Rubber Joiners Have Split

[Iceman Gene]

I brought myself a XR6 Turbo 5 weeks ago, and have been doing upgrades every chance I get away from work, so far I have done the Growler CAI, and a wog cooler(for now) and are in the market for a good exhaust at the moment

but the reason I post this thread is to find out if anyone has upgraded or replaced the rubber joiners that join the alloy chamber that sits over top of the engine with "Intercooled Turbo" written on it to the throttle body and the plastic turbo intake pipe going to the turbo....? I had fitted the larger FMIC and Growler intake and intially the car went a little better(not as much as I was expecting) but none the less I thought it was just the exhaust and standard ECU still holding the power of the beast at bay, but as I did a service on the car in the weekend I pulled the top alloy champer off to replace the spark plugs and found the rubber joiner that is on the throttle body was 30% gone! and man when I seen this I was so releaved to find this as this explained why my car had felt like it had lost power even though fitting those bolt on upgrades...

but back on topic I need to replace all of the joiners just for pure satisfaction its not gonna happen again a few months down the track as I do drive it like I stole it, lets face it I am a drifter and buying the XR6 Turbo was one of the first things I had to do when I moved here to OZ they are great car with great power!, so does anyone know if there is a silicon option to replace these or does everyone just replace them with genuine Ford parts which are $55 each, if there is a silicon option can anyone tell me please and the size that is required, as I am 1000km away from my car for work I can't just remove and take down to the nearest Repco or Autobarn to match up to a universal silcon joiner....

any info is most appreciated

[rbjet]

Had the same thing happen to me mate. Those factory joiners are crap. Not 100% sure on the replacement sizes but I'll get back to you if I find out.

You'll also be replacing that wog cooler as soon as you find out that it doesn't cool very well haha. I went through the same thing.

[SPYHON]

same thing when I got mine found split in bottom of hose got a silicon hose replacment at auto pro think its 76mm or sumptin dont quote me but they only had one size anyways and that was right size had to cut length a bit but only $16

[tommyputt]

I had the same problem. My joiner to the trottle bodie cracked and I was losing all my boost. I refused to replace the old joiner with the same crappy ford ones so I brought a 76 mm silicon joiner off eBay and barely squeezed it on it looks good and works a charm. There is a 80mm option that fits better but I couldn't find it weeks ago. Give those a try

[Iceman Gene]

Thanks for the feed back, I did have a small idea the wog cooler was not gonna cool as efficient as a proper cooler that size would, we all know they are chinese and most chinese copies are sh*te, but I thought it was only $200 and it was twice the size of the OE cooler so thought I can't really lose too much but thanks for the heads up on it though, I am eyeing up a decent cooler upgrade... maybe a plazman or the likes,

Thanks for the sizing of the silicon joiner also, I will start looking for a 76-80mm silicon joiner asap

[Iceman Gene]

Thanks for your feedback I have a direction to head in now