Hey guys
Some of you know I bought a red grand am with a custom turbo setup on it. Well right off the bat i knew there was a nasty exhaust leak on it... sounded bad and stunk inside car.
Looking at the exhaust manifold while it was on the car it looked like a bad welding job so today i pulled off the turbo, then the manifold and wow... the manifold just flat out sucks. Whoever welded this thing should get / be fired from whatever place they work at.
Theres several cracks in it... and a few pin holes if you look down the turbo flange you can see light coming in from the bottom of the manifold... its bad. So its getting sent out to get re-made with a guarantee of no cracking.
Later this week my new gauges go in, along with the new engine mounts and tranny mounts. Then when the manifold gets back here I'll hook up the wideband (which i need to order) then I can get some tuning done.
Its the first big step, and im excited...
Here are pics of the trash manifold that was on the car:
http://www.esbob.com/turbomanifold
-Bob
made it was "home made"??
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Custom turbo manifold welding job from a shop in Minnesota not purchased by me... Id demand money back if I paid someone to make that... yeah its homemade though from an exploited manifold it LOOKS to me anyways.
which shop in minnesota is doing it for you? are you in minnesota?
Well I have this to say yeah that mani suckx looks like crap and the weld job is really nasty to but, I will say this just so I am not completly negitive at least it worked you have to give them that it may have not worked well but it worked
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No I live in Wisconsin. I bought the car from someone in Minnesota who had all the work on this car done by "Pro's" in Mankato. The setup did work but now it wont build boost because the manifold has so many leaks in it.
I bought the car and I am redoing the setup.
-Bob
omg, you call that a welding job?
looks like the "log " portion was welded tig, then someone got their mig out.......
mig welding for pressure vessels is stoopid.
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Nope thats not my car.... this is my car
Looks like an Exploited manifold with a modified collector....
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I'm pretty sure thats what it is. Just took it into the metal shop to get all welds removed and its getting re-welded with stainless welds. I know the square tubing going to the turbo isn't the best design, but it will work. I'll post pics of it after its re-made.
-Bob
you don't just weld mild steel with stainless welds. not sure what you meant there.
that's a pretty @!#$ty looking manifold... or what they call a manifold.
I was a retard, and now I'm permanently banned.
coldfusion wrote:you don't just weld mild steel with stainless welds. not sure what you meant there.
I'm not sure what I meant there either... the metal shop is taking care of it though and I'll post pics of it when I get it back...
oh my god! Will someone PLEASE think of the children!
that exhaust manifold leaves a lot to be desired.
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
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I've seen that manifold in the local paper, in the human interest stories. The headline read "Blind Veteran Learns Welding." But I thought it was only a practice piece!
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slowolej wrote:I've seen that manifold in the local paper, in the human interest stories. The headline read "Blind Veteran Learns Welding." But I thought it was only a practice piece!
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lmfao... I can't tell if you guys are making fun of me though lol... I bought the car with this ass manifold on I didn't pay anyone to do such fantastic work...
just picking on the manifold.
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^^^ that poor manifold need luv and attention...or dumped in the waste basket
