trinity pipe... ouch

[beason]

or you could do that lol but think my way would hold better zip tie may slip.. oh well try it and tell us how it does..

 

[Diver6127]

Well, I have a pipe that needs to be "Undented" so I'll take pics of how I do it as well so others can get the visual they need.

 

[rossb]

or you could do that lol but think my way would hold better zip tie may slip..

I cannot use your method in the stinger area. I cannot wrap around the pipe in that area because that is where the dent is and I need that area to pop back out. I have to straddle one strap around the top of the plug in the stinger and wrap another around the strap ends that will sit on the stinger.

I will probably wrap lengthwise as you described around the rubber plug in the header hole.

 

[Mallanaga]

duct tape... lol. thats all i needed. dent is gone (for the most part) and I'm happy with the performance still. kudos, gentlemen... and gals? GL to anyone else with this problem. seems easy enough to fix though.

 

[rossb]

I did it twice last night and the stinger and pressure corks stayed put. The header cork popped out very slightly even though I ran a cork holding zip tie lengthwise around the entire pipe and I backed it up with a second tie around the pipe neck near the header opening holding the first tie very securely. The cork kind of bent itself around the wraps a little bit. The wraps did not move. There was very little escaped ice in this area and I doubt it had a significant affect on the process.

There was a slight improvement in my dent, but not much. I see a few flaws with this freezing process. First of all you cannot control where the ice is going to expand. The ice is not going to just pop out your dent. It could push out any part of your pipe including the good areas, thus deforming the pipe even more. You can try to stop this by running many tie wraps around the body (width) of the pipe to hold the current shape in the good areas. You would have to use a lot of wraps. The second problem has to do with dual chamber pipes. There is a baffle in these pipes and you cannot control what the ice is going to do to this baffle. It looks like the ice may have slightly enlarged one or more of the holes in my dual chamber baffle.

 

[Diver6127]

Yeah, you are correct Ross. I forgot that the TurboII pipe is dual chambered. This method is best used on in-line pipes with only a single chamber. I ahve used this method a few times on my NovaMega pipe and it worked well since it's a single chambered pipe. Best thing to do to get the pipe to expand in the right area is to stand it on end while putting it in the freezer. It's not a 100% perfect fix but it get's it back to a useable state. AAAAAARGH, the pitfalls of touring cars.

THere's always the vantage pipe but I didn't like the results from that pipe. Fuel consumption was bad and power band was affected ... yes even with retuning. The Vantage pipe is really not fitted for BARCAR. Probably for a smaller track like Jackson.