lookin for turbo manifold!

[bobafett]

shit your right... ill see if i can find someone to make them for us lol

[Justin86]

I belive Caleb knows someone with a fab shop in Salem that would make them if someone had the money to put down on one. I would make it but I can only weld mild steel until I can afford another welder.

[3gmodifier]

hey thanks man. i know that it is a little pricey but you get what you pay for and i am willing to spend the money for a good quality maniflod.

[damckinney]

I was wondering if anyone has used one of Tuner Toys log manifolds or if they know anyone that has purchased one of their log manifolds. I contacted them in regards to a manifold for the A20 and they informed me that they currently don't make a setup for the A20, but they have them for the B & D series engines. I got this reply from their sales associate by the name of Craig.

"We do not currently offer any manifolds for the A20 engine series. However,
if you can get five people into a group purchase, we will create a log
manifold kit for your application. Similar to our D and B series manifold
kits on our website, the A series manifold kit would have all the pieces
needed to assemble your own log manifold for the A series engines.

Cost per kit would be $179 each, and would contain the cylinder head flange,
T3 turbo flange, radius adapter, and the weld ells and tee fittings. We
will only do those for an order quantity of five units, special order,
prepaid, no refunds. It must be this way due to the initial cost of custom
making the head flanges.

Talk to your other A20 owners, and see what you can do.

Craig @ Tuner Toys"

If anyone is interested in the manifold then please let me know...or if anyone has any knowledge of this companies product please share your experience with us.


Their website is: www.tunertoys.com

[bobafett]

thats a pretty good deal... it would need to be 'built' still though it sounds like... but thats a good price, and it would be simple to take to an exhaust shop to get it put together...

im quite interested...

[b8er]

forgive me if im wrong but i seem to remeber awhile back somebody posting a link to a website that showed a ramhorn mani for the a20, there was a bit of contraversy(spelling?) about it, and im not sure what happened with it, il try searching, anybody else know what im talking about?

[military mase]

Are you talking about the full-race syle mani...The problem with that one just by looking at it was the problem of accsess to the sparkplugs & wires.

[smufguy]

the madusa/ramhorn/snake manifolds, as they are often called, were made by a guy in canada for an equivalent price of $300 US. the problem with those are that they are full race headers are mentioned. they produce a lot of head and are good with a GT35r and larger turbos. T460 and up would better suite it. a Small equal length manifold or a design similar to a DSM/evo manifold would be great for normal daily driving.

[bobafett]

i posted that link. a short time after posting it, the website was unreachable. i havent checked lately to see if it was back up. but they wanted 750 for the manifold.

[military mase]

you'll come out better getting someone else to make it or make one yourself.

[gfrg88]

sweet!! id like to get one of those kits too, but this will still need to be welded together right?? this is a good if we can get enough people on here to buy this, maybe we can even try and get them all welded if theyre not already

[B16KILLA]

I guess i'll have to get one too.

[Justin86]

well 3000 isn't bad for a quality kit with basic turbo, esp with a low production custom kit.

[bobafett]

yeah thats true. the lame-o greddy kits cost about that much.

[damckinney]

The guys that are interested in the manifold at Tuner Toys, just send them a email and just mention that you are inquiring about the projected log manifold for the A20. I will send my POC at Tuner Toys an email in regards to the ppl that are interested in the manifold. As the posted stated all they need is at least 5 people to go in on the group purchase before they will commit to building the kit.

[Accordtheory]

If I remember correctly, the 88 or 89 lxi/sei has a tri-y style factory manifold, has anyone investigated the possibility of using that manifold to make a top mount setup using a simple 2 tube extension with a collector up in front about halfway between the engine and tranny? If not, you guys need to look into this. This has some really nice advantages, cost, heat shield compatibility, factory warpage/cracking resistance, etc, and high hp potential. I'm strongly considering doing this with my b series, but my stupid crossmember is in the way..

[buds302]

wow!!! who drug this thread up???! man ayear and a half old! hey whatever. atleast someone still has the idea. Good luck to ya

[Swap_File]

I know that right now you can buy a A20 exhaust flange with turbo flange and downpipe flange for $80 shipped at BMC Racing, and then from McMaster get 2 90 degree 1.5 inch angles and 2 1.5 inch Ts (sch 40) for about $70 (pipe could probably be found cheaper locally).

This ends up being close to the price estimated above from Tuner Toys.

Hopefully a kit from Tuner Toys would be pre-tested, and would have less “surprises” during assembly compared to doing it from scratch. I have emailed Tuner Toys, but I have not yet heard back. I also put a post up on preludepower that quoted damckinney's first post. Some people there might be interested too (Prelude BT = Accord A20).

[A20A1]

http://www.streetdynamics.com/b/turbomani.htm
Anyone ever see the port spacing difference between the F22 and the A20?
Look at the pics in the page... pretty nice log style, hack the F22 flange off... reshape the tubes to be oval in the vertical, grind the tubes flush to account for the distortion... weld on the A20 flange.

[bobafett]

wow, i never noticed that! pretty cool... someone could buy an SSA dsm manifold and put a20 flange on there! sounds like a project!

[A20A1]

Which DSM? I've seen other mitsubishis I think with simmilar spacing but the manifolds shown here all have equal spacing.

http://www.ssautochrome.com/level.itml/icOid/1359

hrm maybe

http://www.dnperformance.com/eclipse.html

I know other F series had equal spacing... maybe they ment those fit the DSM manifold.

[bobafett]

oh... yeah 4g accord guys use dsm manifolds and drill new holes and port match. i assumed that this would mean they were not equal spaced since the f22 in the picture has spacing closer to ours....

oh well...

[Accordtheory]

at least look into what i wrote earlier..sometimes the easiest thing just makes the most sense..

p.s. FUCK ssautocrap. read up on h-t about those assholes