Whos Engine Bay Is This?
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From: Burlington, Ma
Originally posted by Aaron_001
Does anyone have an e-mail where I can contact him?
Does anyone have an e-mail where I can contact him?
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Rob G doesn't actually make the tube...Mike Phillips (BaBolt) made the original 'proPIPEs' and I think that Doug at Billet Flow may have made one or two. The MAF is actually hidden on the bottom of the tube where it can't be seen. It uses the electronics out of the L for the MAF but the tube itself is about 95-96mm if I remember correctly. I think you may be out of luck hunting one of these down...Mike only sold a few of them and most of those were the pieces to make it (I've got one sitting out in my garage waiting to be welded 
) and I don't know if Doug is actively making them. There was one for sale in the classifieds a while back and I thing it was going for somewhere around $500...not bad for a nearly 'one-off' piece that not everyone and their brother is going to have when they pop the hood.
I'll post a pic or two if I can hunt them down.
) and I don't know if Doug is actively making them. There was one for sale in the classifieds a while back and I thing it was going for somewhere around $500...not bad for a nearly 'one-off' piece that not everyone and their brother is going to have when they pop the hood.I'll post a pic or two if I can hunt them down.
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There's a lot more to it than just bending pipe on a mandrel. You'll need the machined fittings for the IAT, MAF and the three vacuum lines that run into the original rubber boot. Additionally, you'll need to make the oval/oblong piece that goes from the throttle body to the round pipe. On mine it's a two piece 'clamshell' type gig that gets welded to the pipe. There's a pretty good reason why you don't see many of these and that is the fact that all of the machined parts and specially formed pieces take a fair amount of time and effort to make.
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Originally posted by Struck in AZ
There's a lot more to it than just bending pipe on a mandrel. You'll need the machined fittings for the IAT, MAF and the three vacuum lines that run into the original rubber boot. Additionally, you'll need to make the oval/oblong piece that goes from the throttle body to the round pipe. On mine it's a two piece 'clamshell' type gig that gets welded to the pipe. There's a pretty good reason why you don't see many of these and that is the fact that all of the machined parts and specially formed pieces take a fair amount of time and effort to make.
There's a lot more to it than just bending pipe on a mandrel. You'll need the machined fittings for the IAT, MAF and the three vacuum lines that run into the original rubber boot. Additionally, you'll need to make the oval/oblong piece that goes from the throttle body to the round pipe. On mine it's a two piece 'clamshell' type gig that gets welded to the pipe. There's a pretty good reason why you don't see many of these and that is the fact that all of the machined parts and specially formed pieces take a fair amount of time and effort to make.