What would you pay for a manifold that will never break?
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What would you pay for a manifold that will never break?
Im just wondering if we could get a general consensus on what the average person would pay for a turbo manifold for a B-series and possibly D-series engine that would be pretty much gauranteed not to crack. The design would be like a short tubular manifold. If the location of where these welds are would crack with would cost almost nothing to repair it. Let me know what you guys think. Because I am trying to get some info on the possibility of a manifold made on a CNC machine.
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Re:What would you pay for a manifold that will never break?
What something like this?
A guy on HMT tried selling this along time ago, he couldnt get the price low enough. It was around 400 bucks.
Whitey's right, its really only the SS autochrome mani that breaks. All the log manis and most other custom ones dont break because they arnt using taiwan 25 gauge stainless shitsteel like the obx/ssautochrome.
People want equal length manifolds that are cheap, people want manifolds that look crazy. ---- like this
Jeff
A guy on HMT tried selling this along time ago, he couldnt get the price low enough. It was around 400 bucks.
Whitey's right, its really only the SS autochrome mani that breaks. All the log manis and most other custom ones dont break because they arnt using taiwan 25 gauge stainless shitsteel like the obx/ssautochrome.
People want equal length manifolds that are cheap, people want manifolds that look crazy. ---- like this
Jeff
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Re:What would you pay for a manifold that will never break?
Originally Posted by trebor_nordap
that CNC manifold looks like complete ----! and that tubularone looks crazy! 
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Re:What would you pay for a manifold that will never break?
Originally Posted by Rx7toStarion
Originally Posted by trebor_nordap
that CNC manifold looks like complete ----! and that tubularone looks crazy!
That CNC manifold looks like a glorified log manifold. Nothing will ever replace tubular merge collected manifolds as the best
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Re:What would you pay for a manifold that will never break?
that log manifold looks tight
but ---- that equal length one, that thing looks like something that belongs in a hair brush.
The wildest I'd ever go is something like the "g-girth beta2 drag volume 3 prototype ls/vtec tt beau dp model 3030303039934434ver2.20.11.b2 chapater 4 level b size 10 side a-3"
er...yeah.
btw, ---- that study where they swapped the log for a equal length then the log produced just as nice as the equal length then at 4500rpms the equal length gained 50hp...my ------ ***... (points out vtec wasn't there on the first run)
nathan
but ---- that equal length one, that thing looks like something that belongs in a hair brush.
The wildest I'd ever go is something like the "g-girth beta2 drag volume 3 prototype ls/vtec tt beau dp model 3030303039934434ver2.20.11.b2 chapater 4 level b size 10 side a-3"
er...yeah.
btw, ---- that study where they swapped the log for a equal length then the log produced just as nice as the equal length then at 4500rpms the equal length gained 50hp...my ------ ***... (points out vtec wasn't there on the first run)
nathan
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Re:What would you pay for a manifold that will never break?
you weren't at the dyno so you don't know whether or not vtec was there. the problem could have been that the extra exhaust gasses exiting the engine due to the larger vtec cam weren't effectively managed by the log manifold. or it could be that the log had a shitty tune.
