hughdogz Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Before: After: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e_racer1999 Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 pretty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Challenger Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Thats pretty ugly. Id suggest mailing it to me so I can fix it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughdogz Posted December 24, 2007 Author Share Posted December 24, 2007 Hey thanks e_racer! I hope it was worth all the effort and it won't cause me headaches down the road. I have seven fittings tapped on the underside so I hope the hoses can take the heat! I swear this is one of the last times I choose form over function, lol! I was able to gasket match to the Weber TB (it took about 1/8" around) and I smoothed out the bumps in the opening (from the air regulator bypass bosses). Also BRAAP recommended that I radius the #1 intake runner. And it is so much easier to access the exhaust manifold bolts now! Mopar69, if you still want the ugly stock turbo manifold I'll deliver it in person for one meelioon dollars! (in fact, I'd give you both for that much ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Challenger Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Yeah Ill get back to you on the 1 meelion dollars. How did you get rid of the webbing? Or is it a different manifold you smoothed out? Looks real good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughdogz Posted December 24, 2007 Author Share Posted December 24, 2007 Hey, I appreciate that Mopar. Actually, it's a totally different one...from a 1975 N42. We like this one since it has minimal bosses and no EGR. It has been a Saga...I have the details on my project page. The stock turbo would have been even more work to modify since it has so many fittings not to mention the webbing you mentioned. Basically sand down the cast surface, cut off the bosses, grind them down. Then I filled in all the leftover holes with a MIG welder I converted to a ghetto spool gun. Grind, polish, lather, rinse, repeat until it looks like it does today. Also, I finally eliminated the stock turbo bypass valve completely. Before I had my recirculating HKS BOV working without disabling the stock one (mainly because I didn't know how to disable it without a lot of work). If it ever stops raining, I'll be able to test how it really turned out. Oh well...on to the next project...Wolf3D! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughdogz Posted December 24, 2007 Author Share Posted December 24, 2007 [Edit: Moved more pics over to my project page] http://forums.hybridz.org/showpost.php?p=835735&postcount=11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJLamberson Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 that is a work of art... were did you get the anti sway bar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughdogz Posted December 24, 2007 Author Share Posted December 24, 2007 that is a work of art... were did you get the anti sway bar? Aw shucks you guys are going to make me cry! The strut tower brace? I got them at the MSA show two years ago (I saved on shipping that way!) You can still get them: http://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/CTGY/PSDC04 I got a pretty good deal on Suspension Techniques sway bars from shox.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerryb Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Nice!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slownrusty Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 I was worried with putting my fittings and runing hoses underneath so close to the extreme heat of the Turbo so I ended up drilling and tapping the top and side sections, I hope you are OK down the road... Looks great though. Here is mine: Yasin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughdogz Posted December 24, 2007 Author Share Posted December 24, 2007 Damn Yasin! Do you want to trade manifolds?! (j/k...I know it's your "baby"...I think yours is freaking awesome Man! ) I figure if the silicone hoses collapse under vacuum after a spirited run I'll go with steel braided A/N. If that doesn't help I'll see what happens after I install a ceramic coated turbine, downpipe and exhaust manifold. If that doesn't work, I'll get a tubine wrap like Timz. If I still have the problem I guess I'm going to have to retap the holes or go to a vacuum distribution block. I really wanted to design and build a new one from scratch like you and the other advanced members have done (or are doing). I just need more skill, knowledge, and $$$. Once I get the rest of the systems upgraded I'll come full circle and work on a new manifold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proxlamus© Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 looks great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 fast z Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 Here was mine from a few years ago on the NA car. Dont have any pics of before, but we all know what a stock intake was like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ihatejoefitz Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 Before: After: Not to much time or money in this manifold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slownrusty Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 Damn Yasin! Do you want to trade manifolds?! (j/k...I know it's your "baby"...I think yours is freaking awesome Man! ) I figure if the silicone hoses collapse under vacuum after a spirited run I'll go with steel braided A/N. If that doesn't help I'll see what happens after I install a ceramic coated turbine, downpipe and exhaust manifold. If that doesn't work, I'll get a tubine wrap like Timz. If I still have the problem I guess I'm going to have to retap the holes or go to a vacuum distribution block. I really wanted to design and build a new one from scratch like you and the other advanced members have done (or are doing). I just need more skill, knowledge, and $$$. Once I get the rest of the systems upgraded I'll come full circle and work on a new manifold. Hugh - ManyThanks! I didn't mean to hijack your thread. Drop me a line when you start running your manifold and putting some runs on it. My very best - Yasin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughdogz Posted December 25, 2007 Author Share Posted December 25, 2007 Hugh - ManyThanks! I didn't mean to hijack your thread. Drop me a line when you start running your manifold and putting some runs on it. My very best - Yasin Right on! It started up just fine yesterday. I had to adjust the idle screw two turns higher and lower my fuel pressure a tiny bit. I'll let you know how it goes. No worries on a threadjack(?) I love seeing other before / after pics too. Especially the fully-custom stuff!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Challenger Posted December 25, 2007 Share Posted December 25, 2007 Hey Yasin did you have a thread where you showed how your manifold was made? Looked through some old threads and it looks like JaimyT made it? I really like that style. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wigenOut-S30 Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 Hugh, That looks awesome man.. Did you polish it? or is that like a Jet hot coating? Looks great man!!! And Yasin, Fantastic manifold man.. I bet that delivers a good bit more then the stocker for sure!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughdogz Posted December 26, 2007 Author Share Posted December 26, 2007 Hugh, That looks awesome man.. Did you polish it? or is that like a Jet hot coating? Looks great man!!! Thanks for the props Gabe! Yeah, quite a bit of polishing went into it (not to mention sanding and wet-sanding!) I was considering a cerma-chrome coating when I first embarked on this endeavor but I'm not so sure now. You can see blemishes where the filler aluminum is shinier than the stock alloy. Also, there is slight pitting in some of the welds from the trapped gasses because my welding skills aren't where they should be. I thought a coating would hide these and cut down on the heat transfer a little bit. I'm not sure you can polish the coating to a shine, but then again with a coating it will be one less thing to polish...hmm... I don't know why I'm still so hung up on bling...Hybridz is slowly curing me of that ailment! Eventually I'll be making a custom one so I think my effort and $$ will be better spent somewhere else for now. I still don't get it why some are saying that webbing and heat shields are so important. What are we worried about heating up? The manifold itself so it becomes an "interheater"? ...I can sort of see this as a problem at idle with stagnant air heating up. Heating the fuel in the rail? ...this might be a problem since I dead-headed my feed line. I know the vacuum hoses are a given problem where I have mine now. It seems to me that a webbed manifold (without a heat shield) would add to the heat problem since there is more area for the radiant heat energy to transfer to, and it would trap more heat from the natural convection after the engine is turned off (or at idle). I must be missing something obvious. It would be great to design an intake manifold with a "two-chamber" charge box like some others are already doing. Not sure why it is so much better than a single chamber (with volume ~1.5x the engine displacement). Something about converting the dynamic pressure to static pressure more efficiently?? Anyhoo, I want to thank everyone for their contributions to my post! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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