turbo upgrade: stock exhaust manifold or dc manifold?

[Fenvy]

this post is for a s13 sr20det

well if money allows, sure, I'd love a JIC or a HKS manifold but that's not the case.

I have a new gt2871r .64ar t25 flange, I am picking it up locally

I previously bought a DC manifold as shown below:

someone made a comment about it

I'm not saying its junk, and I'm certainly not trying to hurt your sales, but look at the last picture that Loveless posted. The pipes aren't flush with the flange, esp. on one side, the welds don't look nice and smooth at all, and there appears to be welding slag all over.

and there is just a thread about someone's turbo blew due to ****ty manifoldhttp://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread?id=131371

it really makes me think about it..... whoa

I guess I wouldn't mind spending up to 500$ for a nice manifold, but that's all I am willing to spend, anything more is just kind of too expensive and itsn't practical for the hp I want to make (which is just around 300whp)

so yeah, I would like some feedback from you guys

[1991S13]

I said use the DC manifold. I doubt a reputable company like AEM would sell a manifold that is going to blow a turbo.

I don't know a lot about machining or manifold design, but can't you take it to a machine shop or something and get them to clean it up a little bit?

[doohopark]

ya the last picture looks pretty bad, i wouldent trust the slag in it, get the inside polished at a machine shop, or you can do it your self, get some dremmel bits if you don thave a die grinder, if you do have a die grinder use some 120 flapper wheels to clean it up followed by some cross buffs to make it nice and shinny.

[Fenvy]

hey... how baout this? silk road



anyone have photos of the runners?
Modified by Loveless at 2:20 AM 8/20/2005

[Anand]

i just bought and installed the ebay ssautocrack one... holding up fine for now.. looks good and for $110, if it cracks.. I'll just buy another one...