rick fab!!!!
 

Beautiful. Few welds to crack :)

saw this on my fb, they be lookin nice

it should work really well, id imagine itll make whatever the turbo will make. if alls go as planned it should be on a test vehicle soon. im not so sure if i wanna do the traditional tear drop w/g inlet. ive got a couple ideas. i wanna beable to eliminate creep wile using a 44mm gate.

please excuse my purple engine bay. apparently jesse and i still have fans from his si back 5-6 years ago. lol anyway heres a couple more pictures of the manifold in my car.

Looks good sir, I can't tell on my phone but is that thin wall or sch?


Mike

Schd 40.

Ill take 2

sold!

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thank you very much man. :bigsmile:

where the hell are u getting the bends for that at? that would save alot of time in prepping and welding. i realize ur probably not goping to say but i thought i would ask.


mike

I do them for him. I broke my thigh-master, so he let's me exercise by putting his pipes between my legs and squeezing.

Lmao! Deadbird is right! You got me. Mike. I bend them myself man. =)

what bender gets them that tight? not that im going to run out and get one. i personally like all the welds in the current trend of manifold construction but i do the like the idea of less prepping and welding for sure.


mike

well I had to spend quit a bit of money actually. But I personally wanted to build something that hasn't been done something that looks great flows well. I bend them an a cnc mandrel bender. I didnt wanna build manifolds again until I came up with a way to do them different.

And also there's so many more reasons then less prep and welding. I hand finish the runners. Less chance of cracking. Zero chance of misaligned elbows/runners. Its incredibly hard to hold these such tight tolerances but I've got it pretty dialed. The collector in itself has to be dead on every time! took me a little over a month to design a fixture that can replicate accurately within tolerance every time. there's actually way more prep involved. Yeah I could just wire wheel the runner as done traditionally. But i wasn't happy with that look. Never have been.

Didn't take the accuracy of the bends and collectors into it proper fixture fitment. yeah that does make it a little more difficult then I first figured. Good thing I don't have money for a cnc bender and I like the current trend I guess, lol.


Mike

Lol wel im not looking at it as far as a trend. Im looking at it from a performance stand point being more beneficial performance wise. More reliable consumer wise. And cleaner looking before and after its ran. I've never looked at fabrication as a trend. I'd like to think people fabricate parts to perform, not because it's what everyone else is doing. Of course that's just me.

looks really good man . (megustaface)

thank you very much!

I design and build everything to the best of my ability with performance in mind also, I just like the look of the welds on the manifolds........ I know u know what I mean.



Mike

absolutely. Lol I've seen you're work. Your port work is god dam glorious! I never figured you as a trend follower. I still like the look of welds. Im a dam welder. Haha I weld 12+ hours a day. i still build manifolds with welds.

Very sexy and clean. I saw in another post you might make in N/A, would you go with this same style.

absolutely. I recently got a tube expander that im dieing to use. I wanna do a n/a header to go along with my turbo manifolds. The tube expander will allow me to build a slip fit collector with spring bolts. I need a customer is all.

If only my ITR was together i would be all over that.

what's the eta? That would be a great n/a platform for testing.

Broskiballer has a stock itr in an ek and he is looking for a good header. Just sayin

Well as of right now I would say 6 to 8. But that would be car and all.. engine, i can try to have done next month just wouldnt have anything to put it in..


Or this.

Cray if this person has some money to drop im willing to rock m roll. I hate to be the guy that charges but let's be realistic. Shit cost money. Five star. A motor on a stand would be fine. I need someone that can get numbers for me. I come off like a dick but im probly the nicest guy you'll meet. Gotta weed out the non hackers. Lol

Umm
His name has baller in it. Duh.