Sleeping240 wrote:
yeah dude i was just complimenting on his diligence.. but way to jump on someone's case
Sorry sleeping 240, I haven't had luck on some of the forums lately and it's hard to tell when someone is busting your balls/being a smartass or otherwise with the keyboard. That's what it seemed your response was to me, guess it wasn't.
Anyways, I thought of a few more things. Someone mentioned the heater hose coupler melting that heavy throttle sells with their hose kit. It looks like that heater hose connector that comes with the kit that heavy throttle sells is white plastic - could be nylon or a regular plumbing coupler which is not suited for heat. The auto parts store can sell you a 5/8x3/4 heater hose connector (made by gates if u go to napa or carquest) that will stand up to the heat. I think there may even be a coupler in those prestone radiator flush kits that may work.
Positron, if you want a flex pipe megan sells a nice bang for the buck downpipe with a flex joint in it (ebay). If you already have a pipe you can purchase a joint and have it welded on or you can use exhaust clamps. Just make sure you buy the correct joint, either weld on or clamp on.
Noticed the ichiba manifold mentioned earlier. It's a copy of the tomei expreme and it's nice, but it can definitely use some port matching. When I bought mine the stud layouts were off on the turbo flange also so I welded them shut and laid out the holes where they should be and drilled and threaded them for studs. This isn't to say they're all off this much, but if they are you could enlarge your tubine housing bolt holes slightly and make due. Everything did line up well though for a China piece. Unless you shell out the bucks you're not going to get those nice tomei/silk road/peak boost pieces. I'll be making my own manifold next time.
Reason I bought the ichiba is because I bought a megan off ebay and the head-side exhaust ports were way off, not just small, but tilted or too low.
The greddy copy intake manifolds are also nice, they have sand cast (Dull color) and diecast (shiny) ones on ebay for cheap. The ports match well, but the fuel rail holes were slightly off which was no big deal. You'll also have to make a bracket for your throttle cable. It was very nice to get rid of that huge *** stock intake plenum/manifold combo that blocked access to everything on the right side of the motor though. I imagine the diecast pieces have better accuracy not too mention a smoother internal finish than the sand cast, but they are about 60 dollars more. I bought the sand cast one and sand blasted the inside of it to knock any casting slag off and then port matched the runners which didn't take much.
Oh, and gates makes an upper radiator hose, but I cannot find the part number anywhere - waiting on a contact to e-mail me back (maybe he has it). Heavy throttle carries the OEM and the Gates piece, but they took the pictures in such a position so that you can definitely not get the part numbers, lol... So if anyone comes across that it would be nice to post it.
Modified by enterpricorp at 11:57 AM 10/14/2008
