It wont, its regular exhaust bandage with a crazy look.

 

Where did yo ufind the engine flange? What kind of tubing is that?

 

The engine flange was supplied from Inlinepro last year when I bought their kit. I had the wish to build my own mani over time as the ILP cast didn't appeal to me that much, but last year didn't offer me time enough to pull it through.

So Chris put a flange into the package aswell, which was very nice.
The tubing is regular HVAC piping. Inner diameter 43.x mm and outer diameter 48.x mm. I am using black material in the turbomanifold as it is more crack resistant and elastic. Also cheaper. The DP and exhaust is stainless. Dp is from ILP kit and the exhaust is as mentioned custom built by me.

 

Here is a small update on progress.

The complete exhaust side is done, except one O2 sensor input.


Turbo + surroundings from 2 angles.



And now to a question. What do you think of the below solution? The turbo outlet is basically 2", and I am using a 2" bend and then cone it up to 2,5".
Is it better to have a 2-2,5 inch silicone adaptor instead? And go with a 2,5" bend?

 

I would try and keep as much of the piping 2.5" as you can. make the bend 2.5" and get a 2-2.5" coupler.

 

I decided to go for the 2" bend as it saved me some space and a real life friend vouched for that solution. Here is some progress pictures.

Start of the chargepiping. It is almost done until the IC at this moment.


Fusebox moved slightly, made a bracket for it.


Also started a heat shield over the manifold. The heatpaint, bandage and also a heatshield should be sufficient isolation.

 

again, looks great. wish i could weld. Mild steel doesnt look as pretty but its super durable. get that manifold coated and it would look like butter!

 

I will sand blast it when I am done with everything and paint it with exhaust hightemp paint. Then I will wrap it with heat bandage and it wont matter whats below as it wont be seen under the paint and heatbandage. The durability and efficiency is what matters

 

this manifold build is freaking sick..... hope its a first time go.... it might be better to test the actual efficiency before you paint and wrap the whole manifold.... that way its not so much of a waste if you have to modify the mani at all.... love the build cant wait to se the numbers after its all said and done. what are you looking for out of all this anyway?

 

How do i test its efficiency before its done? Isn't the heat isolation improving efficiency?
Is there some sort of test I don't know about?

What I am looking for is basically a setup with E85 that don't have the limits my previous car had (injectors and mapsensor) and still reach same or more power on lower or the same boostlevel.