Stock mani and turbo cracked!

[T-M]

So for the past 2-3 months I've been trying to get my car to run, if it wasn't my rear caliper going bad something else would come up. I have a stock S13 200sx with a c18det from factory. When I bought it last year I did a few things here and there: FMIC, walbro, Tanabe coil overs, Fuel pressure gauge and z32 fuel filter. So I drove the car here and there cause I have a GS300 that I decided to drive instead since driving here in Germany requires high speed and I didn't want to push the little CA 100mph steadily down the autobahn. Anyhow, my car would start hesitating like when you have a vacuum leak. It would only happen when lets say I was on 4th gear idling below 2500rpm, i would then have to down shift and hit the gas. I concluded that my turbo was bad.

So I take out my turbo, replace it with a t28 put it on my car, take off the mani again cause the t28 I had seems too worn out and at this point I noticed the STOCK MANIFOLD was cracked inside and had a few hairline cracks outside as well, you really can't notice them but I was able to spot them by following the cracks from inside, i could also see black dust around the cracks, which means it leaked from there! I then went to the garage and noticed the t25 exhaust part was cracked as well. all this happened in a two day span, before this my car hadn't been moved due to caliper problems.

I tried looking for a stock manifold, but couldn't find one at a decent price. I didn't want to pay $100 for a used manifold without me physically seen it, so I bought a tubular manifold (it hasn't arrived yet) to be in the safe side.I've read post that say you shouldn't use a tubular manifold unless you grow out of the stock one first, and that I believe is around 300bhp. (correct me if am wrong) with that being said, will it be really that detrimental to my set up if I run the tubular manifold?

Also, can I replace the exhaust housing from the t25 with a t28 housing? the t25 actually has no play and spins free as a bird and I have a spare t28 housing I can use. (NO I CAN NOT, THE T28 HOUSING IS TOO BIG, JUST CHECKED!)

Thanks for reading guys and hope I can get some good feedback. Take care!

AJ
Modified by T-M at 1:45 AM 11/1/2009

[float_6969]

The tubular mani is fine, it's just laggy and not as responsive.

[T-M]

thanks! I'll still buy a regular one just in case the tubular mani is too lagy for my taste.

anyone have a ca18det manifold for sale? OEM!

[ragenasian]

I told you I could probably get you one here in Germany.

[T-M]

I told you I could probably get you one here in Germany.

You're right, you did! Let me know how much it would be, hopefully no where near 100. Thanks Jason!

[bradt]

I have a few laying around. I could let one go for cheap, but shipping would probably be pretty high.