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Old 02-14-2005, 10:13 PM
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Buying couplers and elbows

Where does everyone shop for turbo plumbing? I see some couplers and elbow on Ebay for what seems like cheap... but are they cheap quality? Curious where everyone else shops for couplers, elbows and piping.
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Re: Buying couplers and elbows

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Where does everyone shop for turbo plumbing? I see some couplers and elbow on Ebay for what seems like cheap... but are they cheap quality? Curious where everyone else shops for couplers, elbows and piping.
I used to buy stuff from vortech but they want too much for the plumbing.

Last time I bought some couplers from turbonetix.

Napa sells silicoln couplers by the foot.

Otherwise, i'd like to know as well.

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What are your plans? There's some stuff here:

http://shop.airflowonline.com/Mercha...tore_Code=AFSI

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Try your local diesel shops.
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I used Hose techniques for the silicone tubing...they offer tons of different colors and configuratons ...Plus they are about 1/3 of the price of turbonetics sleeving..and you cant really tell the difference...


For tubing I used 2 places...for mild steel I just used the local diesel shop...they sell 4" mandrel bends..etc..

For stainless tubing I used burns stainless for the OVAL stainless exhaust tubing and Stainless works for custom mandrel bent tubing..FWIW I would have used stainless works for everything BUT their mandrel bender only does UP TO 3.5" diameter..
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Youngs performance sells aluminum tubing and elbows. Turbohoses.com has everthing you can think of for couplers.
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Try www.vecco.net . good quality, they also sell on ebay for less than on the site.............
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I did my entire twin turbo setup w/ HTS. In fact, I'm a dealer for them now. The 4-ply aramid is some of the best stuff you can use.
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I bought a lot of the IC setup parts for the Talon from Road Race Engineering. They're a DSM vendor but they have a wide variety of intake/exhaust pieces at reasonable prices.

I used the nitrile/SBR rubber 3-ply hose for the couplings, I just got a few feet of it and cut to fit. It's about half as expensive as the silicone couplings, and so far it's held up for a year and to continuous 24 psi passes.

Unless I can find somewhere cheaper they are who I'm ordering all my aluminum pipes and couplings from for the Camaro's IC setup.

http://www.roadraceengineering.com/h...eekerparts.htm
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Go to a truck shop, they usually have some NICE Clamps, and tons of elbows...yet the pricing is pretty insane..
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