Re: RE: Homebrew Intakes

From: Marty Galyean (mgalyean@acm.org)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 23:12:54 EST


Actually that wasn't opinion. It was based on the experience of a friend of
mine. The melting shards in the cylinders seized his engine.

Use ABS pipe. Its about the same price anyway, so why not?

Curt Coulter wrote:
>
> 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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