I've just ordered lots of goodies from Smithy. I was going to go with the red hoses on my red car. Smithy said this might be a bit much. Does anyone else have a red car with red hoses? If so do you have any pics of the engine?

 

This second question may seem daft and I won't go into why I want to know but has anyone ever had one of these shiny pipes pop off their engine due to too much shiny and not enough gripy? :dance:

 

Jonno.

Yes me.

 

Ah that looks great MAC :) Red it is!

 

Have they ever popped off though ? :)

Ah that looks great MAC :) Red it is!

 

Have they ever popped off though ? :)

Yea once,but have been ok since;)

Did the remedy involve anything other than tightening them back up? I would hate to have my shiny pipe pop off in public.

LOL yea crap hose clips;)

Yes me.

 

 

 

Macca has red everything - even nail varnish ! LOL :D

Macca has red everything - even nail varnish ! LOL :D

 

LOL cheeky **** :xxx:

Do those blue bits show up on all red hoses? ( if that makes sense? :confused: )

 

Dave

 

BTW Mac, u must av spent a lot of time polishing ur bits for them to be that red and shiny :D

Do those blue bits show up on all red hoses? ( if that makes sense? :confused: )

 

Dave

 

BTW Mac, u must av spent a lot of time polishing ur bits for them to be that red and shiny :D

 

Dave all the hoses in there are Smithy ones,some have blue inside and some don't :confused:

 

Over to you Smithy.

Cheers Mac, in the early years and Mac was the very first customer of these, i used a certain make of hose band, simply cos they polished up well, they turned out to be not very good if you wanted to remove and replace the hoses, say when cleaning the TB's, easily worn, so i changed to proper Jubilee make about 18 months ago and they are fantastic, you can remove them as often as you like. The blue inside his hose sleeves is yet another early thing, Mac's are genuine Samco sleeves and this is something Samco do, they coat an existing Blue silicone in what ever colour your having, hence why you can see it from certain angles, now and for past 2 1/2 years i've used SFS hoses and nope you don't have any blue inside of them. Sold absolutely hundreds of these kits now Worldwide, Japan, Aussie, America, Netherlands and Germany, so extremely popular when you consider HKS ones are really awefull to look at and very expensive too, i would also imagine nissan stock hoses are even dearer, who knows. Hope this explains all guys and many thanks to all those who have em sitting proudly in their engine bay, from Mac's picture you can see they make a big impact.

cheers, smithy

Looking forward to getting mine :)

 

I've bought almost everything he sells cos it all looks the nuts \o/

 

...and talk about great prices!

I had all my hard pipes formed with a ridge to stop the hose's poping off under high boost levels while I was at SE having me tubs upgraded.It was only a small gismo they used.Why dont you do this Smithy?

Smithy has actually offered to do mine for me as he's such a geezer :)

I had all my hard pipes formed with a ridge to stop the hose's poping off under high boost levels while I was at SE having me tubs upgraded.It was only a small gismo they used.Why dont you do this Smithy?

He does if you ask,did mine years ago.

Cheers Mac, in the early years and Mac was the very first customer of these

 

That's right mate,and dont forget the PS tank too;)the quality on that is awesome!

Mac, I know your car has everything, but a P**S Tank !

 

That's just lazy, why can't you stop at the services like everyone else!