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That truly sucks, Stillen includes some extra hose to cover the A/C lines to prevent this from happening. I agree with the others, the shop that installed your intakes should

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Old 05-05-2011, 01:07 PM   #16 (permalink)
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That truly sucks, Stillen includes some extra hose to cover the A/C lines to prevent this from happening. I agree with the others, the shop that installed your intakes should be held accountable for ignoring instructions which then caused the damage.
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Same thing happened to RCZ I believe.

I tried to make sure that when I installed mine that there was a good gap between the two and added some split rubber hose around the line just incase things moved. It is noted in the installation instructions.
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I bought mine months ago and the only rubber hoses that came with it is the ones that you use to connect to the intake and the intake resonators. But as always I read up on everything that I install before doing so. So I knew what to do. So I bought some fuel hose to wrap my AC lines and my oil cooler lines.
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Last winter... so probably around november.
Mine just went because the installer didn't wrap the AC lines...got mine installed in October. Weird it took about the same amount of time to rub through.
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did you go back to the shop that installed them? What did they say?
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This sucks, I feel your pain, and it is common here (there's a few other threads from years past) When i got my G3's two years ago they didn't come with the rubber piece. They tore through 1 set of AC lines and I had to get it replaced. Then I installed my own rubber piece to keep it from happening and it almost tore through that over 18 months. Now I'm moving on to different intakes.
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did you go back to the shop that installed them? What did they say?
They say that silicones or rubber whatever they should have used to cover the intakes, are too weak, so they put cement on it and rubber on top of it.
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This sucks, I feel your pain, and it is common here (there's a few other threads from years past) When i got my G3's two years ago they didn't come with the rubber piece. They tore through 1 set of AC lines and I had to get it replaced. Then I installed my own rubber piece to keep it from happening and it almost tore through that over 18 months. Now I'm moving on to different intakes.
What other intakes are you looking at?
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This is a big issue since Stillen V3 is supposedly one of the best intakes for our cars...

Seems like a few have already had this issue...

Anyone have a stronger suggestion or recommendations? I guess we have to keep an eye on the A/C lines?
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This sucks, I feel your pain, and it is common here (there's a few other threads from years past) When i got my G3's two years ago they didn't come with the rubber piece. They tore through 1 set of AC lines and I had to get it replaced. Then I installed my own rubber piece to keep it from happening and it almost tore through that over 18 months. Now I'm moving on to different intakes.
I can't see how that could happen if you used heater hose or even a piece of garden hose to wrap the AC lines and secured with zipped ties. Is your intake tube really loose because the hole that was cut is way too big?
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This is a big issue since Stillen V3 is supposedly one of the best intakes for our cars...

Seems like a few have already had this issue...

Anyone have a stronger suggestion or recommendations? I guess we have to keep an eye on the A/C lines?
It's only an issue if you miss that step about wrapping the AC lines. The G3 is still the best intake to go with.
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It's the best intake if you don't track. I'm considering removing mine if I can't find a proper way to insulate it. At the end of a session my intake tubes are at 200 degrees and bringing the intake charge temp up quite a bit. Heat soak is a killer. Plastic is an effective insulator, so I think Nissan got that part right.
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It's the best intake if you don't track. I'm considering removing mine if I can't find a proper way to insulate it. At the end of a session my intake tubes are at 200 degrees and bringing the intake charge temp up quite a bit. Heat soak is a killer. Plastic is an effective insulator, so I think Nissan got that part right.
Hey Chris, Have you looked at a thermal blanket? I'm having to Canyon Carve and have noticed the difference once the intakes reach max temps under the hood and was looking at a way to keeping the intakes at or close to ambient as possible.
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