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Subject Anyone installed a Z1 2.5" IC piping and Ash intake combo?
     
Posted by Woody75 (Denver) on March 13, 2013 at 11:30 PM
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Message If so can you posts pics of your setup. I'm having issues and have talked to others that ran into these same things. Working on a customer car and cant get this combo to fit. The Z1 IC pipes have the recirc fitting higher than the other IC pipe kits for some reason. It appears its made to work with the stock intake pipe only as they curve up and out of the way more. With the Ash pipes the 2 ports point at and basically touch each other.

He is a pic of my CZP pipe for a comparison of the port location. Using the intake pipe mounting bolt on the frame as a reference point, the Z1 port is higher than that bolt, the CZP is lower (I believe the Ash port is lower as well as I didn't have this issue with his pipes as well). Don't know why they chose to put the port that high.

With the Ash hoses/intakes installed. Even if somehow I can get a recirc hose on there it will kink the intake hose. I also have to flex the pipes out of the way just to get one or the other hose on. Then I have to figure out how to get the bovs he has to fit. Almost thinking I have to go back to the stock intake pipes under the headlights and his selin intake hose/filter set up. This will let the recirc hoses fit better (at least they seem to fit in the Z1 install guide pictures) and give a few options. But being everything is installed that will suck to do at this point. Not good. He may be stuck getting a set of stock recircs and hoses as well in the end.

Had other issues as well. The Z1 pipes seem to be made to fit better with a non fluid HICAS setup. The passenger side hits the extra port/hose on the powersteering res deforming it. The angle of the pipe should have been made better so it didn't point that direction as far.

Same issue on the drivers side with the fuse block but not near as bad. I can live with these issues though.

Any ideas, comments or suggestions?


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