im starting to piece togather my new setup (b16a) ive noticed there are alot of mani's that resemble the SSautoshit stuff of course i dont want a peice of junk that will crack on me, so how can i tell the differnce between the quaility and crap? what abou the "obx" stuff how can you tell if it's a knock off?

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33742

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33631

"OBX" mani and downpipe
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33742

 

do yourself a favor and buy a cast manifold instead of tubular, it may not be as pretty, but even a cheap cast manifold like the one i bought on ebay for $225 for my b16, will never break, any tubular manifold you buy on ebay or for cheap from anywhere is gonna crack and break, cast is the way to go....

 

not for more power... flows okay unless ur tryna get in the mad hp numbers... turbular equal length is the way to go.

 

cast does crack by the way
and when it does have fun welding it

 

none the less all 3 of those look like they would crack near the turbo section, i would suggest cast myself also

 

cast might crack, but not as easily as tubular, especially those cheap *** tubular manis on ebay, and there are high hp hondas with cast manifolds, cast may not flow like tubular, but for a modest street car cast is the way to go, its 100x stronger than tubular...

 

id much rather go with a tubular design over cast, at least on this project. Tuboda6 im assuming your speaking form experience, what kind of tubular mani worked out for you?

 

I would stay away from all those manifolds.

 

then where should i buy one that doesn't have a ridiculously high price tag?

 

do you guys really believe that you have to have a tubular mani to make big hp numbers? bull ----......you could make 500 whp on a port matched cast mani, bottom line is cast will last longer and is much more durable than any of those junky *** tubulars on e-gay, if your gonna use a tubular you better fab a quality one on your own, or pony up the dough for a $600 manifold, otherwise your wasting your money, if you cant fab one, and cant afford an expensive one, then buy CAST......