Alright, for those of you who hated me for posting just a link in my last topic, this time will be different!

So I purchased a TPC a/c compatible turbo manifold from someone on egay. Long story short, the manifold seems fine besides some VERY wierd cuts...yes...cuts, not cracks. It seems as though the person who owned it before me intentionally cut between each individual runner on the manifold.

My question is: Is this even usable still? If it is, what is the purpose of cutting like this? Any info would be helpful - thanx a million HMT.

 

Pics not working!!! FIX THAT ----

 

damn they were just working a second ago!??!?! WTH...---- imagestation. Anybody wanna host them for me?

 

Imagestation sucks. Try using Imageshack

 

Those cuts are there to relieve the stress from heat expansion. It doesn't harm anything. But I'm only assuming cause you suck at teh intraweb.

 

thanx for the info

 

they're called stress cuts. like whitey said, they are there to let the piece expand and contract as temp changes to help prevent cracking. very common thing on turbo mani's.

 

mine`s all cut up like that(Maxrev), works fine.

 

you should be f ine

guess i should cut mine HF mani like that on the band saw

 

either way
if your skeptical about it, i'll take it off your hands
and you can get another one