By this time tomorrow I should have a homemade torque tube installed...

Gonna use the stock elbows, just replacing that pos tube with the baffles

Today I was able to acquire a 12" piece of aluminized pipe, 5"OD and a big piece of aluminum conduit, 5" ID with 1/4 walls....

Both will have to be cut to length, cleaned up, and possibly some minor machining for the heavy stuff...

So now I'm wondering which to use? Do I paint the thin-walled stuff, or polish up the heavy walled pipe? Is weight a concern? Which would be louder?
Descisions, descisions

 

thinwall should be fine I have a piece of five inch emt pipe which is about 1/16th" thick probably resonates louder than the thicker too.

 

I used 4" aluminum intake pipe from airflow online, and 4" rubber elbows. The pipe was pretty cheap, no reason not to go ahead and spring for it over the aluminized pipe. I don't think the stock elbows (any intake elbows?) would hold up the 1/4" wall stuff.

 

What he said......

 

Yep....

 

I got mine from airflow online too, heres a pic of it

 

I've been looking at everyones gallery pics, decided to go this route for now, maybe later I'll slap in an AEM Brute Force intake...My dad works at a powerplant, so getting large diameter tubing is easy, just heavier than I thought....Wont be a problem to do tho...

 

So whats the added benefit of a torque tube.
Real world data please.

 

Probably less restriction.....definately more turbo sound....about as scientific, real world data as it gets .

btw- my tubing is 5.5"...looks just like Horsehauler's pic...

 

Pics in gallery but I used a 5" chrome stack piece. Made it look nice and chromey.