It's funny how you went from saying they don't crack or its a fake to its moronic he didn't send it back. And nobody said it was cracked over and over. It cracked once in numerous spots. He welded it and sold the car. I'm just glad my sidewinder hasn't cracked but probably cause I spent a few hundred more and bought a better product

 

Maybe you should brush up on your reading and comprehension. I said that they are not prone to cracking, not that it would never ever crack. The reason fake was suggested was because the OP bought a fake pfab manifold, actually it's not even a copy of a manifold Pang offers. It's just some lie the seller said to make the buyer think he was getting a quality product for cheap.

If he was selling the car why would he pay for a welder to fix the manifold when he could have had an RMA from pfab? Your story has a lot of holes in it, and your credibility is pretty much zero. Don't come on here and bash perfectly good product with hundreds of satisfied customers. Your buddy had an isolated incident and handled it in a stupid way. Full race and Full Blown have had manifolds crack too, bet that makes them shit too by your logic.


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Hey Tim,
Took your advice and am selling it all except the AEM v2 and the 3map sensor.

I'm in the process of buying that Vortech V2 kit from anarchy187. This was actually another member's old SC kit(Sung).

So, new digs will be AP1 bone stock with a Vortech V2 kit with 928 upgrade, ID1000's(recent purchase), walbro pump, and the AEM.

Thanks all, I'll be trying to document this install with pics!

 

point was a full race, afi etc will not crack like this. its a pita to keep pulling shit off your car to send back and forth. the manifold cracked, period and it was a pfab. if the company was as good as you claim then the welds should have been penetrated properly. also when cars are built to race in classes every weekend people do not have time to wait for stuff to go back and forth. so lets agree pfab is a decent manifold if you dont want to spend 1200-1500 and the car can sit for awhile every time it breaks. that works
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Anything can happen to any product. I've seen AMS and Buschar manifolds crack on Evo's, Full Race mani's crack on STI's, seen cast mani's crack on numerous cars. Here is a thread for a cracked AFI manifold on here. Does that make all these companies bad or their products junk, no, nothing is impossible.

https://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/986...turbo-install/

 

personally i would not sell the turbo stuff and go S/C majority of s/c'd s2k end up going turbo cause they arent happy with the s/c. ive rode in many and was far from impressed, imo turbo is so much more efficient as long as you size it correctly
T3 turbo is plenty good, i myself am going with a Holset Hx35 as its twin scroll, they can take all sorts of abuse and make good power, ill be using the same manifold you have here, if it cracks ill re weld it no big deal to me, ive seen plenty of high name brand manifolds cracks, it happens.

 

Thanks Timmay.
By your account I have all the turbo parts minus a reputable turbo right now. However, I'm def going SC for now and going to see where that brings me. If I hate it, which I dont think I will, then I'll sell it and get into a turbo setup.

I want to iterate how important this board is to FI noobs like me. Thanks to everyone who contributes their vast knowledge and time to these posts. They help tremendously.

 

Seriously wasting your money even before you've started. Stick with turbo.


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hate to break it to you kids... all manifolds made out of piping WILL eventually crack.

 

i about made that mistake, untill i rode in/drove a few s/c setups


exactly!!