RE: Homebrew Intakes

From: Curt Coulter (curt@cjnetworking.com)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 16:43:19 EST


That was one person's opinion based on the point that PVC could crack and
splinter in an accident and send PVC bits into the engine. There are plenty
of people here running PVC tubes with no worries.

/Curt
> I have a friend who built a homebrew intake out of pvc plastic pipe (the
> white stuff) and though its not my color of choice, it adds horsepower.. I
> have been told to stay away from pvc... and to stick with abs, becasue pvc
> heats up and does something to the engine... or something...
> Should I advise
> him to swap in some abs, or possibly alunimum tubing of some sort?



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