My car is an 01 with stage 4 upgrade, I recently added waste gates, EVO-V flow air intake and new headers, the car is silly fast and the reduced turbo lag is great but a weak link surfaced today,one of my boast hoses blew out at wide open throttle, the hose seem to be fine but the cheesy connection does not seem strong enough to hold with all the additional mods, do silicone hose upgrades come with better/stronger connections? Can connections be made stronger and keep the existing hoses?

 

Replace it with an EVOMS hose. No more problems.

 

Does the EVOMS hose use a better connection? The hose seems ok, it's the connection that is the problem on my car.

 

Yes The connection is better!!!

 

Do you know how or have a picture, there doesn't seem to be anywhere to put a bolt type clamp.

 

Just took this shot from my hoses.

 

Thanks.................

 

Yeps the connectors are also better and you can literally hang from the hoses- they're that secured. Let me know if you need any...

 

Could I get away with just changing the left and right bottom ones? These seem to be the weakest link are there others as well?

 

They're sold as a kit... and you'd be suprised man.. the others do the same thing. Even into the y-pipe

 

I'm afraid to ask how much is this kit, please let me know either in this thread or by pm please, thanks.

 

http://www.sharkwerks.com/products.php?pid=9

Comes in red or black fellazzzz

 

GaryFL has the same mods as your Rave, including the waste gate springs. He also has the Evo hoses. He never had a hose pop off until he added the Evo hoses.

He has had two different people install them with the same results. Hoses popping off. Not sure if he got a bad silicone hose kit or what. I think he is planning on going back to stock hoses until they can get this figured out.

Now who wants to play monster rain?

 

I've done my mods incrementally to have a "baseline" comparison.

I still remember having new headers and exhaust when I was at Stage 2 and getting some EVO boost hose added on.

Definate postive difference. At least on my car, it seemed the stock hoses were "leaking boost".

 

That is very odd indeed Once they go in properly... (it does take some heaving to get them to go in first time), they stay in. You can hang like a monkey from them and they'll never come out. You can boost crazy levels on big HP kits and they still don't come out. The stock ones enjoy slipping out at anything around 1.1-1.2 bar. And above that.. forget it