After all this time I received my manifold from HS today. It is a nice piece, welds look good overall. Not extatic about the turbo flange but I gasket matched it to the T28 and it lines up pretty good. WIll have to clean it up a bit. Here are the pics. FWIW I have an extrude honed T28, if I had a standard T25/8 exhaust housing I would not have to port the flange out at all, so despite the appearance it will flow just fine.
yeah....that doesn't seem to be HS's best work there..........it could look better........................and it seems to have strange pipe directions......................but hey, if it works, it works!
I bought the piping kit which includes Manifold, DP, IC piping, couplers and clamps. I paid $1250 for the kit.
I bought the rest on my own. As for the manifold it is a good design, pulse converter manifolds work pretty well and project 200 is indicating they have great boost response which is what I am after. Time will tell if I am happy with the performance.
That was the exact same manifold I looked at last week! I was going to trade mine in because I didn't like the flange on mine either but then they told me they aren't doing the pulse converter manifold anymore, as you can see when you look up from your flange the four pipes come together into one chamber... the one I have has a divider down the middle so the pipes are paired off like a set of headers.
you can see a little above my finger and running along side it, is a piece of metal. that is the divider.
Last edited by James : Jan 22nd, 2003 at 09:20 AM.
some tips:
1. might want to "slot" the head flange as to prevent the mani from cracking.
2. use anti-seize on everthing when u install it
3. after the first couple of heat cycles, torque down the mani again to the head.
4. be prepared for the mani to turn a purty gold
I thought the pulse converter design was the individual runners. The exhaust gas pulses are seperate al lthe way until they reach the turbo for the most part. I wonder how much difference that spacer will make, they all dump into the turbo right there anyway and it;s not a divided housing turbo. It would be interesting to compare the two back to back. And that's alovely red X James, hit us with the real link, I'd like to compare the two a little more.
I was thinking of polishing the manifold since it's stainless, I love that polished heat cycled look.
Hopefully the extrude honing of the turbo will help with spool up.
That is a very nice design. My manifold has runs just like that and I have the divided housing turbo. Hey Wes, I do think that it would look awesome polished. Congrats on getting the part. Hope to see you boosting soon. Oh and if you can make it to the SE-R convention, we can hang out.
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Well I was gonna say it looked like shit but didn't wanna hurt anyone's feelings. Look at the weld right inside the exhaust flange where the big ol buger is on the inside of the weld. That's nasty and will hurt flow. The collector is just as bad. This should have been back purged to clean up the welds on the inside of it and welded at a lower heat. The welds shouldn't be dark gray like some of these IMHO after 30 years of welding. Send it back and tell them to fix it
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give me a bit I'll take some better pictures of the inside of mine and you can get an idea... it's similar to the one Wes has but the welds are a BIT cleaner.
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