^^^I agree. Ive seen no less than 3 already and none of them were at the drag strip or racetrack. If you keep your car stock and rarely drive it aggressively, maybe I can see the argument....but it was the first thing I wanted(considering the intake was not ready yet).

 

yup im getting the intercooler and pipes first and the dp and ehaust somewhere down the line

 

I have 12.7k miles on my car running from summer to winter (95F to -8F today) and mine hasn't broke. It seems like the % of failures is still in the single digits and happens early in the cars life.

 

also seems true

 

I wonder if installing big rubber washers on either side of the charge pipe mounting hole would help allow a little flex where it's secured by a bolt?

 

Hoping not to burst anybodys bubble and not wanting to step on aftermarketeers toes, aftermarket parts break too. There's one thread here talking about an aftermarket, all aluminum, IC bursting at the welded seam. Granted. The affected party has been told by the manufacturer they will make it good. But **** DOES happen. OEM or aftermarket.

 

also true.....AAAAHAHHHHHH stop making good points on both sides! LOL My money STILL rests with the aftermarket community.

 

I will take it to the dealer, get a rental for the day and have it fixed for free and spend my $350 US and go on a week long trip to cuba or something.

I am all for modding your car but it sort of has to make a difference for me to spend the money. Like I wanted a pipe with a bov for the sound but it would cost me like $700 US and all for what, to hear a pshhhh sound.

 

Pay me the $700 and I'll sit shotgun and make that sound every time you shift :P

 

hahahaha rofl priceless

I'm personally gunna just get the hot side charge piping and the intake together, when i can afford the cold side I'll grab it up and get it done. Really tho, it's the hot side that is the problem.

 

lol ok sure but I drive about 2 hours a day in stop and go traffic, you will be dead before the first trip I swear and I say $700 and that would be Canadian with the piping, bov, shipping and converting into Canadian.

 

So somewhere around 8 yen?

 

pfffff USA and Canadian currency are not THAT bad, tho damn it's much lower than i realized, used to be so close to the USA currency, oh well

700.00 USD=874.442 CAD

 

350 piping
50 shipping (guess)
210 BOV
50 shipping
50 custom fee's
= 710

Then convert

$881.67 then taxes

Alot of money for something just to go pshhhhhh

 

dood, i'll just say it now, we can goto a custom exhaust shop in Canada, just gotta find the right one, and they'll do GOOD charge piping for you completely custom for much less and no shipping lol. I'm currently in search of a shop locally to me for this cause USD to CND conversions are **** right now, i dont even wanna order an intake anymore at this rate

 

same thing happened to me but they fixed it for free

 

What kind of a shop do you have to go to? I was thinking about that last night also but people are lazy so it could turn out to be crap.

 

an exhaust shop usually is the best place to go

 

hmmm well you need to shop aroun if you think it cost that much. intercooler piping- $370 with BOV flange welded on. with shipping $400 plus $180 for BOV SHIPPED. That's less than $600. And you can get it cheaper than that if you get charge piping at a shop.

 

Less then 600 but then customs, currency conversion and people love to rape Canadians on shipping.

I got a set of 4 rims from the US and was charged $30 US for it and the actual price to ship was like $31 with USPS for all 4 rims. If I buy an intake off of any of the vendors here, they think it will cost $50 and they will only use ups which rapes Canadians for half the value of the item in brokerage fee's.

I can go to a custom ship but do they use the same material ex an exhaust or wouldn't they use something else? How big does the diameter have to be?

 

its under warrenty

 

i do believe the stock stuff is somewhere between 2.0inches to 2.5inches, don't go smaller than stock and don't go more than 1/4inch larger than stock.

yea dood remember were in Canada, that changes everything even tho it shouldn't mean a damn fukin thing......pay an extra $200 for currency conversion and boarder/duty fees? *** NO!!!

 

the cobalt stuff is very shitty, the stuff on the CSRT4 is like PVC pipe, its thick as hell!!!.

 

ok for those of you that have intercooler piping. DO you have to remove the bumper to install the piping or can it be done without removing the bumper?

 

bah, u dun need to remove the entire bumper, i can't see that being required at all.