warped ebay manifold...blowing gasket again!!

[rams_pulsar]

As the title says my manifold is blowing again..doing my head in as even my mum said it sounds rough!!!lol must be bad haha...i put a new gasket on it (head to mani gasket) a few months ago and its got worse over time. I think than manifold is the problenm as its a stainless steel one thats not exactly had good reviews to say the least. The manifold its self is warped i think hence blowing all time as a cheap fix can anyone see a problem with putting two gaskets on it to compensate the warpedness (good english eh??)

any other advice would be appreciated

 

[rams_pulsar]

any ideas...would it work or be a waste of time, effort, money, skimmed knuckles etc

 

[noriek2003]

any ideas..

remove said piece of cr@p manifold, place in nearset bin, re-fit standard manifold with new gasket, problem solved :doh:

 

[red reading]

weigh the piece of junk in for scrap

 

[olliecast]

cut the flange off, then weld it to you roof so that it looks like a grenade launcher!

 

[dannogti-r]

i bought one from ebay an it was badly warped, prob bout 5mm of difference in places. they ended up sendin a new one after a load of fuss. the new one's fine.

 

[steve963]

cut the flange off, then weld it to you roof so that it looks like a grenade launcher!

go the whole hog and arm it aswell lol

 

[Shaun]

Take it to your nearest engine builders and they should skim it for you for around £20

 

[rams_pulsar]

if i was to re fit the standard one you reckon there will be a loss in performance as i'd rather have it blowing slightly cos it really is only slight...????

 

[olliecast]

if i was to re fit the standard one you reckon there will be a loss in performance as i'd rather have it blowing slightly cos it really is only slight...????

i think people have had them braced and skimmed flat in the past mate. any way you could measure how out of flat it is, i.e. get a feeler under the raised parts on a flat surface

 

[pulsarboby]

if i was to re fit the standard one you reckon there will be a loss in performance as i'd rather have it blowing slightly cos it really is only slight...????

you will deffo lose power if its blowing! any exhaust leak BEFORE the turbo will significantly cause loss of power.
dont waste your money, chuck it away and put the standard manifold back on;-)

 

[rams_pulsar]

yea i know what your saying but when i fixed it first time round it stopped blowing and the performance is pretty much exactly same as it is now but compared with the standard manifold i think it'd lose power so might be worth fixing as its not TOO bad lol.

 

[fubar andy]

Spend some time on the standard manifold, polish and smooth the insides out as best you can. It will help with flow and last longer than the e-gay manifolds :thumb:

The standard manifold should support 400bhp anyway