Welcome to the club

 

im glade i bought my zzp, everyone should replace the stocker, i dont like the idea of haveing plastic anything on my intake system

 

The cold and/or any rubbing of the condensation bar on curbs or anything really, snow, your ex-girlfriend that you ran over last week... Any moving of the IC like that will cause stress on the end tanks.

 

one thing I think we tend to overlook sometimes, whether we think about it or not.. is the weather... if its really cold out, all that plastic tends to tighten up.. connection ends, piping, etc, even if you let the car "warm up" the difference in temperature can sometimes have an effect when things are expanding fast... so you "may" have had some thermal breakdown, being as you are from Maryland, and its been pretty darn cold, under higher boost it could have caused a failure if there was a pre-existing weakness in the internal structures of the piping, metal to plastic components or whatever... just another consideration but one I think sometimes is overlooked as a possibility. Just my two cents...

 

ZZP IC vs POS IC



installed ZZP charge pipe

 

Any pieces of plastic get in the intake system?

That ZZP charge pipe is a nice solid piece, not sure why people over look it when buying a charge pipe?

Did you buy couplers or take apart the stockers?

 

Nothing in the intake. Used the stock couplers and yes it is... Looks good and fits good , I likethat it's plain looking

 

very nice .... i had just got replacing mine sunday night when i blew it saturday night ughh such a pain in the butt replacing....

 

Yup, it was a process... On my test drive after putting it backtogether... I saw a crashed up white as turbo... Put a damper on the night

 

That is a big ass hole in that end tank... Guinness book of records big damn... At least nothing got sucked into the rest of the intake path.

 

Not THAT big. It's eerily similar to my blowout however:

 

Holy crap that does look exactly the same. I even have the se crack across the front

 

That's why I went when I saw yours. We had the same blowout basically.

 

what were you doing when it blew? like driving normal or aggressively? mine blew shifting to 3rd

 

Mine blew on a 3rd gear pull. A BOOM followed by a couple backfires, low oil pressure light and a flat bed later and I was home. Car would start and then die. The shitty thing is; I was a mile and a half from home. Go figure.

 

wow thats crazy, my car ran fine, (minus the 50 hp it had) and i drove it home pretty far, i was scared too but it wasnt showing any signs of worsening problems

 

I wonder if there is an outstanding or inherent weakness in this design then perhaps if this location seems to be the "weak point" for blow outs... hmmm makes for a good case to upgrade right away, especially if you live in colder climates.. or for those who just can't keep their foots off the gas in the cold!

 

That point is the highest pressure point in the IC design. Looks like a combo between the pressure and cold weather tightening up the plastic. That is what I'd expect to see torture testing an IC. Kinda like dumping boiling water on a frozen glass, the contrasting temperatures put serious stress on plastic, combined with the psi, kaboom. You can get the same effect with metal end tanks along the welds.