El-Cheapo manifold
 

I got (2) 1.8 stock exhaust manifolds on the way. Gonna try to make a super low-budget decent-flowing turbo manifold with my mad flux core skillz. I loathe internal gates so I'm planning on running an external on my setup (when the time comes).

Wish I had a stock head or whole motor for fabbing purposes :(

Has anybody tried this yet?

I'm shure they have but most dont. For the same price or a little more as thoes two manifolds you just bought, you could have gotten something like this: http://www.jgstools.com/turbo/index2.html