Are these all OEM dealer parts? Need to get one here. Hopefully it's not too hard to change it out.

 

If I remember, Devek had a hard hose kit that was to be better than stock hoses for roughly same price. Otherwise, try Pelican. No affiliation...

Steve

 

Gert has the orange tip hoses.....I just ordered a set and thus will have an extra set of the original oem (all black) hoses....you can pm me if your interested in a used set....Marc

 

Think Fabspeed do a set too:

www.fabspeed.com

 

Acropora,

The archives have a lot of information on this issue.

I tend to go overkill when it comes to these things. I would suggest a hard pipe kit, more expensive but could be cheaper in the long run. There are for sure many Rennlist sponsors that can get them for you. I know Devek is one as mentioned above, also you can get breeze clamps from Viperbob.

Good luck.

 

Devek had the reinforced hoses. Will ask Bob for the clamps as 25 would be just a few too many.
Maybe Marc's hoses with the Breeze's will work. Thanks

 

Hi guys. The problem with hard pipes (metal?) is heat soaking. The pipes wind up warming up to their local surrounding temperatures, whereas the rubber ones do so much less. Metal exhibits much heat conduction/transfer while rubber tends to be insulating. Food for thought.

Jaime

 

Jaime,

You bring up a good point. There is a simple solution to this issue...

Two things I can recommend is:

1) Get the pipes Jet Hot coated (this will turn them black in colour so they blend in more with the engine compartment)

2) Buy a thermal blanket. Thermotec makes an adhesive-backed thermal blanket that you can wrap around the pipes. $55 buys you a 12"x24" section.

I use the Thermotec products on a number of cars and it works great. I wrapped my air boxes and plastic intake tubes on my 03 E55 and it made a world of difference on intake temp.

Just my $0.02...

Victor

 

Sunset Imports will do the pair of orange factory hoses for ~ $250