Your call of course.

BUT

With shipping causing grief,. and you are getting stuff anyway, and that hose is always the Sunday hose.

Thats Aussie for: "That damn thing is split coz I am doing something unrelated and its Sunday and nothings open, shoulda got that spare one years ago and just put it aside"

That is one of the very few hoses you cannot substitute for a Mazda, Dodge, Toyota anything.

$20ish, hardly worth a second thought in my opinion.

 

Ah, I see your point (or think I do). Even though it's not split yet, it is likely to split some time in the future, and it's best to have one on hand as you'll need to pay for shipping anyway. Gotcha. You make a sound point.

 

SD
I quite understand, it is just that I have a policy, when I change hoses, of always using the best possible replacement; this to ensure no further problem from that item in the foreseeable. For instance, I swapped my crosspipe (water) hoses for the same Viper items I recomended for the balance pipe. This is because they go downhill very fast, and OEM crosspipe hoses are a "replace at 5 years" item I have found. By contrast good silicone items last for ever.
The crosspipe hoses are not coolant, but the quality of OEM hose is to give a reasonable service life - our cars are all far, far beyond what the factory considers that length to be. So I am sure the OEM replacements will be OK; but, they are not "fit and forget".
Greg

 

Okay, I see where you're coming from. The idea that the originals are basically designed to last as long as the first owner has the car, but you (well, fans like us) want to keep using it decades later, and for decades to come. I'm too used to the idea of aftermarket = cheap crap like URO or other Chinese knockoffs.

The question in that case is, would these segments of silicon hose be the right shape? The shape appears to be important. I've seen vendors selling silicon replacement hoses, such as one in China on eBay, and I'm not sure I'd trust that (though red or blue hoses would look cool).

 

Your balance pipe hoses are different to what we have, because you have the air injection stuff there, and the balance pipe sits higher than the fuel rail, where ours sits almost at the same level and we have simple straight sections of hose there.

Our hose part number is the same as the water hoses on the front cross pipe ends, but the "with air injection" hoses are a shaped hose, so I would go OE and move on.

 

Okay then, OEM it is. Thanks.