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Old Jul 13, 2008 | 05:44 AM
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Do I have to be picky due to pressure with attaching a soft line for the purge? Or will pretty much any tubing from the autoparts store work? Kind of doing something similar to the dynotune purge set up....
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Old Jul 13, 2008 | 08:01 AM
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soft purge is fine if you are cheap like me. get a small piece of pipe with the right threads for the purge on it. looks horrible but works 100%. function over fashion when you don't have $ to **** and burn.
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Make sure whatever you get is made to handle that much pressure.

DO NOT use rubber hose, vacuum line, etc.
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Old Jul 13, 2008 | 10:52 AM
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Make sure whatever you get is made to handle that much pressure.

DO NOT use rubber hose, vacuum line, etc.

Well thats my question...LOL...what specific type of hose/line do I need?
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Well thats my question...LOL...what specific type of hose/line do I need?
You can go to lowes and get the milky white colored tubing, just ask one of the salesmen what can withstand high pressure (1200+psi)

I think all that the auto parts stores would have that you can use is copper.
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Air brake hose will work too
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Old Jul 13, 2008 | 04:58 PM
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Couldnt find anything in my trips today. Salesman at Home depot said I need to find hydraulic hose....
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Couldnt find anything in my trips today. Salesman at Home depot said I need to find hydraulic hose....
Not for the purge you don't. The milky white, hard plastic line they sell will work. I think it's the same stuff you would use to hook up an icemaker on a fridge LOL

It may me nylon tubing.
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Originally Posted by BAKED
Not for the purge you don't. The milky white, hard plastic line they sell will work. I think it's the same stuff you would use to hook up an icemaker on a fridge LOL

It may me nylon tubing.
I looked at that stuff. its identical to the tubing in the dynotune purge kits, but its only rated to like 55-70psi...hmmmm
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Old Jul 13, 2008 | 06:11 PM
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I bet being an open end tube will releive alot of the pressure.
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Matt, I don't know if that Home Depot stuff will work but there is a hydraulic hose place called Cauliflower on Pulaski Highway in White Marsh that will have anything you ever need. Did I see you coming out of White Marsh mall around 5pm today? I was gonna call but didn't have my phone on me.
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The home depot stuff will be fine for a purge, I've used it many,many times with no problems. Hydraulic stuff is way overkill and cost alot more $$$
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Matt, I don't know if that Home Depot stuff will work but there is a hydraulic hose place called Cauliflower on Pulaski Highway in White Marsh that will have anything you ever need. Did I see you coming out of White Marsh mall around 5pm today? I was gonna call but didn't have my phone on me.
I guess it can't hurt to try the home depot stuff....its cheap enough.

yeah that was me...I didnt see you. Had to drop off a tux....
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you dont need anything rated 1200 psi. Its not like a main feed line that is under pressure. if the end of a purge line were sealed then yes you would need a material designed to handle that kind of psi. When it comes to purging its just an open line, so its not actually containing that kind of pressure. I would use something slightly rigid, we use flexible aluminum tubing in our kits.

http://www.harrisspeedworks.com/shop...cat=263&page=1
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Originally Posted by BAKED
Not for the purge you don't. The milky white, hard plastic line they sell will work. I think it's the same stuff you would use to hook up an icemaker on a fridge LOL

It may me nylon tubing.

Dynotune kits use 1/4" Poly line, which is available at any home/hardware store.
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If you want something a little better looking we introduced our purge systems a few years back with alluminum purge tubing. We flare the ends and put a B-nut and sleeve on it for rigid mounting. We sell this tubing seperatly.

It comes standard in 3ft however if you need it longer we can make it longer.
http://www.nitrousoutlet.com/catalog...roduct_id=2883

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Originally Posted by BAKED
You can go to lowes and get the milky white colored tubing, just ask one of the salesmen what can withstand high pressure (1200+psi)

I think all that the auto parts stores would have that you can use is copper.
This is the same stuff I used forever. I've bought it from Ace hardware, TSC, Home Depot. It's cheap too. Make sure you don't buy the silicone stuff from Autozone.
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I don't remember the exact size but I used a piece of hard brake line 6" long off the solenoid and then medium strength plastic air brake hose to the wiper cowel. The plastic line was about the diamater of a pen or pencil. This worked excellent and was great for the fast sneaky purge when sneekin on some one. The larger line dumps any air in a split second rather than the typical 3-5 second purge.
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I used brake line from autoparts store, rented a tube bender from autozone and bent it up to the cowl off my purge.
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