[QUOTE=unified112;2303669]Damn man, of all the things that could happen…
What about tucking the radiator under the radiator support? I suppose it’s not likely that it will fit because it’s not designed as a “tucked” rad… Fuh…[/QUOTE]
That would be nice if I could do that, but it’s too tall for that. I contacted goautoworks and we’re discussing my options. I’m in no rush so I’ll do my research and figure this all out
Try to shave the block some more…With the Log cast manifolds, the compressor for the turbo normally faces the passenger side. If you are really like those style of manifolds, you could try an Inline Pro. Same style and flows great. Check it out.
The block is shaved as much as it can go. I cut all that webbing out over there. After talking to some people and discussing some things I opted to go with a different style manifold.
After looking around for some used ramhorn manifolds or any tubular manifold for that matter for around 300-350 I couldn’t find anything that would work or that I liked.
I did however find a small company in Arizona called Advanced Ignition who sells a mini ramhorn style manifold (might be just a guy who does this out of his garage idk). I emailed the guy and he said it’s $350 shipped, and has a lifetime warranty if it ever cracks or has any issues he will fix or replace free of charge. The thing looks good to me, and the seems like a good deal for $350, but idk I’ve never bought this stuff. After emailing him a few times and asking questions he sent me these photos so I could get a better view of it.
He said it’s made from 304 stainless which apparently is what most companies use. To me the welds look nice (I’m not a welder though so I don’t know). He also said it was designed to have the hotside of the turbo face the passenger side of the car which is what I want, plus with the lifetime warranty it seems like a good deal.
Thoughts?
Make sure that whatever you go with is back-purged and properly cleaned…
According to the guy it was
Looks like a nice piece and you can’t wrong if he warranties his work.
My thought exactly. I’m ordering it next week
Ordered it last night =] I’ll post some photos when it comes in
So the new manifold came in today =] Everything on it looks great and so far I’m more than happy with it
Put it on the car and it fits perfectly. The studs that mount the turbo aren’t the same size as the other manifold so I wasn’t able to mount the turbo, but I was able to hold the turbo on there and it also fits perfectly. Everything will clear without issues now =]
I will get some better photos of it tomorrow with my actual camera. I’m so excited all of this is gonna work out now
Got around to taking some better photos of the manifold.
Found a few random bolts that fit so I mounted the turbo to test fit it and the manifold together
Fits like a glove in the car = ]
Ran into a slight issue when I went to mount the wastegate. The bolt holes don’t line up, because the flange on the wasgate hits the turbine housing =\
The flange on the manifold touches it, but isn’t the problem
I either need to grind out a tiny groove into the turbine housing which I don’t want to do, or grind some off the flange on the wastegate which seems like a better option. It’s only off a tiny amount. I held the wastegate up to the manifold while it was in the car and the wastegate will clear everything so I at least know it will fit in there just fine.
Bottom view
The oil return is lined up with the very bottom of the block so when I go to make the oil return it doesn’t seem like it’ll be at much of a downward angle =\ that will be a problem as well if I can get that to angle down.
I decided to just trim the flange on the wastegate slightly to get it to clear. I put a grinding wheel for a dremel into my drill press and held the flange up to it until it took enough off. It really wasn’t much actually so that’s one more problem taken care of.
It doesn’t touch it at all now
Just to show there is a gap in between there
All bolted up for now
Next step is to get the oil return figured out. I was going to order the kit from brfittings, and I saw on their page it said this “Please call when ordering with a Mini Ram turbo manifold. The oil return lines on those are really tricky. The standard kit won’t work with those type of manifolds.” So I’ll contact them and see what they say I need to get to make it work.
Decided to redo the top side of the cold side piping. I wanted to eliminate the bends that were there and the pipe with the bov flange (90 degree next to throttle body) would no longer work cause the catch can was in the way for the bov. So now this is how the cold side will be and I can place the bov wherever I choose. Now I just need a coupler to finish up the hot side and then get it all welded up…then make it look pretty after that.
Nice progress!
Thanks. It’s all at a stand still for now. I need a 90 degree pipe to finish the hot side, I’m still waiting on my boost gauge. I should of had that thing weeks ago. I need to get the stuff for my oil return, but not sure what to get yet. And I’m still looking for someone who lives around me who can weld up my piping. I probably wont have any updates for this until December, which bums me out. I wanted to have this all done by the end of the year, but I can tell that isn’t going to happen…
Figured I’d post something just to keep this thread alive. The turbo setup is still going on, ran into a big setback though. Found out the car had a blown or leaking head gasket when I took my oil pan off. The head is off the car and has been for a few weeks. I’m waiting till after the holiday season to take it to a machine shop to get milled, hot tanked, new valve seals you know, that type of stuff. Nothing is happening right now because of that so I’ll update things when I can =[
Well, keep plugging away at it! Glad to see that your manifold and WG/turbo worked out though!
it’ll pay off at the end,well worth it. trust me on that.
I am, slowly but surely. Yeah I’m glad it worked out too. I was not in the mood to buy another manifold
Hoping that’s the case.
