I was quoted $450 for a turbo manifold like the one brad made for his 92. And also a 3 inch downpipe. I think that is an awsome price and I am going to get one as soon as I buy a turbo. After they make mine if anybody is interested I'll ask them if they can make a couple more. I want mine to be located low like SX7R's. So I might have to remove the right radiator fan.

 

good price! just make sure there is enough ground clearance, after seeing mike's, im glad that i have the extracouple of inches

 

The set up above, or like Neal's takes car of reducing the length of piping to the turbo and avoids the feed pipe hanging low, but then if you still want to connect the down pipe to a cat-back you still have to run the piping under the tranny. So I don't see how ground clearance will be any different. My reverse Y-pipe is not the lowest part of the piping, it is my down pipe going back under the tranny to align with cat back location.

 

Thats a pretty good price. They are making it out of mild steel correct? Ground clearance should not be a problem, my y-pipe hugs the starter, and is above the crossmember I believe. My downpipe has to hang around an inch below the crossmember, but I think I could have prevented that by making the y ride up closer to the transmission.

 

I don't see a turbo manifold? Just a pic of the y-pipe feeder section. If it's $450 just for that, it better be some nicely TIG welded 321SS stuff.
If you want more ground clearance from the piping, you should use oval tubing. A 3" oval down pipe is only 2.125" in height.

 

Oval piping is way more expensive, from what I hear...

 

Two into one is a type of manifold, just as three into one or four into one are.

 

Why the severe angle at the rear flange?

 

That was as close as I could get with the radius of my bend. I suppose I could have cut the flange a little closer though.

 

we have a winner

and the oval piping is not that expensive to buy.

 

not its the whole manifold, 3 inch downpipe and wastegate dump pipe.

the manifold is going to look like this but the part after the collector will not be as tall.



You have to run the inch downpipe under the transmission? Why can't you run it like Brad. He ran it in the stock location.




I want it low like this.



If it is mild steel which probabaly is. There is a hot jet coating place right around the corner. That will keep the under hood temps way down.

 

There is no reason to run it low unless you have some need to keep the battery tray or etc...

Running it low will dictate the use of a scavenging pump as the turbo oil drain will no longer be able to gravity feed to the oil pan

 

if youre getting jett hot, then disassmble the exhaust housing and get that coated too.

 

What place are you getting it done at? Is it SGP?

 

SGP would charge at least $1000. They are not he friendlyest people either. And I don't trust their new dyno. Their readings are really high. They have a so so reputation in Houston. Its a place called speed fetish, its a local performance shop, they do a lot of work on SRT-4's.

 

Yeah I was going to do that too.

 

SX7R I think is not running one but I will run one. And I want it low because I want to keep my battery in the engine bay. I really dont want to run a battery in the trunk area.

Only thing I am afriad of is all the rain we get in Houston. I will probably have to run an HKS pancake filter or something like that in the space. It might suck up a lot of water.

 

I never experience there unfriendliness, they were very cool to me. I think the reason way their #'s are so high is cause it is a Dynopack. But they do great tuning, and the 350z guys have not said anything bad about their work.

Another reason way i ask is cause there helping me with my turbo setup and my car should be in their shop by the second of April.

 

Ask some 300zx guys about SGP. They are making lots of money off of 350z and G35 people, so they are being very friendly. Like I said they have a good reputation but its not great.

I know the dynopack reads higher but some of their numbers are way off.

 

There is no stock location for exhaust comming from in front of the motor....if your refering to the where the y-pipe runs, that will be taken up already. the down pipe will have to be ran under the tranny and will hand below the cross member. Oval piping and having the exhaust on the passanger side will help with the ground clearance, but you can't get around going under the tranny with the down pipe

 

did you see the picture I posted? He has the downpipe where the y-pipe runs. You can see the crossmember thing that is under the engine to the left.

 

Yes, and the down pipe hangs below it.

 

Well, actually, I could have brought the y-pipe closer to the tranny and the downpipe would have fit in the stock location. It would be tight yes, but it could have been done.

 

okay I see what your saying now, I will tell them so it will fit in he stock location.

 

and he's running an internal wastegate

 

i going to have my wastegate like SX7R though. Of to the side and open to the atmosphere.

 

Just pointing out his piping does not have an external wastgate

 

Are you referring to me? I have an external wastegate if so

 

If the below pipe is yours, you did not have an external wastegate at the time of this pic.. you have one now.. but not in the below pic.. that's the one I was referring to

 

Yeah, I took that pic before I welded in the wastegate pipe. Sorry if that has caused any confusion.

 

You SOB, how could you

 

Not at all. I just did not read all your posts