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Does anyone know of a good place to accquire some of the special intake hoses at a cheap price? I would have posted in the parts shed but I'm looking for new stuff without having to go to my local Subaru shop. Any help is cool.

Recirc hose is one.

If you want the actual formed hoses I think you'll have to get them through Subaru or maybe Subaruparts.com. They'll be expensive.

I'd use heater hose if it were me....

Heater hose doesn't work. It gets cinched shut.

What application is this for?

I always go to my local crappy parts store, and tell the guy behind the counter what Im looking for. They'll usually let me behind the counter, and pull hoses myself.

I wouldnt imagine thered be enough vacum in the recirc hose to collapse it, but if it does, you could either slip little sections of metal pipe in it, or find a nice long spring to put inside.

Wow, Im really gehtto arent I ?

Thanks for the link.

It gets closed off just by being the angle it has to take to make the connection. It's not rigid enough.

junk yard? never know if you might get lucky and find some in a decent shape. also napa and other auto places sell all sorts of vacuum lines by the foot.

Yeah, I'll try that first and Napa second. I actually wanted to buy new but after getting a few prices..screw that!

word. good luck

If you need to you can also use barbed plastic or metal elbows and stuff from an auto parts or hardware store.

you can also possibly wrap a spring around the hose on the outside. The presure of the coil of the spring keeps the tubing round, while it still can bend more. Need to have the correct spring though, not some thing real weak.
might be ghetto, but cheaper than paying 14 dollars for a new subaru hose only 6 inches long wiht preformed bends.

Wow, that link is really frigging expensive. More expensive than the hoses I got through turboxs. More expensive than Samco brand stuff too.

Yeah, any hose is going to pinch off if you bend it much at all. There's not much you can do about that.

* You can buy a stock part from Suburu if you talking about a stock replacement. Subaru will probably be cheaper than cooking something else up... and obviously it's easier.
* You can buy a long, crazy-shaped heater hose and cut out only a mid-section of it that has the perfect shape. I did that once. Vikash and I sweet talked our way into the back of an auto parts store and shifted through them until we found one that was right.... ish.
* You can buy aftermarket standard segments and connect them all together to make the right shape (a series of 90 degree elbows, reducing straight sections, etc...). Lots of aftermarket companies sell them - not cheap but a bit cheaper than that link.
* Like Vikash said, you can get tighter bends in hard parts (in a hardware store: plumbing pipe. In your standard auto parts store: metal exhaust pipes and plastic "emissions elbows").

Id be careful with the heater hose, if you use it in a place where it has alot of exposure to oil (PVC for example) it will wear out faster/swell, I'd try and find some fuel hose in that instance.