Looking at the first pic again, you can't really see that it triangulates down to support the weight. Looks sorta flimsy from that picture alone.
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What I really liked from the fist picture is the flexible joints... perhaps the physical arrangement is not the best I'd think of myself but it sure allows for manifold expansion and contraction AND prevents high tensile and compressive loads on the manifiold when red hot... sometimes we overegineer a bit... don't we? .... but guess it's always better be safe than picking up the pieces when something goes wrong!! and I certainly want those pieces to be CAR pieces, not my own... yikes!!

I build a manifold for a 12v 5.9 cummins engine in a race combine,made it of 304(it's diesel,for gas use 316) and brached it from the head flange to the turbo flance.
It resieves some hard G and stil holds.http://pic50.picturetrail.com/VOL163.../382976538.jpg[/IMG]
Sorry,have no pics of the brache,but please do brache it,it'l crack.....

Hello all.I'm one of those diesel guys.. lol. I have read this and it is a great thing!!!... but i never read any about the fact that this turbo is also an engine brake... the first 20% or so of the VGT travel is exhaust brake. Just wanted everyone to know this. ( I may have over looked it if it was mentioned). I just got my brand new 351ve in and i am thankful for this info as that the Fleece Perf. controller will not help me. My challenge is to use the EX brake feature of this turbo and for that i will need to Ref - TPS, Brake, MAP i seems that Civi's idea will support this, i have all of the parts ordered and will give updates as i go. THANK YOU EVERYONE!!

Give Fleece about a month and they will have a universal controller for this turbo... I'm waiting (anxiously)

They told me that it would take an unknown amount of time to get ready, who knows maybe theyll surprise me with a phone call. By the way the map sensor on a 24 valve dodge has the highest functional range of any map sensor, 60 ps i. I don't think you car guys will have to worry about that but i will use every bit of that.

What is the latest on this project CivicTsi?

Ok everyone. I'm back in business. Had a lot of things go on in the past couple months. The setup is done and installed. I'm going to screw with it on Monday and see how the controller works. I hooked a servo tester up to the ESC to manually move the vanes and was not impressed. The most I could get out of the turbo was 5psi at about 5000 rpm. I didnt take the motor any higher than that yet. I am rather disappointed. I'm suspecting I have leak in the manifold since it is the first one I've ever made from scratch. I'm sure that would do it. I'll check Monday.

Any updates?

Is there a chance you could snag a pic of this?