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Don't know.
the one-piece I had on for a year did not leak.
also, most turbo kits come with a one-piece, and don't seem to leak.
J
I was looking at it from a design point of view only, not saying that one-piece manifolds were defective, or prone to problems or anything like that.
This is what i was thinking: since the exhaust manifold heats up a lot, and the cast iron expands, it seems better to reduce stress build up over the piece, and this a a 2-piece casting is a good way to do that - moreso than a one piece. Since a two-piece likely cost money to develop, and would involve two molds not one, and thus be more costly to produce, then it is likely, to my way of thinking, that they did so as a design improvement not as a cost-cutting measure. Toyota may also have been seeing a certain unacceptable percentage of failures in the one piece manifolds, over the 5 years or so they were used, to speculate a bit, that may have prompted the move to the more costly 2-piece.