Well if you say it fast the price isn’t bad. The compressor I can’t price we bought that when I was a teenager I recently replaced the compressor and motor for 1.3k. Lowe’s has a 80 gallon 175 psi for 2k. My air drying setup is all cheap stuff for the most part somewhere between 1 and 1.5k.
Here is a thread I started the other day near the end of it it shows the fruit of my labor of air drying. My setup is by far from perfect I add to it as I can. What's your opinion on amps? - #35 by Phillipw
If I tell you what the piping is these guys will unfriend me🤣. My dad put in thick wall PVC right at 30 years ago. I have had 2 fittings blow in that time. Some people use PEX. There is a flex pipe system sold for compressed air no clue on the price.
The screw on filters come from harbor freight they are just the last chance jobs you can get nice disposable ones from motor guard also.
Look inside the coupling you can see the brown dust coming out of the dry tanks.
Because I have the dry air tanks I really don’t see any major pressure drops all my equipment can pull out of those tanks unrestricted except for the disposable filters. The farther you run the more you will lose. I even have my setup underground 90 feet to my mom’s basement. The larger you keep your plumbing the better but you can go overboard too.
My compressor is in my garage I wish it wasn’t for a couple reasons. One space two noise three in the event it could fail rare but it does happen. The failure would be contained.
To slave a addition tank I removed the compressor, plugged the pressure switch connection, then brought my air in through the compressor inlet and just added a quick connect to the outlet.
With all that said I heavily modified almost every piece including the filters in my drying system to make sure everything is at least 1/2 inch. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you are confident in what you are doing.
Oh and A+++ for asking questions the way you did before you jump in too deep. I just hope I made some sense! Feel free to ask away the only dumb question is one not asked.