i'm curious whether their updated design is holding up and whether there is any noticable increase in spooling time and power output.

let us know if you have tried one of these manifolds yet.

if no one has i may just try it out and fab up some brackets because i'm still not fond of the thought of a 20lb turbo/exhaust sitting on top of a 1600 degree tube steel manifold.

 

What kind of brackets do you need to fab up? I thought this was just a bolt on unit. I was also wondering this though. My turbo is on it's way out and i think my mani is cracked so this looked like a nice upgrade for a decent price. Thanks
Dom

 

Hit up guitarjunkie he used a fd one on his turbo bridgeport and beat the hell out of it for ~8k miles till it was stolen

 

something to hang the weight on, simple brackets running up to the lower intake could divide the weight and help prevent the manifold from cracking.

 

check out the single turbo forum. There have been a few threads on it and the general consensus was that the older ones sucked but nobody with one of the newer ones has had a problem, but you know how some people are just totally against knock off stuff, not that I'm not but lots of opinions and hearsay and not enough personal experience.

 

not like we have a choice these days, they don't make HKS manifolds anymore right?

for $120 you could put on 4 to the price of 1 HKS anyways.

i have used the SSAC turboback exhaust for almost a year and 14k miles with no problems yet.

 

never used the fc manifolds, but i had the old fd manifold (the shitty one witht he 1/4" flanges).. had to open the holes on the snail to get it to fit, plane the flange because it was warped, and bend the pipes over to make it fit the fc....after that i never had a problem with it, but i welded a 1/4" rod from one flange to the other to help brace it.

i've used a few of the newer fd manifolds (with the 1/2" flanges) and other than the snail bolt holes not quite lining up, haven't had a problem yet...and some of my customers completely abuse their ****....like even worse than i beat on mine

 

My buddy just got his the other day. It looks quite nice. He is going to fab up some brackets though just to be safe. Great deal for the money.

 

ha ha ha!!!

want to know how ssautocrap faires? lol. look at these pics.

Their turos are glued togeather



and their manifolds break.



after excessive bracing of the turbo and the manifold and repairing it. he bolted the turbo to the block with enough metal to sink a ship, yet it still cracked.

 

also note, they also go by obx, xs poer, and ssautochrome.


in the tuner honda world, we call this ssautocrap.

 

SirCygnus, you obviously can't tell the difference between a tig weld and a shitty home-job weld.

that honda manifold that broke was because the owner did a shitty job trying to weld on it and weakened the pipe. not much of a "tuner" if you can't tell that, are you?...

 

and i'm not even defending ssautochrome...btw, obx isn't the same thing.

all i'm saying is i've seen them hold up to a lot of abuse--especially the new ones.

 

i thought SSAC made top mount manifolds???

that term is familiar from the 240sx boys also lol but before i came to this relm they supposedly imporved teh disign of the manifolds and i havent heard that bad of things from them latly.......i was thinkinga bout getting one.....not one of there turbos though lol but the manifold.....hmmm idk....

 

they do look decent now, thanks for the comments guitarjunkie i may just chuck a few bucks at one. (manifold to block fitments was never quite right anyhow with the FCs)


thanks to you too SirCygnus for the biased replies and irrelevant pics.

 

lmao D

 

SSAC just sells the XS POWER manifolds. Not to be confused with XS Engineering. As far as I am concerned the old XS P manis are junk weather SSAC is selling the slightly bettor new ones I don’t know.

 

lemme guess....you've never used one before, right?

 

Thank god not. There has been plenty of documented history’s of the old flanged XS P manifolds for FC's. For instance just ask SonicRat to give you his life story of them. For another comparison Aaron Cake is having success thus far using the new flanged style. This should not even be a controversy just do a search.

Now since SSAC on ebay has been selling the XS P mani for some time it would be easy to assume they have bought a stock of them at some point in time. To me this will cause even a greater risk of having a old style mani b/c who knows if they have depleted there old stock pile and restocked with new style flanges.

 

When the time comes for long-block accessories, if I can't get a cheap HKS I'll probably go with SSAC. Just as long as they insure its the new design, right on!

 

i love it... not only do you have ZERO experience, but you're talking about the fc manifold...not the fd.

 

*chokes* I almost coughed up my food
Nop my researched has saved me the headache of the experience

I think you forgot you strolled into the FC section

Not a damned thing in there about a FD manifold is there. Nop.

 

my post is totally relivent because thats the new style manifolds they sell. the ones for the fc's arent braced at all not one bit. but no, im the dumb one for telling yall not to buy it because everyone i know swears their junk is junk. he doesnt even have waranties on his stuff. and yes, he does advertise obx headers too.

 

"You get what you pay for."
Some people have experienced no problems with theirs.
I've personally seen one up close and personal, and I would never run it on MY car.

It looks like HKS has redesigned their cast manifold with a "universal" wastegate flange.
There was a couple of them for sale on NP for like $300.
I'd rather go with a $300 HKS cast unit versus this crap.


-Ted

 

uhh... did you forget to read the previous posts? we were talking about the fd manifold.

 

i love how the only people who say anything bad about them are the people who have never used them....

and i'm STILL not defending them...just commenting on your ignorance.