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Mar 5, 2007 | 12:09 PM

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sean23johnson

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From: Thousand Oaks, CA

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Originally Posted by CSIPSD

Also look at your clamps, this happened to me just a few weeks ago. The clamp was broken but in a weird way, you would clamp it down and it would feel tight. But the threads where all bunched up in the clamp area. Replaced ALL the cheap plumbling store clamps with good 3/4" wide T bolt clamps and picked up 8#'s of boost... Yes that is correct 8#'s!!! went from 27-30 to 38#'s!!!

where did you get your clamps?? i also am looking into upgrading my clamps.

first, which clamps are you talking about???

Mar 5, 2007 | 12:15 PM

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CSIPSD

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From: Bend, OR

All of them, from the turbo to the IC to the Y pipe to the manifolds... Got them from Fastenal (special order but there in there catolog).

Mar 5, 2007 | 12:25 PM

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sean23johnson

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From: Thousand Oaks, CA

cool. i installed all new boots and clamps from dieselsite about 6 months ago when i installed my 6.0 I/C but the clamps on the Y-pipe boots to the manifolds are cheasy hose clamps and i want to replace them with T-clamps like the rest of the system.