Just wondering if anyone had some experience to share. I noticed no one runs them. anyone have a clue why?
never heard of them…do they have a website?
and some of their stuff is designed by h-t member FFGeoff…which, if you go to www.full-race.com you’ll see the quality of his work. the man’s an engineering GOD.
i talked to a guy named curits page, used to be lapage which is my last name, i assume he is the owner. awesome guy, really informative. i got my tial 35mm and manifold from him. i showed my dad(welder) and he said the thing is built tough, 100% stainless. he tells me they sell a downpipe that allow me to keep my AC but since were making our own he just gave me some real good pointers. quick service. 
EDIT im worried about the way the turbo is almost parallel with the exhuast ports on the head. seems that it will place the turbo a little highier then the drag and revhards manifolds. also will i need a elbow with this manifold. he told me that i wouldnt but i dont know if he was 100% on that.
Originally posted by Haberdasher
never heard of them…do they have a website?
Their name is all over HT. Can’t personally vouch for their stuff, but as Mark said, most people feel that FFGeoff’s work is amazing.
As far as weld-el manifolds go, I’ve seen better…and I’m not digging the wastegate port position
Originally posted by Haberdasher
As far as weld-el manifolds go, I’ve seen better…and I’m not digging the wastegate port position
can u give reason to why the wastegate port is in a lousy position?
this guy is and he runs 11.32@123
Originally posted by internet ay
[B]this guy is and he runs 11.32@123
Victor Santana's B18 Bomber [/B]
thanx for posting that. im just curious but do any of u dump to the atmosphere from the wastegate???
i was considering doing so, but the noise, smell, and the nasty crap you get all over your engine bay are all making me hold back from the commitment. i’ll probably have Geoff make a dumptube that routes back into the downpipe. yeah, it makes a tad less power…but hell, it’s not a full-out drag car i’m building, it’ll be plenty powerful enough to do what i wanna do, and the comforts of no smelly, no noisy, and a halfway decent engine bay are much more favorable i’m thinking.
Originally posted by zoomintegra
i was considering doing so, but the noise, smell, and the nasty crap you get all over your engine bay are all making me hold back from the commitment. i’ll probably have Geoff make a dumptube that routes back into the downpipe. yeah, it makes a tad less power…but hell, it’s not a full-out drag car i’m building, it’ll be plenty powerful enough to do what i wanna do, and the comforts of no smelly, no noisy, and a halfway decent engine bay are much more favorable i’m thinking.
mines gonna be pretty much a weekend cruiser/race car. i dont plan on taking it out much since ill be buying a brand new 4x4. im tired of driving in the teg and socals stupid city workers couldnt pave a level street if they wanted to. then again i cant blame them fully its not their fault i lowered my car. i was thinking of making a dump tube to the atmosphere but what the hell might as well route it in the downpipe. no biggie. just wondering if anyone did it.
a lot of the turbomafia guys (on honda-tech) have theirs dumping open, but most of them are around 10-ish psi. I’m going to be a tad higher 
so i know it’s gonna be a lot louder than theirs are. and avoiding a super-loud exhaust is one of the benefits of being turbocharged.
Originally posted by DA9_LS-t
can u give reason to why the wastegate port is in a lousy position?
The best place to have the wastegate port is where it can get fully collected gas flow from all cylinders. It’s also best to have the port positioned so that it takes advantage of the direction of gas flow (so that gas isn’t having to make a dramatic turn in some direction to get into the port.
In a Honda these are both quite hard to do, espcially the second one. The best place to have a wastegate port would be post collector but pre-turbo, obviously. With a log type mani (Drag, RevHard etc…) you’d have to add some kind of extension onto the bottom of the mani between the mani and turbo and have the WG port coming off that, if you did that you could even take advantage of the direction of gas flow, but available space in the Honda engine bay doesn’t allow this kind of thing.
So the best thing to do with the log type mani is to have the WG port centrally located over the colector like inline pro does
So the above weld-el mani is some where between the RevHard and Drag type mani that locates the WG port almost exclusivly on one runner and the inline pro mani which has a much better location. I’ve never seen one of the inline pro manis up close but they look very good. I’d like to get one, I’d take one of their manis over a tubular turbo header…
i shouldve known that but thanx for bringing that to my attention. its common sense actually im pretty amazed that i was blind to it. i assume it causes a turbulance in the flow to the turbo.
yeah the big reason i got this manifold was it was going for 318$ for a while but went to 369$.
im not going turbo yet but that is a maxrev manifold i jsut wanted to take pics of it.
must be a raider fan. not only does the longblock silver and black, so is the engine stand 
I’m going to be a tad higher so i know it’s gonna be a lot louder than theirs are.
Wouldn’t yours be quiter? The higher you boost the less exhaust gas you bleed off, correct?
Besides, having the dump tube running to open atmo. is one of the perks of having a turbo setup. It’s not this raspy farty exhaust sound it’s more like a roar… something that can be compared to a V8 with straight pipes. 
In order for me to keep the engine bay clean, and so i wouldn’t be bothered by the fumes, I routed the tube to the bottom of the car.
Oh ya, here’s my manifold before it went on the car.
bah.
that’s a weaksauce manifold.
now THIS is a manifold.
heh
Originally posted by zoomintegra
[B]bah.
that’s a weaksauce manifold.
now THIS is a manifold.
heh [/B]
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I wish the manufacturers would stop using the ray jay (diamond) flange design. They are to prone to warping and leaking, and even if they don’t warp they are a real pain to seal, a 4 bolt or even 3 bolt design would be way better.