Worth buying air tubes for 2000 mac install?
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Worth buying air tubes for 2000 mac install? I am going to be installing a set of Mac headers on my 2000 TA. The air tubes on the 2000 do not fit the mac headers.
I have read somewhere that one guy bent the old tubes to make it fit.
I already purchased the correct EGR tube, but I would hae to spend ~$100 on air tubes if I can get away with bending the current ones. Are the tubes easy to bend? Any special tools needed? Any thoughts.
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I have read somewhere that one guy bent the old tubes to make it fit.
I already purchased the correct EGR tube, but I would hae to spend ~$100 on air tubes if I can get away with bending the current ones. Are the tubes easy to bend? Any special tools needed? Any thoughts.
Thanks.
Tommy <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
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Re: Worth buying air tubes for 2000 mac install? yea, they're easy. Just put them in a vice and bend. I'd just take them off though. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
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Re: Worth buying air tubes for 2000 mac install? </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by black00WS6:
<strong> yea, they're easy. Just put them in a vice and bend. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">i'm going to be doing this in the next week, i'll post on how easy/hard it was.
<strong> yea, they're easy. Just put them in a vice and bend. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">i'm going to be doing this in the next week, i'll post on how easy/hard it was.
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Re: Worth buying air tubes for 2000 mac install? Hey:
..just a thought ....You may want to try heating the pipe with a propane blow tourch before you bend it. ...this works for bending a copper tube plumping ...so it should work here...
..just a thought ....You may want to try heating the pipe with a propane blow tourch before you bend it. ...this works for bending a copper tube plumping ...so it should work here...
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Re: Worth buying air tubes for 2000 mac install? I ordered the correct EGR tube, I just have to worry about the air tubes.
Silly question:
Am I going to simply "twist" the tube 90 degrees?
or
Should I "bend" a 90 degree elbow into it?
I hope that question makes sense!
I am asking becuase I wonder if "twisting" it to fit may snap the tube.
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Silly question:
Am I going to simply "twist" the tube 90 degrees?
or
Should I "bend" a 90 degree elbow into it?
I hope that question makes sense!
I am asking becuase I wonder if "twisting" it to fit may snap the tube.
Thanks!
Tommy <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
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Re: Worth buying air tubes for 2000 mac install? for anyone else wonderring about bending AIR tubes, i just did it and it's easy. slap those rascals in a vice, 90 degrees of turn and that's thats. i think that they kind of twist and bend at the same time.
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Re: Worth buying air tubes for 2000 mac install? Since we have had a break in the cold weather, I assume those MACs are fully installed....
WOW - It must be intimidating with headers, no cats and a loud mouth....
WOW - It must be intimidating with headers, no cats and a loud mouth....
Re: Worth buying air tubes for 2000 mac install? You can also bend the EGR tube to fit, its corrogated(sp) stainless and it bends pretty easy. I bent mine for MACs and bent it back for the stock manifolds when I took them off on my 2k Z28 - no problem at all <img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_cheers.gif" />
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Re: Worth buying air tubes for 2000 mac install? BREAK IN THE COLD WEATHER?!!? Maybe I should move to your side of Hartsdale <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />
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