Manifold building adventure

[Messiahlee]

Props props props!!! Couldnt have done better myself... seriously if I did it would like this good job man

Rofl Dang that **** is Crazy!!

[ST240]

Zacho,

My ******* china-bay is cracking around the outside of the T4 flange, albeit not on the inside. I'm sure it will crack around the inside if I continue to use it. I think just welding a thicker pass over the cracked weld is just delaying the inevitable... What do you think?

Seeing as how I just cut the flange off it and was going to get it welded to my rb26 that I got from you, I'm thinking of saving that money, and buying a rawbrokerage or something. But they sell for upwards of $1700!!! How much time would you say you put in? If you have 20+ hours into yours, then I guess $1700 is reasonble.

[Zacho]

Have any pictures of what you mean Andre? I am not sure if you mean the crack is on the actual flange OR if this crack is around the weld around the base of the flange meeting the collector.

Like I have said before I am not professional at this. That said, I personally like to drill the ends of cracks in anything I can being repaired. Just taking a small drill bit and taking the time to drill the ends of the crack and then welding over it can actually be a repair to last some time. Like anything repaired though Id still look for a long term solution.

You know the one that I now know after building this is that manifold prices are generally not unreasonable. This manifold took me ~40-60 hours first time round. A lot of that time is taking very careful measurements to get zero gaps on all runner joints & cutting the 6-1 collector on the jig as best I could. After the first manifold it takes much less time since you have a jig/measurements to go off. The $13-1700 manifolds are fair in my opinion. Always thought 6boost was best value I could find.

Might as well post some pics of this manifold installed.

[cortexx]

Good lord .....

Props props props!!! Couldnt have done better myself... seriously if I did it would like this good job man

[cschepp]

That is great placement on the turbo man. All around you did an awesome job. Maybe you should take it up as a side job thing. In sure you could sell these.

[TheyKilledKenny]

Good job dude

[cory]

Amazing job you really got a hand for tig