FMIC Piping costs

[Onefast99gsx]

Thanks. I appreciate it. It's a Griffin I/C. It's very efficient. My 99 GSX came with a 2-178 intercooler and i called Mike at RRE to ask him which he thought was better of the two and he told me to actually sell the Spearco. My brother is an awesome TIG welder. I cut the piping to how i wanted it and he welded it. I think i had roughly $600 into the whole thing and that included everything, i/c, piping, clamps, couplers, etc.

[tpunx99GSX]

Where did you get your piping from? Did you weld it yourself?

[Onefast99gsx]

At the time i got the bends from RRE. They're like $12-15 each. I used all 90degree bends. The nice shiny straight piece on top is some stainliess we had laying around. I just polished it. My brother welded some small beads around the tips of the pipes to help keep the hose flying off at high boost. My brother did all the welding. He works for my dad in which he owns a machine shop.

[JET]

I think i might have about $80 into it and that's including clamps, hose couplers, etc.


http://mis15437.tripod.com/griffin_20x10.htm
I am willing to bet there is a lot more than $80 into it. You said you used 20 clamps, if they are all T-bolts you have over $60 just in clamps. Add $60 for the bends, $20 for couplers and you are around $150 if you have a buddy weld them up for free. Those are low figures too and assume you hook it up to your existing IC piping like RRE does.

[Onefast99gsx]

Clamps are just the cheap radiator clamps. They were like 80 cents a piece. Coupling was like $12 per foot. I know i didn't have much more than a foot into it, maybe 14" total if that. The mandrel bends were around $12-13 a piece. The straight pipe on top would probably be around $20 or so. It was scrap, i just polished it up. Ok, so maybe i had a little bit over a hundred into it. Point is, it was cheap. If you have access to a saw, TIG welder, go for it.