exhaust manifold 'tinkering'

[superls]

hi all.

ive been doing a bit of tinkering with exhausts AGAIN, ill never learn lol

right when i bought my car it was fitted with the standard manifold

absolute pants.

however i had a plan, i had hidden away in the shed this

this was soon fitted and the secont un-necessary cat bypassed.

but still i longed for a proper breathing engine like i had in my k10 (r.i.p)

so i hatched another plan, i bought a fubar 1st cat ;-) but that still wasnt enough,

while sorting some stuff in the shed i stumbled across these

so i thought hummm.

then that was it i had a plan in my head, nothing was going to get in my way, and to make a propper job of it i made this

then is snowballed from there, (i think this is the only project ive done to date where ive half documented its progress, lol)

first there was 1

and then there were 2

and what follow 2, yep you got it 3

and finally 4

all tacked up

then i split it down and welded the pipes up

tidied the welds up with a flappy disk in the grinder and welded it back together.

i have no on the bench pics, but here are a few on the car pics

i think it certainly looks better than the stock. and it out performs it in every single way too.

thanks for reading

Scott

 

[frank]

excellent scott (Y) like the cube one but bigger eh

 

[solarice]

not a bad mini project

it sound any different?...you say it out performs, so i guess the increase is noticable. Thought it should be mind

 

[superls]

excellent scott (Y) like the cube one but bigger eh

thanks frank, is the cube one like this then? i forget the internal pipe measurement, but the pipe and fittings are 1 1/4 pipe, just checked and the internal measurement of the pipe is 35mm

not a bad mini project

it sound any different?...you say it out performs, so i guess the increase is noticable. Thought it should be mind

cheers, the sound is a little different, but the entire system is stock bar the decats, for now that is lol
yes by out performs i mean there are very noticable gains, accross the board, its goined more low down grunt then top end, but its a commuter car so thats what im after, i can upll into fast lane at 70mph in 5th and dump the throttle and it picks up really well, to the extent that the nose noticibly comes up.

 

[frank]

thanks frank, is the cube one like this then? .

similar scott, yeh, they,re quite small bore tho eh

 

[superls]

yea quite similar, and a really small bore, the way there shaped leads me to believe that there equal length too, and quite long.

where as mine are more direct, but the lengths arent that unequal on mine to be honest.

 

[mckenziecz]

Aw man, beautiful. You should mass produce these. SuperLS's Manifolds LTD.

 

[superls]

well you might be onto something there, the jigs there, i made notes of all the pipe lengths and elbow angles, i have templates of the flanges, if wouldnt be that difficult to reproduce.

i think its a supply and demand thing, if people demand then i might be tempted to supply, lol.

 

[mckenziecz]

one more think, i noticed that the lambda is in one off the pipes. doesn't that effect the readings?

 

[malcolmt]

well you might be onto something there, the jigs there, i made notes of all the pipe lengths and elbow angles, i have templates of the flanges, if wouldnt be that difficult to reproduce.

i think its a supply and demand thing, if people demand then i might be tempted to supply, lol.

Hi Superls

I think that given a price, people will bite your arm off for one of these.
Nice work

Malcolm

 

[r-reg-sr]

i would be in for one
1.r-reg-sr
any more takers to let superls know how much intrest their is and a price can be sorted

 

[mikey]

Good job mate!! (Y) Oh how i long for a shed with a mig/tig welder!

 

[K10 SHED]

Wow nice work (Y)

wish i could knock one up for my K10

 

[Eliot]

That looks amazing mate. Keep up the good work (Y)

 

[r-reg-sr]

one more think, i noticed that the lambda is in one off the pipes. doesn't that effect the readings?

thats a point it normally sits where all the gas merges ??

 

[YcMing]

thats a point it normally sits where all the gas merges ??

I think the lambda is normal on the downpipes, so it gets gases from a mixture of the cylidners. where one pipes it will only be from that single cylider.

Wouldn't really matter if your car is running right . And yes lovely mani you made there!!

ming

 

[frank]

the janspeed one is mounted where only 2 pipes merge, so it would only be relevant if injector # 3 was faulty eh

 

[COZ!!!!]

Top work. What do you think it would cost to get one of these made up?

 

[COZ!!!!]

bump for a price?

 

[r-reg-sr]

bump for a price?

might be a personal message job

 

[micka]

. how much for a manifold, very interested. where can you get a cube tubular one and did it make a large difference? is it better than janspeed

regards

Micka

 

[SYKO]

i'd be up for buying one and how much do you charge for lightning and balancing a flywheel?

 

[davey1991]

You make it look so easy i really would consider one of these, especially if you'd be making them cheaper than the Janspeed ones.

 

[superls]

you could always buy the one in the pics above, its for sale, pm me.

 

[will930]

why the sale?