Intercooler Boots

[kzimmer]

On 8/10/2017 at 5:08 AM, 903Dodge said:

Does anyone have experience with https://www.siliconeintakes.com/?

 

 

This place is great for building intakes, but I had trouble with a couple of their silicone boots blowing to smithereens under pressure.They didn't like 40+ psi. To be fair, I used a silicone elbow and straight aluminum pieces instead of aluminum elbows and straight silicone couplers. My bad.

[Mopar1973Man]

On 8/19/2017 at 2:29 PM, 903Dodge said:

My intercooler boots showed up today!!

 

Took very little effort to get the 3.5" on my intercooler. Maybe the 100 degree weather here in Texas helped. 

 

Thanks guys for for the input and help. 

 

 

There is a little trick I learned. Orange Degreaser from Home Depot will make silicone boots really slick. Once they dry it glued in place. I really got to fight to get them off. I've done this on a few Ford diesels with issues and never blown back off.

[Dieselfuture]

Anyone used gates or BD from geanos? I'm looking at changing mine, rockauto also has gates. About  $250 for all of them. Mine if pressurized to 25psl has tiny bobbles coming right through ruber if i use soap water. Not sure what they do at 40psi. 

[jlbayes]

These are what I use with standard tbolt clamps. Those spring tension ones are pos.

 

https://www.hpsperformanceproducts.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=aramid

[Dieselfuture]

@903Dodge how do you like them so far, how much boost are you making. I looked at gates, then the ones you got (obviously wold like to go this route because of price ) and the ones @jlbayes provided link for which are not at 45 degree bend or at least I didn't see any, but price wise close to gates. The ones on vulcans site didn't look too impressive for the price. So now I'm scratching my head. 

[jlongjohn]

I just put two lower boots on from Silicone Intakes. Ordered the 3.5" x 3" - 45 degree and they went on snug but I used a 90 degree pick to follow it around the horn and then it pushed on with some side to side movement. Time will tell how they hold up.  

[jlbayes]

16 hours ago, Dieselfuture said:

@903Dodge how do you like them so far, how much boost are you making. I looked at gates, then the ones you got (obviously wold like to go this route because of price ) and the ones @jlbayes provided link for which are not at 45 degree bend or at least I didn't see any, but price wise close to gates. The ones on vulcans site didn't look too impressive for the price. So now I'm scratching my head. 

 

They are there. Just gotta hunt through all their stuff.