Tubular Manifold

[ajcluck]

Hi all, i am looking at these tubular manifolds on eBay for gt-4 (st205) and was wondering if anyone knew if they were ant good? and if they can tell me if you can fit an external waste gate to them?

[GTForbes]

what ever you do, DON'T BUY ONE ! they are crud, they actually have a smaller inner diameter than the standard ones.

you can fit an external WG to a standard manifold via a sandwich piece

[ajcluck]

cheers buddy. so where do i go for a tubular manifold and could you explain more about this sandwhich thing?

[GTForbes]

what sort of power are you aiming for as the standard manifold is good for nearly 500.

the sandwhich thing goes inbetween the manifold and turbo and allows a wastegate to be fitted or a differant fitting of turbo, i.e. T3 housing ;)

[ajcluck]

i am looking to get bout 450bhp, just liked the look of the tubular manifold. ahh, cool cause fensport said i would have to buy an hks manifold to house the external wastegate, but if was near £1000.

[GTForbes]

they would as it's a product they sell ;) i'm not saying that their wrong as i have bought many a product from them however their way is not the only way

[ajcluck]

Cheers for the advise, i will just stick the the cast manifold then. where can i get this adapter to fit an external wastegate to the manifold?

[GTForbes]

lol, XS power, the same company that would have been selling that manifold, it does need modifying IIRC