Veloster N Intercooler Kit

I've had this intercooler kit on my DCT Veloster N for a month now, and in that time, I've gone through two hot pipes. Both times, the carbon fiber hot pipe ended up cracking along the seams where both halves are joined, and sliding out of the couplers, introducing a boost leak. After the first pipe cracked, SXTH Element's support was very gracious and replaced it under warranty, and even provided some suggestions to keep this from happening again. I followed their suggestions, I made sure the clamps weren't too tight. I made sure to clamp the pipe behind its raised edges. I made sure both ends of the pipe were deep into the couplers. It made no difference, the pipe actually went and cracked even worse than the first time. I ultimately ended up replacing the hot pipe with a piece of exhaust pipe I had cut at a muffler shop.

Carbon fiber is fantastic about dissipating heat, I can see the appeal in wanting to use it in a hot pipe. But as I've unfortunately discovered, it can be very brittle, especially when dealing with boost pressure. As such. I feel sufficient warning needs to be given of this fact, but no instructions are provided with this kit, nor can any be located on this website. So my question is, what is the expectation here? It felt like there was no winning in this situation. I felt like my options were to either get yet another hot pipe and clamp it so loosely as to not encourage any confidence that it'll be held in place under any significant amount of boost pressure, or to just forgo the provided hot pipe entirely and get a custom pipe made.

Frankly, considering how much this kit costs, I am not satisfied. I will admit, the core looks fantastic, the couplers themselves are of high quality, and in general my IATs are lower (even with the exhaust pipe). But I cannot advocate for the hot pipe. Even if I did have the clamps too tight (which admittedly is possible because as I mentioned, no instructions were provided), for $1,000 I should have the confidence that every component in this kit is durable and capable of taking a beating. The fact that these hot pipes cracked so quickly and easily is extremely concerning and keeps me from wholly being able to recommend this kit.

Easy to mount. Was a little confused with the 2 similar 45 and 35 degrees hoses.

This shipped to me so fast, it was crazy. I did the install by myself easily. There's multiple install videos to follow. The quality was top notch as usual for Sxth.