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New turbo, new manifold, new intake,




It still in tunning procees but makeing full boost at 3200 revs it hits a lot earlier and once its finished it should do 330bhp at the wheels with only 16 psi :beer

That manifold is pure sex!!!!! very very nice!!! What specs are the turbo Garry?

thats gonna cook the brakes and clutch master if they dont refit the alloy heat shield i made up!

Holy shit you've got a lot of advance on that cam gear. Also, I hope to hell you loctited the shit out of the bolts on it.

Gazza IMHO you are Qld's king of bling :) :beer
ps RZ r u a mind reader :o

redzone wrote:thats gonna cook the brakes and clutch master if they dont refit the alloy heat shield i made up!

It actually alot cooler the manifold is a long way away from the steering box it got cooked from the old manifold it was actually touching i don't have much faith in that hpc coating its running a heap cooler

steering box is the least of your worries, tell em to refit that heat shield or the brakes/clutch master will cook..

i second putting the heat shield on, had a friend with the turbo in same position and he would have no brakes after a bit of hard driving as the fluid would boil in the master cylinder and lines.

yeah , refit that heat shield rofl !!!!! it was there for a reason !!!!! :D

Yeah my manifolds are ages away from the clutch cylinder, and I ran without a heatshield for 1 week and it was long enough to do damage to the clutch cylinder. ANY heat is enough to dry out the seals. Redzones advice is top notch :beer

redzone wrote:steering box is the least of your worries, tell em to refit that heat shield or the brakes/clutch master will cook..

I didn't want to sound nasty but the manifold you built cooked my steering box which was already rebuilt it cost me $750 also it dosen't get that hot because the manifold flows alot better

kit wrote: it dosen't get that hot because the manifold flows alot better

You mean to say the you have managed to find a manifold that flows so well it doesn't absorb any significant heat from the 1000 degree heat of combustion that occurs in the engine? If it flows so well, theory tells us that the exhaust gases will be hotter and the manifold should see more heat.

ps.It's probably an idea to keep personal attacks to PM's.

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i wasnt getting nasty garry, just trying to save you having to get your brakes and clutch systems rebuilt again.. and if they think a turbo beanie is better than an alloy heatshield they need their heads read. or doesnt the heatshield fit anymore??

Nicely made manifold, but if you had the $$$ to spend maybe you could have ditched the power steering all together with a manual box conversion and had the new manifold made to sit the turbo further forward away from all these fluid/hydrolic components.

Hindsight is a wonderfull thing and this is the sort of problems you encounter when trying to acheive something custom, good luck with the car, wish it was mine.

The manifold has been insulated with heat wrap FYI the manifold is a copy? of a design the Yanks call a rams horn