Who else uses these??
Do you ever have problems with them leaking or blowing off under high boost. I always found they clamp down nice and hard, which is great but they tend to pinch the silicone hose under the slider when their tightened right up, which is fine if all you use is 1 bar but anything over that then the seal between the silicone and pipe needs to be a better one.
Yesterday, using various bits in the garage along with the help of my compressor and a tire gauge I made something I could pressurise the whole induction system with.
Using this I found I could pressurise the system upto about 1 bar, anything over that then near all the clamps would leak to a degree, some only slightly but nevertheless they did definitely leak. I pissed around for ages trying to make them seal, managed to get them up 1.4 bar but after that they would still slightly leak.
In the end I worked out that on 2.5" (63mm) intercooler pipework the silicone pipework had a outside OD of just over 3" (76.2mm), so I cut some sections of 3" stainless pipe which were just over the width of a Mikalor clamp, cleaned all the rough edges and then cut a slit across it so it became a solid compressible collar that would fit around the outside of the silicone and give the Mikalor clamp something hard to clamp down onto and because it was a perfect round fit it couldn't pinch the silicone pipe.
This worked a treat, so all clamps were treated to a collar and can now take 2.5 bar without leaking.
No more leaks
Thats my tip for the weekend ;-)
Do you ever have problems with them leaking or blowing off under high boost. I always found they clamp down nice and hard, which is great but they tend to pinch the silicone hose under the slider when their tightened right up, which is fine if all you use is 1 bar but anything over that then the seal between the silicone and pipe needs to be a better one.
Yesterday, using various bits in the garage along with the help of my compressor and a tire gauge I made something I could pressurise the whole induction system with.
Using this I found I could pressurise the system upto about 1 bar, anything over that then near all the clamps would leak to a degree, some only slightly but nevertheless they did definitely leak. I pissed around for ages trying to make them seal, managed to get them up 1.4 bar but after that they would still slightly leak.
In the end I worked out that on 2.5" (63mm) intercooler pipework the silicone pipework had a outside OD of just over 3" (76.2mm), so I cut some sections of 3" stainless pipe which were just over the width of a Mikalor clamp, cleaned all the rough edges and then cut a slit across it so it became a solid compressible collar that would fit around the outside of the silicone and give the Mikalor clamp something hard to clamp down onto and because it was a perfect round fit it couldn't pinch the silicone pipe.
This worked a treat, so all clamps were treated to a collar and can now take 2.5 bar without leaking.
No more leaks
Thats my tip for the weekend ;-)
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