Someone please help!

Just got off of the phone with someone at Perrin (not Jeff) and they are telling me now that the inlet hose for the Red has been pushed back to April 15th.

I am not going to wait that long because I have everything I need now except this one part. Can anyone copy a perrin hose but just make the diameter bigger, I can give specs.

Please someone help.

Call SBR. They are supposed to be making the same kind of larger diameter hose and it is supposed to be released/available in a couple weeks....

Hope you find one. I would be very frustrated if I had to wait on a stupid hose!

Call SBR. They are supposed to be making the same kind of larger diameter hose and it is supposed to be released/available in a couple weeks....

Hope you find one. I would be very frustrated if I had to wait on a stupid hose!


Any info on them? I just checked google and there are quite a few "SBR".

Slowboy Racing.... HERE (http://www.slowboyracing.com/)

Bling, Can't you go to a fab shop and have them fab you a metal one up with silicone on each end for the turbo and intake mating sections?

That would work and look pretty trick.

jimmy rig your stock **** man. lots of duct tape and a box cutter would do the job right nice.

Find Darth Chicken, try on the pdxwrx yahoogroup. He fabbed his own inlet tube for a SlowBoy turbo. I'm guessing the larger inlet tube won't mess with maf readings, but ask your tuner :)

http://www.slowboyracing.com/shop.php?sid=&cat=932

This should work

That might work, but I think I asked blinguskhan in another thread and he said his comp inlet has a three inch diameter. If so, those silicone pieces are probably too small.

I called them a week ago about my turbo and they said they are making a turbo inlet hose which is three inches the entire length. This sounds exactly like what he is looking for, but I don't think it's available until around the beginning of March.....

EDIT: Nevermind, just saw their 2.5" to 3.2" translator. That looks like it would work, but he would need some thing solid to clamp them together without leaks - maybe a piece of 3.2" steel tube tapering to 2.5"???

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7955195296&category=38634

It's an easy custom fab job. Just some simple silicon couplers and some piping...tap it in two places for spigots.

Those reducers don't work - there's just not enough room under the intake manifold to make it all sit there properly. That was the direction I originally went, but trust me... you end up squishing everything down so far its not even worth it.

I used an AEM cold air intake pipe on mine. Whats needed is a 3" pipe, with an elbow at one end (to put your short ram intake on, or whatever you used). The connection between the turbo and the intake pipe takes some experimenting, as its not quite a straight short - I am still using my piece of rubber plummers pipe from my original install. Its a hack job, but the result is that I have a 3" intake all the way from the filter, and its VERY smooth. I did cut a hole in it to screw in a fitting for my crankcase vacuum, but other than that there are NO changes to the inside surface from filter to turbo.

Experiment with this. Go to the hardware store. Check your parts bins, use your imagination, and don't fear sewage piping :alien:

Here's some pics I just took, please excuse the hose clamps... :lol:

http://home.comcast.net/~darthchicken/entireturbosetup.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~darthchicken/turbotoinlet.JPG

I posted a thread about MAF tubes a few weeks back...do a search and check it out. Someone recommended a company that makes some nifty silicon hose connectors.