OK so my old intercooler and pancake pipes where knackered cause the clips had worn and the metal lugs on the pancake pipe had broke, so i replaced with the SFS intercooler and pancake pipe set. The SFS pancake pipe is bigger then the original which made it hard to refit the o/s splash guard that joins the undertray, but none the less i managed to get it in.
My issue is i still have a boost leak from the pipe that joins the plastic pipe on the intercooler itself (pic 4 where it joins the black pipe). Just on engine idle if i put my hands around the join, i can feel air coming out which iam guessing shouldnt happen as its loosing the PSI there........any ideas ?
Really pissed after spending £250 and iam not better off then before, if anything iam loosing more boost, cars smoking more and i feel like iam down on power more so then the old vag leaky hoses.
given my experience with this kit id avoid it. Apart from the rubbing on the drive shaft that eat its way through on of the boost hoses I had hoses constantly popping off. I was glad to get a new set of standard boost hoses on there. Canst say I overly noticed any difference between the two. Sometimes you think something's better cause its been uprated but that's not always the case
I bought the lower set from sfs and it rubbed on full lock,
However the main issue was that after 50 miles of driving the driveshaft rubbed completely through the turbo outlet pipe and even touched part of the end of the metal pancake pipe.
Considering my car is completely standard height with 225/45/17 tyres as standard I wasn't overly impressed!
Sfs said they have ha this problem before and think its to do with different driveshaft sizes on different models. Mines a 54 plate FR150.
I've now scrapped that idea and made my own lower pipe setup using the 1.8t pancake setup and various other bits of hose and joiners and no more boost leaks.
I also found seat don't sell all of the clips and seals seperately but got them through TPS after doing some research. If someone wants to know any then drop me a PM