Hey guys on going to be getting some charge pipes. What is the best way to install them and about how long does it take to do it?

 

lower charge can install without taking off front bumper but is a pain maybe 30 mins if its your first time. I would do that one first then the upper is easy not even 5mins.

 

How do you do it without taking the bumper off?

 

get under your car pretty much, my car was on jack stands when i did, if you still hav all the plastic you may have to drop your bumper, my plasics are chewd to sh*t, if thats the case u can add a hr or so if by urself.

 

hoist for the lower is the easiest but the upper is simple.. should really only take 10 minutes

 

Lol.. no offense, but I can without question guarantee that it will take far longer than a total of 35 minutes start to finish to swap both the cold side and hot side pipes especially if this is his first time. I love how everything on here in a 10-35 minute job according to everyone!

Op, it's not a difficult job but realistically plan on somewhere between 1.5-2 hours start to finish for both sets of pipes. Possibly even longer depending on your mechanical abilities,tools you have available and potential issues you may run into.

 

^^ exactly

 

Um because it is a half hour job when uv done it as often a some of us. I can do the lower on about 15 minutes and the upper in the same. It's the lower one that's the pita, but once u know how to do it it's fast

But just for safe measure I'd give it about an hour taking ur time

 

You're officially my hero then. Show me a video of you removing and installing the lower pipe in 15 minutes start to finish and I will give you a great big cookie.

Oh, did you miss the part of the op never doing this before btw?

 

Top pipe isnt very long. i would say about 20 minutes max when you realize you have to run back to the garage to grab your tork bit. the bottom is a pita like posted above. i have the turbo XS one and it did not fit properly with the GMS1. the sensor sits the opposite way and didnt fit properly so i ended up going back to stock.

 

thats why i said add a hr or two..

 

This is his first time. Did you miss that part?

 

I have turboXS with the 3 bar sensor and the plug and play kit. You're right it's a tight fit, but fit it does.

 

5 min CHECK that 2 mins. CHECK THAT an HOUR

 

One of my wires was actually rubbing the fan shroud, I have the plug and play as well. I wasn't very happy about it and I emailed them and they said it looked fine.. Pretty sure I could see that it wasn't fine. When I switched back one wire was actually exposed

 

I wouldn't call it fine as the thing really should be located better but at least mine isn't rubbing through. They don't seem to take suggestions well at all. I won't be buying anything else from them.

 

u said especially of its first time, implying that even if its not it will still take u that long. and yes i have figured out a trick to doing it, and no i wont go make a video just to prove me right lol

im not commenting on the op, im commenting on the guy who says it takes hour and a half.

 

Anyones charge pipe break through the toqrue bit? mine did and blew off... awhile ago.. its like the palstic tab threaded out and slipped right over the torque bit.. now everyonce in a great while my charge pipe blows off.. yippiee