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      09-28-2016, 03:18 PM   #87
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Originally Posted by Chicken_Joe View Post
Call me stupid, I was told by a buddy who talked to one of the techs at our dealership that the chargepipe a typically break because the engine flexes and not so much from boost pressure. So couldn't you theoretically solve the issue by removing chargepipe and coating it with that crazy ass Line-X stuff that makes things industry table and then fix the issue
Maybe they've changed the stock CP design between 2012-2015, but the OEM pipe itself flexes quite easily (see the ridges in the middle), so if the engine flexes, the pipe should also. This undamaged example was pulled from my 2015 after my proactive swap to an ER CP.
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