Here at Flex Technologies, we’re proud of the huge variety of high-quality silicone hoses that we create, and our auto enthusiast customers love them, too! It is our goal to be the #1 destination for meeting all your silicone hose needs for your performance upgrades on your vehicle. But let’s back up a step and start with the basics. Many of our customers who are using silicone hoses for the first time ask what exactly these silicone hoses do to improve performance.

Is a silicone hose any better than the OEM hose, or does it just look nicer?

Silicone hoses definitely deliver value to your vehicle’s performance. In fact, the reason why people started manufacturing silicone hoses for the auto industry in the first place was precisely because silicone material offers such a valuable performance enhancement. Let’s take a look at the properties of silicone to see why it does affect your overall performance in a positive way.

Heat Resistance

Silicone’s superior heat tolerance is the major reason why silicone is the material of choice for performance-enhanced vehicles. If you add a nice turbocharger to your engine, you’ll get some sweet power and impress all your friends, but if you neglect to upgrade your hoses at the same time, you will potentially drive all that extra heat into hoses that aren’t equipped to handle it. Your OEM hoses weren’t designed to accommodate all the enhancements that you know you want on your racing vehicle, so get the silicone hoses that will do the job right.

Flexibility

One of the beauties of silicone is that it is a very stable material that acts almost like new, even when it’s old. While rubber hoses are prone to cracking, getting stiff, or becoming dry rotted over time, silicone hoses are much less prone to this. In fact when you remove a silicone hose that has been installed for years, it slips off almost as easily as it went on. This resilience makes the silicone hose much less likely to leak or rupture. If you’ve ever had this happen, you know what a headache this is to diagnose and correct, and it definitely impacts your performance for the worst. Start with the right material from the beginning when you upgrade your vehicle’s performance, and you won’t have to run into unnecessary setbacks down the road.

Price point

Unlike many other performance upgrades that you can choose, silicone doesn’t cost a lot of money, allowing it to be a very accessible part of the upgrades you install in your vehicle.

Ease of making custom shapes

If silicone was extremely difficult or labor-intensive to mold into shape, then it might be much more expensive than it is, but fortunately, this is not the case. Silicone can be molded into precise shapes while maintaining its unique combination of flexibility and rigidity. This is a great advantage when you need a hose to bend at a precise angle, or a tube that has a custom diameter. Flex Technologies has a library of over 2000 different custom shapes that we’ve produced in the past, and if you are looking for a certain shape of hose, there’s a good chance that we’ve made it before and can just make some more for you. Even if not, you can contact our engineering department for a quote to get a custom hose made exactly to your specifications. You can even ask us for hoses made to fit precisely the way your OEM hoses fit. They’ll give you the amazing performance you’re looking for and look great at the same time.

Count on Flex Technologies every time you need silicone hoses. We are here to serve you, so order today!