why pay $100 odd bucks for a stainless lower radiator pipe??

when you can get one made up at mettlams for $25!

MaTTz and I went there yesterday with my crappy old rubber hose, left it over night and bing... today we have our new pipes!

spent about five mins sanding it this arvo after work and it's already coming up a treat... a little bit more elbow grease and she'll be all blinged up ready to go...

 

Or you can get an aluminium one from e-bay for peanuts.

 

arent they supposed to be barbed at the ends?

 

why polish it:wacko:you can't see it

 

dont polish it dude....

trust me, once its in, you wont see it unless the car is on the hoist, the bottom engine cover is off and someone is looking up at your engine from below.

Cheers

 

i polish everything even my passengers

postage from the ones on ebay are a bit too... oh and it has little welds at the end... just can't see them in the pic.

is everyone on the forums tonight got their rags or something? :LOL:

 

yeah i know its not visible, but it makes the time pass quicker...

i have little to do while im waiting for my tranny

 

Re: yeah i know its not visible, but it makes the time pass quicker...

if you have nothing to do, you can help me fit my dumps and take out my tailshaft

haha

 

no worries mate!

 

Re: no worries mate!

damn.. you really do have nothing to do

come round tommorrow night then.. haha

i like to have someone here for motivation and to do those fiddly little crap jobs like the top nuts of the dump pipes

nah.. might aswell wait until ive sourced another center bearing

 

Re: yeah i know its not visible, but it makes the time pass quicker...

Err, should a comment be made here? :LOL:

 

:LOL: crazy people!

 

What about the ends?

On a decent pipe both ends will have a lip that the hose goes over, and can then be clamped down behind the lip to prevent any chance of it sliding off.

 

in answer to your comment...

 

This looks like a good idea. What outside diameter stainless steel pipe did

you use and what rubber hoses did you then use to connect to the radiator (one and three eighths inches outside diameter) and the aluminium engine inlet pipe (one and five eighths outside diameter)?

 

Have you fitted this up yet? INterested to know how it goes.

Reason being I'd want one, but don't want to pay $100+ bucks for a damn length of pipe - $25 is far more reasonable.

I just thought there might be some issue with fitment because the rubber one would bend, and therefore wouldn't neccessarily have to be 90 deg.

If you can keep us updated on fitment, I'd say a group buy would be in order, if you'd be inclined to organise.

I could prolly survive without it being polished though

 

providing your stock lower hose is not completely stuffed you should be

able to cut the ends off it and use them for the ends on the metal pipe

 

Yep, then all you'd need is a couple spare clamps and you're set.

Mebbe it'd be cool to get some silicone connectors, I dunno.

 

You copy cat! Na smart boy, I did this 12 months ago.

:thumbsup:

 

Sorry Kurt but I think using old hose sections could be dangerous so my

original question still remains - what NEW rubber pipe sections could be used?