I bought a hose clamp pliers like in the picture you uploaded £8.00 well worth itThe draper ones are excellent but if you want something cheaper I'm sure these would do
http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=120941960403
Result mate getting the camcoat one for that price.
Perfectly normal to have a little oil residue there,
Go out and enjoy it now
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Thats the oil on the turbo wasnt much tbh saying hose had never been taken off in its life
I know I'm a real paranoid about this,and I know a number of people use a cold air feed from the bumper area,but I would alwqays be a bit concerned about driving through the unexpected water hole in winter time,and scoping a load of water up through the hose.
The original Forge CAI I had was even worse for that risk,as the filter was right down in the bumper,waiting for the next big puddle.
Anyhow,I can't do this now,as Steve @ AMD put my charcoal canister down there.
What will happen if water goes on the filter ?
Surely only eay that will happen is if you go through a 3ft deep puddle otherwise its pretty impossible
It wouldn't need to be that deep but I agree it's very unlikely....it just appealed to my feelings of paranoia.
What of there was water on the filter ? Im guessing a tiny bit will go on no matter what you do also a enginehead will keep the filter relitively dry during all weather
The real worry with the old Forge was that it could inhale a lot of water,and feed it straight to the engine via the turbo.
I don't think that would really be a possibility with your setup or mine.
Yeah seem unlikely to happen with this intake could happen to yours with the massive turbo sucking in all the air beast of a car yours is lol, nah but on a real note doubt a little extra cold intake could cause so much water to be sucked up
Sounds on point mate bout right what you said,my cold air feed is about 15cm from the actual filter so doubt it will get soaked but if we get floods ill bang the standard intake back on,I'm running the similar setup too, and i also had forge v1 intake.. You're safe from hydrolock. The difference is that with forge you had the entire pipework from turbo to the filter behind the fog light in one piece causing it to suck air from arround the filter hence the high probability of hydrolock although more than a half of filter should be in water and you should be wot at the time. Never happened to me but it happened to my friend. With this setup you got the pipework and filter in the line with headlights and the cold air feed isn't attached to it so it doesn't suck air. It actually only directs air to the filter, so there isn' suction under pressure. Also if you ever get in the puddle deep enough it won't go that high and if it gets there is a gap between the air feed and filter which would couse water to spill arround and not to go into the filter. At least that's my view on it..
My stage 2+ has done the last 1000 miles on standard air box without problem. (Revo kit back on now)Sounds on point mate bout right what you said,my cold air feed is about 15cm from the actual filter so doubt it will get soaked but if we get floods ill bang the standard intake back on,
Buta wuaestion i have is if i have it tuned stage 2+ and then need to put the standard airbox on will it be ok to drive ? Or will it be bad for the car ?
I've got a P-Flo, it works fine for Stage 1 and Neuspeed could never be considered cheap crap...Why do you try and do everything on the cheap?
There's a reason the more expensive brands are more expensive.
Look around and see what everyone else has, everyone can't be wrong..