just stopped by the shop to check out the new manifold ready for my fc. thing is super sick and sexy





its a divided t4 with the big boy tial wastegate, i cant wait to get it on the ride soon, the thing is beautiful

 

TIG weld orgasm! beautiful it is indeed, how much did it set you back?

 

Be awfully close to the frame rail no?

Beautiful manifold, absolute work of art.

 

wow I would like one with a stock S4 flange...

very nice good job

 

s4 turbos are useless.

 

very nice, hot damn!

 

Looks good. Now how about some pictures of the inside of the runners? Anyone can make nice looking TIG welds.

 

I disagree.. and I will prove it with my engine...

 

I think what he means is that it is almost pointless to build such a nice fully divided manifold for a highly inefficient turbo designed 30 years ago that tops out around 250 HP.

 

yeah well I'm still under 250rwhp so I'm going with the cheap option for now... at least I don't have to fight electronic OMP and a heavier car.

 

that was pretty much on it. no one builds a manifold like this for a stock turbo.

 

they do if all they want is the stock turbo....

 

beautiful manifold, put some pics up of it mounted on the car, and what is the cost?

 

In that case, Mazda has already supplied you with a manifold.

 

http://www.neukin.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=5

 

i want pics of the V mount

from that site

 

I clicked a few links...found this. It looks interesting. Nice to see more products for the fc.


http://www.neukinracing.com/rob2cars.htm

 

hey guys the inside of the runners are flawless. this thing is welded by real people not robots YAAY. anyways. That V mount set up in the pic is a very old set up and has completely changed. I will get some pics up of the new v mount set up asap, it is beautiful as well.

 

Too bad they have no clue how to run proper pipes for the wastegate...


-Ted

 

Yeah, but then neither does anyone. 90% of the aftermarket manifolds seem to have wastegate runners added as an afterthought.

 

What would the correct way look like then?

 

The correct way to plumb wastegate runners is at a very shallow angle to the main runners, with the opening of the wastegate runner facing the exhaust flow. However due to space limitations this is not always possible since most people don't want their wastegates sticking up above the turbo near the shock tower. A great place to put runners is to "Y" them in right at the exhaust ports and have them curve around between the exhaust flange and turbo flange to exit at the rear. Starts to get tricky as you don't want really tight bends to restrict flow.

 

hmmm i might look into that since im in need of a manifold soon.

 

Get these guys building SDJ Header copies!

 

That thing looks solid, i like it!