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And there's an awful lot of choices out there when it comes to parts. When I decided to do this project I bought the turbonetics manifold, I happened to score it off Ebay for $375 to my door. I bought it in March 2012.
Using it required two things,
1) you have to grind out a passage way (someone correct me if I'm wrong here) for the EGR port.
2) its flat flange style will not allow you to use the OEM style gasket because of the rivets that come between ports on the gasket. My solution was to buy a sheet of FELPRO gasket material ($30?), I punched a few holes in the gasket to bolt it to the manifold while on the workbench. Once I had it secured to the manifold on the ends and in the middle I used a rotozip cutout tool and ran it around all of the ports and the other holes and then around the outside of the flange. When done, I had one completely burned up bit and a perfectly cut gasket. Cleaned up the edges a little and blew out the manifold and installed it. The turbonetics manifold does have a cut in the flange in the middle for expansion and I did cut the gasket to match.
I should note this as well, the oil drain is very tight because the turbo is mounted above the manifold. There is not a lot of space to come out and then avoid the flange of the turbo. I ended up using a metal drain pipe that actually came off a turbo for my old gen 1 talon. I had to cut the pipe at the flange to reorient the direction it came off, I welded it back to the flange and installed it.
The thing I like the most about this manifold is that it allowed me to use a 45 and a 90 degree silicone fitting and duct the intake from the stock air cleaner very cleanly into the turbo
Using it required two things,
1) you have to grind out a passage way (someone correct me if I'm wrong here) for the EGR port.
2) its flat flange style will not allow you to use the OEM style gasket because of the rivets that come between ports on the gasket. My solution was to buy a sheet of FELPRO gasket material ($30?), I punched a few holes in the gasket to bolt it to the manifold while on the workbench. Once I had it secured to the manifold on the ends and in the middle I used a rotozip cutout tool and ran it around all of the ports and the other holes and then around the outside of the flange. When done, I had one completely burned up bit and a perfectly cut gasket. Cleaned up the edges a little and blew out the manifold and installed it. The turbonetics manifold does have a cut in the flange in the middle for expansion and I did cut the gasket to match.
I should note this as well, the oil drain is very tight because the turbo is mounted above the manifold. There is not a lot of space to come out and then avoid the flange of the turbo. I ended up using a metal drain pipe that actually came off a turbo for my old gen 1 talon. I had to cut the pipe at the flange to reorient the direction it came off, I welded it back to the flange and installed it.
The thing I like the most about this manifold is that it allowed me to use a 45 and a 90 degree silicone fitting and duct the intake from the stock air cleaner very cleanly into the turbo
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