Upgrading From KO3s to KO4 - (Doing It Now, Just Fitted Front Mount)

[Ashmond]

Just seen this and am thinking are pipes showing such a bad thing?

[bobbarley]

Just seen this and am thinking are pipes showing such a bad thing?

Yes

[GUY_GTI]

the pipes on mine are exposed but only because they we're too big to get behind the grills, im going to get a taller but thinner cooler and set it back slightly

[Ridg]

Just seen this and am thinking are pipes showing such a bad thing?

all well and good until a small child gets sucked into the grill and breaks your intercooler.

personally I'd be worried about damage to the pipes / intercooler from stones and crap on the road.

[GUY_GTI]

Just seen this and am thinking are pipes showing such a bad thing?

all well and good until a small child gets sucked into the grill and breaks your intercooler.

personally I'd be worried about damage to the pipes / intercooler from stones and crap on the road.

ive not had trouble with debris damaging my pipework but they have suffered a bit of corrosion from them being out in the elements

[Ashmond]

thats what I think im going to have to do, I have got a load of bends anyway so its not a problem just take off bumper, jubilee clips and then replace with a new one, I am intending to keep them polished anyway like my bay

[AlanD]

Speaking of polish (sorry to hijack) Ash you at Brands next week I take it? (silly question I know). I need to have a little chat about clay baring / detailing of cars.

[Ashmond]

next month or next week?

Yeah I should be there, talk to my mate sammy with the silver mk4 G2LFS, he is the cleaning bloke!

By the way everybody if people want inlet manifolds polished or any bits let me know we starting up a little business, we can either take yours and do it or give you a polished one, you give us your one and some dough, let us know

[AlanD]

Yeah I meant next week lol, topman, I shall have words, cheers. (Mk5 is foooooked with swirls )

[Ashmond]

Right, last night all my joins and piping turned up and we fitted it all and made sure it fit, unfortunatly they forgot one straight reducer for the intercooler (left side) so couldnt actually try it out. My battery died whilst we were doing it so only got one snap of when we fitted it all at first. Since then we cut the pipes shorter with a grinder so they are really compact and so they hardly take up any space. I am not going to have the pipes on show as we put the bumper on yesterday and I didnt really like the look as much as I thought I would. We had to cut my bumper so the intercooler fitted and then it got dark so couldnt do anymore. Need to put the jubilees on all the piping, do the electrics from where I replaced the fans, etc and then start her up and then see what problems I've got. I also put the magnex decat on yesterday and will get this taken into account when the map is done. With my cold air feed polished pipe and the rest of the bay polished I think its going to look really good!

Il get more snaps tonight when I go back to try and finish it or at least get closer to driving it again!