whats a good manifold to go single turbo on ??

 

Contact sean at aspec tuning. If you have time and money, he will take care of you. Prestine quality and guaranteed for life

 

what about this one? FD3S Rx-7 Turbo Manifold - Turblown Engineering

 

This. Sean puts out a top quality product along with invaluable first hand knowledge from building these cars for many, many years.

 

 

I would.consider.other.fabricators aside from turblown and aspec. For 1. Theh think a 2 runner manifold should.cost the same as 4 runner manifold for I-4 engines. I guess less matierials and labor means nothing... this maybe cause they think the have the market cornered as most people dont know amy better or.dont know of.other fabricators. Try ctd fabrication with vince who.used.to.work for full race. Cheaper and just as good if not better and he is also a turbosmart distributor.

 

I am not associated with ctd fabrication.

 

Having looked at that facebook page, I didn't see one rotary manifold.

I truly believe in you get what you pay for. And the quality of Turblown's manifolds are superb.

I think mine was definitely worth the money paid.

 

Here are a few pics.



As well as a link to show level of quality on work we do. None of our manifolds use "weld els" All are bent stainless tubing in our id's that we choose for the application.

https://www.facebook.com/A.specFabrication/photos

~S~

 

Ha! Too funny, you got us figured out! Actually Elliot and I get all are manifolds made by little manifold midgets who we pay only in vanilla wafers so as to maximize our ripoff potential.


~S~

 

I bet that you stole umpa lumpas from the vanilla factory
Sean, the manifold and downpipe you made for me is nothiglng short of a work of art.
These are great fabricators. Custom made a 13b re single turbo manifold for my fc, and even knew well enough that the mounts were in different locations then the stock cosmo!

 

You sneaky bastards!

 

https://www.rx7club.com/single-turbo...nifold-933389/

Here is a thread of a guy ending up with a ctd manifold. The pictures are down for his manifold, not apecs or turblowns though.

I am still happy with the quality of my full kit which included 3.5dp, divided mani, dumps, 2x comp40 gates, and one race port BOV. all to work with my s360 BW. (sourced elsewhere)

He threw in free egt bungs on the manifold and gave nice discounts on my turbosmart stuff. for the package buy.

There are other options that are just as good is all im trying to say.

 

I am not 100 percent sure, but I believe we are sending the new over of that car one of our manifolds. Car is currently over boosting because of manifold design...

 

That's all you had to say versus accusing Elliot or I of taking advantage of people.

I missed your buddies response about single versus dual and rather than resurrect the thread I'll leave it be, I will just say being divided is not thee reason for picking up power it's part of it. People are wrong to assume that gate flow is suddenly responsible for all flow.

Wouldn't surprise me...

~S~

 

I was under the same impression, 2 runners, 2 flanges, 2 wastegate flanges, + welding does not equal $800.

since then i have been more active on the forum and see turblowns posts, full of data and results, this manifold vs that manifold, this turbo vs that turbo. with all the information and testing wit his manifold make the $200 dollar gap between what i bought vs what he sells doesn't seem to far.

 

Its wack that when someone.asks for options everyones only gives turblown or aspec. To me, its bias. It quickly gets rubed in everyones face as the only options, which is far from the thruth.

 

Only reliable options

I hear Gato performance is good, too.

 

I agree because there are plenty of manifolds out there but people only endorse name brands. It's like that for any advice for parts. There are knock offs and off brands that do the job just as well if not better without the cost.

 

So, if you needed brain surgery (to me fabrication is damn near that when it's done at their level of skill and finish) would you contract an orthopedic surgeon? Still a surgeon right, probably cheaper. Should be able to do it right?
How about the people who are asking for a recommendation anyway get pointed in the direction of those people who have invested countless hours into combinations of tried and true design and fixturing. If they knew exactly what they wanted/needed, would they be asking for the recommendation in the first place?
Lots of people can weld metal together that will bolt up, but incorporating the right considerations for the customer's specific application is best done by people who do it for a living, on the vehicle in question.

 

BIAS!!

Will someone mention something other than the certified vendors..

Just saying.

<---- FTS

 

Both companies produce good products but they are the only options. Before I could make manifolds, my friend made mine, it's still on my car for over 5 yrs still working good, so there are definitely more options out there. For the price the Obote companies are selling their products for, I can't argue with them, it's up to the consumer to decide if they want to spend that money and not do any research. Just my 2 cents.

 

I actually sell my flanges and tubing that I use to others so they can make their own manifolds or as some have done have someone else make their manifold for them. I have been on this forum since before there was a forum as has a few other vendors, we have spent countless hours in helping and moving the community forward. I personally have people I have spent untold amounts of time with helping them get their stuff situated and sold them nothing as I'm sure other vendors have. I go out of my way to respect other vendors on here even as much so as to not put my signature down in their threads. Maybe most people see this, maybe they feel that if some of the vendors have put in the time and effort then they feel it should be them who gets rewarded or at the very least first mention. Anyone who wants to buy a manifold isn't stupid it takes two seconds to type into google and start digging for what you're after. You certainly don't need RX7club to find you a manifold.


If the bickering continues I will close the thread and the OP gets unjustly screwed. You want to suggest other options have at it either paid vendors or names are fine but no links to non paying vendors pages/websites, other than that there is nothing further to argue.

~S~

 

Completely false.

I can't count the number of times I've seen a car come into the shop with an ebay/knock-off/made in china manifold that has:

(1) exhaust leaks due to manifold cracking
(2) melted right side motor mount due to piping sitting on the mount
(3) uncontrollable boost due to wastegate placement
(4) exhaust leaks due to warped flanges, either at the block or turbo
(5) contorted oil and water lines due to poor placement of T4 flange

The list goes on and on. My point? If you want to build a junk car, then by all means use junk parts

 

Rich-

Part of the issue is also that in the last 3yrs+ or so the FD has dropped in value to the point where people who really can't afford an FD...can afford an FD.

Allow me to elaborate. Someone can now buy an FD for 8k-12k but that amount then taps them out. They then want to jump into the upgrade game and no longer have money for quality parts and it becomes...EBAY TIME! They then wonder why their car works like crap.

We all know there are certain knock off parts that aren't rocket science and work fine. However the important parts...people are just silly if they don't go quality...in particular with all of the good used parts on the forum for sale.

In regards to the "Fabricator X being just as good as Turblown or Aspect but cheaper." Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't see "Fabricator X" sitting on the forums spending valuable time answering questions and assisting others with their knowledge...much less in comprehensible English. I'll happily pay a premium for QUALITY parts from Aspec and Turblown that have been used and proven good by many, many FD owners than pay less for someone who isn't giving back to the community.

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