fair price???!?

shue · Post by **shue** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:50 pm

i wanted the fat piping for the air filter from uas and been quoted 200. lemme quote their email "to supply this you will need our large hose clamp and nylon adapter and silicon short hose to match up for crank case breather and freight and all $200"
is that a fair price for a fat rubber pipe, few clamps and a filter adapter, i want to make my own airbox, put in my filter and cai kit. toughts please

BuCkEt · Post by **BuCkEt** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:58 pm

Sounds fine to me champ, and I should know 'cos there is one under my bonnet.

If I had a photo of my engine bay here at work I'd circle the bits you're gonna get in that email.

Post by **Bennoz** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:00 pm

Yep - sounds normal to me. That pipe aint one you can walk into Bunnings & gets. Its specially moulded pipe.

shue · Post by **shue** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:02 pm

i sent them a pic too of what i wanted

shue · Post by **shue** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:05 pm

hmm tossing up now. uas pipe 200$ + filter 100$ or d_stroy_r arc chamber 350$ hate choices

Post by **Bennoz** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:07 pm

Yep thats the one. Note, its not just bent in the right places, its also flared on the fliter end to 75mm - as oposed to 65mm on the TB end.

BuCkEt · Post by **BuCkEt** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:07 pm

Actually Ben, here's a question;

When you bore out the TB do you need to change your intake piping to fit around the new TB inlet? Or does the inlet size stay the same but the part just after increase insize?

Always wondered this.

Post by **Bennoz** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:09 pm

Nah, when you bore out the TB, you increase the inside diametre. Outside diametre doesn't change

shue · Post by **shue** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:22 pm

how does it compare to a arc chamber, i suppose they both do the same function. let more air flow to the mani yea? the uas one does look a whole lot less restrictive though compared to the arc set up.

Post by **Bennoz** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:25 pm

Hard to say... you'd really need to get both setups on the same car & have it dynoed.

That UAS one was pretty extensively tested (dyno-ed) by Steve & UAS.

Having said that, Grants (MrFT000) car went pretty hard with that ARC setup from what I hear...

shue · Post by **shue** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:52 pm

considering i cant use the whole uas set up here anyway (unifilter is an oil filer, being illegal and all in melb)all i can do i get his piping and make the rest. wont i get the same results if i just got piping from like an exaust place and make an airbox around it, plug in the filter of my choice + cai piping etc

Post by **Bennoz** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:58 pm

Yep, if you wip up some piping in the same sort of fashion, you could achieve exactly the same thing. Sure there may be half a kilowatt difference here and there between filter types, but thats effectively negligable. As long as you open up that pipe & get all the air in you can - you'll be fine. I know that Kev knows a bloke in VIC that 'does truck exhausts'.... they could wip you up some piping

shue · Post by **shue** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 5:04 pm

yea would be cheaper than 200$ too i suppose. should just do it with my extractors. im so tempted to just get them fitted but im gonna wait till i get the whole exaust done . im holding it off coz i know its gonna set me back a bit of $$ to get it done