Alright, so I was heading home from school last night, when I start to get on it and all of a sudden, the car loses rpm's, then tries to idle going from 450rpms to like 850rpms and then it shuts off. So I coast to a stop going O F*CK and I am losin my mind. Then I try to crank it back up and it runs, but idles fluctuating between 450-1000rpms. So now I am really like wtf? I start thinking about what it could be and start checking all of my intake electrical connections...they are all fine, then I start checking hoses, get to the j pipe on the turbo, and it is completely off and the clamp is gone. So now I am reallly like wtf bc I dont have any clamps or tools. So I get it back on after 20 mins of looking through my car and find a zip tie. Then I baby it home and everything is ok. The funny thing about it was, right when it happened, I had just gotten off of the phone with a friend of mine with an eclipse who had just blown his intercooler piping off of his car.
So I am on my way to school this morning, and the damn thing blows off again.(I put a new hose clamp and tightened the sh*t out of it, but when it blew off, the hose clamp was really loose.) So now I'm not sure what to do. Does anybody know of anyone that makes aftermarket hose clamps?

 

Yes there are aftermarket hose clamps. Two i'd go with are called T-bolt and spring clamps. Any local performance shop should have them or online somewhere. I have them on my dsm they hold very well.

 

ya happens to me quite often. the T clamps will work very well at holding the ic pipes on

 

mywnterbdr, do you by chance own a galant vr-4 and live in wisconsin?

 

No, but I do have a Eclipse GSX as my other car. My audi is just my winter car. But I do know whom your talking about, he no longer has that vehicle.

 

Yeah mine blew off the other day too with me standing infront of my car and someone reving, it kinda freaked me out to this "whooooooooooooossh" hit me, climbed down and it sounded like a tornado underboost.

 

What really sucks when your on the freeway and it blows off and then your under your car on the freeway trying to get the damn hose clamp back on so you can get outa there. Had a friend in my car when it happened and he didn't know much, but when it happened all he could say is, "cool, is it supposed to be that loud?"...[>:]