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Charge Pipe Install - What a PITA
I had my charge pipe come apart at WOT, finally, at ~60K miles lol. I've been expecting it- just dragging my feet since it's 100+ F here in Texas. Failure was in the same location as everyone else (see first 2 images).
I bought the VSRF pipe and what a PAIN to install (see last 3 images)! Working by myself it took me a good 8ish hours of struggling spread over a day and a half. I could not get the upper pipe installed on the throttle body until I laid flat on my chest across the engine and pulled on the pipe. Getting to those silicon coupler clamps was also awful, overall I'd consider this design a solid 2/5 for ease of install. Are all the other mfg pipes this tough? I know most follow the same basic design, but yeesh.
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Never really had any issues with my CP from protuningfreaks - you can put a bit of oil on the O-rings to make it a lot easier to slide the CP onto the throttle body and onto the intercooler
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Never heard of that company until today and I have to say their CP looks pretty different to most out on the market. But I think it would be a lot easier with that large silicon portion- all the rest have very small silicon couplers.
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FTP. no issue.
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MAD went on with some cussing, but no more difficult than I expected. Without sounding too arrogant I'd like to call myself a somewhat seasoned shadetree mechanic. Its been a while but I remember doing alot of it from the bottom, including the clamps. There was a nice line-of-sight on the clamp bolts from the bottom.
I did have a problem with fitting the MAD charge pipe to MAD intercooler, but it was unrelated to general install difficulty and solved easily. I also installed the intercooler at the same time so I may have had more parts off the car than OP did, which probably made things easier. When you pack a turbo I6 into a car the size of a golf cart things just naturally become cramped and hard to work on. Its just BMW life.
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I personally don't have a very good opinion of VSRF...I can't help but view them as the "AEM" of the German world. Perhaps a more quality brand would require less fighting to install. That wrinkle coating is a dead giveaway
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Is AEM not considered a good brand in Germany? Its got a solid reputation here
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But the design was just bad IMO. I had the intercooler off, and airbox off to give me plenty of room.
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ER products for the win. This install is even harder on an Xdrive car.
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