any particular system that exists currently, but rather to run from the throttle body to the chasis hole, and from the turbo inlet to the filter. Simple design to keep the cost down.
This sounds like a description of a universal product.
06-14-2004, 04:58 PM
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Re:Carbon Fiber Intercooler Piping
i thought air became more dense the cooler it got? Ithought that dense air made more power than less dense air... and I thought that it was the urbos JOB to propel this air at high speeds? am I wrong?
06-14-2004, 05:23 PM
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Re:Carbon Fiber Intercooler Piping
streetracin101--if you cant tell, no one on this site can really afford nor would they want your product.(mods, this is constructive criticism) yeah carbon fiber is great and you make great points about your product. it doesnt conduct heat, its strong, blah blah blah... it would be very nice if anyone could afford it. if someone had $3-400 to spend im sure they wouldn't spend it on carbon fiber charge pipes. You will probably get the 4 or 5 customers you are asking for, and maybe that is your goal, but why dont you come up with something cheap and useable. this subject has come up many times before, people like you come on the site and have this great product to sell but forget this is homemadeturbo.com we obviously make our own ---- and use whatever works.
bottom line, make something cheap and useable. the idea of a steering column gauge pod has come up many of times. come up with a climate control delete, and insert a peice of carbon fiber for a boost gauge or whatever. on my way home i was thinkin about this, in a 92-95 civic there is the center 2 vents next to the clock, cut those out and make a gauge pod. --come up with something cheap and useable.
bottom line, make something cheap and useable. the idea of a steering column gauge pod has come up many of times. come up with a climate control delete, and insert a peice of carbon fiber for a boost gauge or whatever. on my way home i was thinkin about this, in a 92-95 civic there is the center 2 vents next to the clock, cut those out and make a gauge pod. --come up with something cheap and useable.
