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Good evening all.
Picking up my 406 inlet fannymold over the weekend, as I'm fitting a FMIC to go with my new turbo.
Simple question really, as I do not know yet which route I'm going to take from the compressor to the 'cooler (I may go round the battery side), is it possible/sensible to use 'flexible' silicon hoses? All the FMIC installs I've seen use rigid ally pipes and silicon joiners.
Ideally I would want to get a few lengths of straight aluminium as it looks like sex in the engine bay, and a couple of metres of flexible hosing.
Yay/nay?
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I'm certain such flexi hoses exist but for anything half decent quality your looking at quite a bit of money.
I've looked through eBay a few times before and its almost always cheaper just to use silicone and alu pipe.
If you do find anything affordable be sure to let me know!
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I've got a 45 degree silicone pipe from the elbow look at my project
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The flexible stuff is good but in sizes 2" and above there really isn't alot of flexible, in them. You might get 2 bends out of a,meter hose if your lucky. You wont get loads of tight zig zags. I know this cos I spoke to the people who make the stuff at a show and tried it myself
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As Dum Dum said,trying to "flex" a length of SILICON stuff is impossible really without kinks etc, and just looks messy tbh...
Only one ive seen that was tidy, was a guy jeth who FMIC'ed a BX using big 2.5" hydrolic hose, steel braided, that was super oem tidy...
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haha yeh I remember that hydraulic hose jobbie, that was epic
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