View Full Version : Pics of intake path linkages to prevent catastrophic boost leaks


fusilier
11-11-2004, 06:25 AM
I'm assuming everyone bead rolls all their pipe. But still, you can't have enough protection from the intake tract blowing apart under high boost especially after vibration.

Audisport cars used a system of thrust linkages with quick removal drift pins held in by cotter pins. This pretty much eliminates any possibility of your hose clamps working loose and developing a seperation between your pipe sections. It also eliminates forces on your hose so that its not doing the job of holding the pipe together, just sealing.

Here is the U pipe I built for my car. It goes from the turbo exit to the intercooler. I've got tabs on it for linkages to the turbo and the intercooler. The hose clamps themselves aren't on in this picture so the linkages are easier to see.
<img src="http://www.bufkinengineering.com/100204progress01.JPG">
<img src="http://www.bufkinengineering.com/100104progress05.JPG">

Here's the linkages from U-pipe to intercooler. Notice this one is a flex wire type linkage with Clevis'd ends and the same drift pins.
<img src="http://www.bufkinengineering.com/100204progress02.JPG">

The intercooler exhaust end tank dumps directly into the throttle body. There is another Linkage there.
<img src="http://www.bufkinengineering.com/103204progress04.JPG">

James

selfproclaimedv8buff
11-11-2004, 06:34 AM

fusilier
11-11-2004, 08:13 AM
<center><img src="http://www.bufkinengineering.com/103204progress03.JPG"></center><p>But the idea is not to use the hose clamps at the means for structural strength. The clamps are there to seal the hose only. And yes, the metal pipe sections come within millimeters of each other.

selfproclaimedv8buff
11-11-2004, 03:44 PM

fusilier
11-11-2004, 05:25 PM
<ul><li><a href="http://www.burnsstainless.com/Hardware/Clamps/clamps.html">http://www.burnsstainless.com/Hardware/Clamps/clamps.html</a</li></ul>

B2119
11-14-2004, 12:27 PM