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Sweet as, removal of turbo and test fitting to happen this weekend. Hopefully i don't have the classic broken stud problem. Although looking as my stock manifold it does look like it has come off previously hopefully they were replaced then

Here is the picture as promised Looks like it could use a little port matching, but is it really worth it?

Can this new VNT housing be made for external gate? I just purchased a wastegate and highmount so as discussed a month or so ago my turbo will be comming back to you soon. Will try and get it off this weekend

Manifold arrived yesterday. Very quick turnaround, looks very well made. Will start ripping my car apart this week. Any one want and specific pics?

Down south where? If your near albany an old friend of mine runs a workshop with an AWD dyno. Doms Workshop. He knows Skylines aswell.

Stao read my post from a few days ago im willing to trial one for you.

Good point guys yes the cheap stainless ones work well but end up cracking. This one should not crack and do just as good of a job as a 6boost item expecially considering my power goal is only 300-350rwkw. Slippylotion how about a wager? If this manifold has any issues or needs any extra work done on it or has any issues making the power i will buy you a bottle of Jonny Walker Blue(Or some thing similar if you dont drink scotch) And if every thing works fine i get a bottle of Blu off you. Up for it? Here are my main reasons for buying this manifold. 1) I have a morgauge 2 car loans and a bike loan, I would have never gone for a new manifold if i had to pay $1200 for it. 2) Cheaper units have been proven to work but had issues with cracking. Being steam pipe the cracking issue should be sorted. 3) My car is a budget build So far I have the following for it: Deatchwerks 740cc Injectors $660 Deatchwerks 300LPH fuel pump $200 Adaptronic Plugin ECU $1200 Hypergear ATR43G3 turbo $1400 (Included oil line and dump pipe) Ebay Intercooler $Thanks Jarod All pipe work will be custon made by Kermit About the only big budget item is the 3" Jap cat back that I got second hand of Snozzle for $800 And now Tial 44mm Wastegate $170 second hand and top mount for $469 including postage. Lets look at my savings so far Injectors I saved about $600 Fuel pump I saved at least $100 ECU I saved at least $800(I would not have purchased a PFC) The Turbo is actually going to now cost me the same as if i purchased a Garrett due to having to make a new rear hoursing for the external gate. Wastegate saved $430 buying second hand Manifold saved $700 Exhause I haved $400 buying sencond hand So a total of about $3030 saved buy not buying "The Proper high quality items" I can not see one item here that will hold me back from my power goal. Any comments on my though process are welcomed. An please tell me if you can see me doing any thing wrong??

Stao I need to send my turbo back at some stage to get the external wastegate housing made but was thinking do you need one of these turbo's tested? I'm willing to give it ago for you.

Yay my manifold look sick Can't wait to get it

Get a quote, it will be over $800.

Sorry I was referring to the rb20/25 design not the sr/ca design

Split pulse design my ass more like flow direction assistance.

Have a good look at the factory manifold. It may look cleaner than that but flow wise would be a totally different story. They are all merging together at a much for friendly angle that a stock one. Also you can buy premade perfect looking merge collector for around $300 a piece thats going to add a few hundred to the price of these manifold. I have purchased one purely due to price. It is going to be better than the stock manifold even with its current faults. Not to mention its proper steam pipe and should not have the cracking issues the stainless ebay items have. Win Win I say.

Stock manifold making over 500hp? Was this with WMI? or E85? Yeah im sure it could be done without either but how efficient was it?

What manifold and gate are you using? is it an ATR43g3?

Also purchased a Tial 44mm Waste Gate last week. Definatly keping the HG turbo on it. Sending it back to Stao for a new rear housing at some stage to get rid of the internal gate and get the fnt upgrade. Gonna see how far this turbo can be pushed, we have all see the internal gate versions pushed hard but i have yet to see a external gatted pushed(Dont think ive ever seen a dyno result) 350rwkw maybe?

And on a side note, Game of thrones season 2 out today yay

Just pay'd for mine.

Can you please PM me with price for a rb25 top mount with vband for Tial 44mm wastegate?

I got the plugin adaptronic ECU, all installed just saving money for high mount and plenum now.

Money transfered for the Gate i have PMed you my address. Cheers

My G3 has the wastegate flapper stick. Wiggle by hand and it was all sorted.

Steven, Scooter for the Win. My skyline has been off the road for over 6 months. So for the past 6 months I Have been sharing a car with the wife, until this month when my work hours got changed. Went and purchased a brand new Adly 50cc scooter for 2k. My 14.4KM journey to work is now extremely fun, fuel costs have gone down from $75pw to $20pw(Including oil) and biggest thing, parking has gone from $75pw to nothing. Only thing I have yet to figure out is how to have my 2 morning drive smokes when on the scooter.

I ran my ATR43G3 for a year without being tunned ran it on 7 psi and its ran great just laggy. Loosen off the actuator so its sloppy comming on boost and you will be fine hitting up to 5 psi on stock tune

You seem to have as much luck as I do with cars. Hopefully you get some good news with the oil sample