Rb20/25 Turbo Manifold

[RedDrifter]

Are these any good? Has anyone bought one and tested yet?

Made from steam pipe and side walls are approx 3 mm thick.

http://www.ebay.com/...d49c0e6&vxp=mtr

Figured steam pipe would be better against cracking than s/s.

Edited October 30, 2012 by RedDrifter

[PN-Mad]

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/391632-steam-pipe-single-turbo-manifolds-on-fleabayanyone-know-anythging-about-this-supplier-and-their-products/

[LANDSCRIBBLE]

Ive got one. havent got the car running just yet but its gotta be better than the stock manifold, permitting it doesnt crack after a few months.

[jet_r31]

I bought one aswell,sent out today... hope its pretty close to o.g turbo positioning, ain't got much room on a stagea...

[t_revz]

Ive got one. havent got the car running just yet but its gotta be better than the stock manifold, permitting it doesnt crack after a few months.

Have you mounted it yet Luke? How far is turbo from stock position?

[petero'nell]

Check through hypergear's high flow thread. It looks identical to what they've recently tested. It was up against a local hand made manifold as well as a factory "high flowed" manifold. From memory it made the turbo laggier but had similar power as their version of modified stock manifold. Either way it will out perform full standard factory exhaust manifold, so worth getting.

[89CAL]

Looks like the Hybrid performance low mount manifold:

http://www.skylinesa...ost__p__6542665

EDIT: couldnt see the seller, it is the same lol. Can't speak from personal experience, but Hybrid have a pretty good rep and there supposed to be a good quality manifold

Edited October 30, 2012 by 89CAL

[LANDSCRIBBLE]

Have you mounted it yet Luke? How far is turbo from stock position?

Yeah Trev its bolted on with the motor in the car but havent bolted the dump onto it yet or anything else, apart from the oil/water lines. I am told its to use standard turbo positioning.

Just a little heads up, with the motor on a stand It took about 3 hours to get the manifold bolted on. A couple of the studs had to be shortened a bit because they were fouling against the pipe, also 2 or 3 of the chunkier washers wouldnt fit. There was barely enough space to fit a spanner in a few places, I might have to buy a longer open ended spanner to get some more torque on a few of the nuts.

No biggie for me, still was glad to throw the stock manifold in the bin, lol.

[Philr32]

How long did it take for you to receive it?

[LANDSCRIBBLE]

A little over 2 weeks.

[Hanaldo]

How far from a tune are you Luke??

[LANDSCRIBBLE]

3 weeks at a guess Martin.

[Gus_32]

Just wondering if there was any progress as to anyone knows how these manifolds go because i'm looking at getting a set myself in the near future.

[LANDSCRIBBLE]

im booked in for a tune 4th december, ill be sure to report results!

[Gus_32]

im booked in for a tune 4th december, ill be sure to report results!

Thanks mate. Keen to see the results!

[M@&k]

Also keen to see results.

How did you go fitting up dump etc? Did it end up sitting in the standard position?

[hypergear]

Ok here are some results using the cheap side mount V stock manifold V local hand made manifold.

Pink is ported stock manifold, Been the most responsive, but lowest in power evening using more boost.

Solid Red is the cheap side mount. the laggiest and required bit of work for it to fit properly. Power isn't bad.

Thin red is local hand made side mount, slightly laggier then stock while making the most power on least amount of boost.

For a budget its worth its money. I would still go for a proper side mount.

[LANDSCRIBBLE]

Also keen to see results.

How did you go fitting up dump etc? Did it end up sitting in the standard position?

with the dump bolted on the turbo, the cat (still in standard position) was sitting about 20cm away from the dump flange. managed to get it all bolted on alright in the end, just had to do away with the support bracket that goes on the dump/cat flange.

and Stao, cool graph man. i would be happy if i achieve similiar results. slightly less boost and more power sound good

[LANDSCRIBBLE]

Got the car back today. Pretty happy that the motor is running well after being rebuilt, although a little disappointed that it has a boost issue. Cant seem to get a steady boost line, let alone at 20psi.

Anyway regarding the manifold, not much to say really. It holds up fine and roars a little louder?

Need to fiddle with my kando actuator a bit more i think, it was made for a SAAB after all lol. And maybe find out if my HKS EVC-S is anything more than an expensive digital boost gauge (POS apparently).

Still want to get it tuned with 20psi going through it

[hypergear]

Its not bad result for 15psi. With the Kando's actuators the casing appears to be thick at where it bolts onto the bracket, it has lot less travel compare to a normal actuator means it won't open the wastegate very far. Its not a bad thing if you are trying to hold 20psi with a EBC, but won't be very effective for low boost.