Dam Women!! *read diy mani related*
#21
I've been told the ETD isn't that great a manifold anyway no matter how good it looks. As well as that WG being on a single runner instead of in the collector like it should be. Some people like it but no matter how pretty it is you could spend your money elsewhere.
GET THE TURBO ON THE CAR ALREADY. Once you do get it on there and start driving it like you should be you won't give a damn what your manifold looks like but you will know you're car is way the hell faster than it was and you don't want anymore downtime. If you already have your manifold and a collasal 3" downpipe ready to go on then what the hell are you waiting on. Go burn off your first set of tires and get some stickier rubber so you don't kill yourself.
GET THE TURBO ON THE CAR ALREADY. Once you do get it on there and start driving it like you should be you won't give a damn what your manifold looks like but you will know you're car is way the hell faster than it was and you don't want anymore downtime. If you already have your manifold and a collasal 3" downpipe ready to go on then what the hell are you waiting on. Go burn off your first set of tires and get some stickier rubber so you don't kill yourself.
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Alrite fine you guys win, I knew the WG placement wasn't the best either, gonna go press in the miata bushings today and prolly install diff,axles,ppf and wheels tom. Keep ya updated,
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The wastegate location wasn't a problem regarding boost creep for me, but rather the bigger issue became the stress on the piping from the way the joint is constructed, my cheaper SS Ghettochrome manifold is a rip off of that manifold and it failed right there, and not through the weld, which tells me that the nature of the design may be problematic.
I think MX592's issues were more related to the wastegate than the location. I could make rock steady boost at 10 PSI. No creep.
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Thanks for the help guys, as for the tranny, well my driving habits are most likely pretty hard, I did devour 2 1.6 diffs in no time, so I'm guessing I might drive alittle aggressively. And 5speeds may b cheap but up here I can't see it being easy to get one, or them being cheap for that matter lol. I'll start looking into the 6speed just for fun.
-Dean
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