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People who ordered direct from Skunk's employee through facebook PMs or Instagram have received theirs.
Those that ordered through Skunk's wholesale distributor, like us and SBGarage, seem to be getting shafted.
I ordered mine last month on Sept, 19th from SBGarage... Still haven't received anything yet. I'm from MA though so it could be in the mail somewhere.
Yea I ordered mine from the Skunk2 website, but I talked to them first by email to confirm that they had some in stock. They sent it out the same day. They even sent me the tracking number immediately.
Runner #1 had a piece of casting sticking up about 1/4" so I removed it and smoothed it out. Runner #2 & #3 had ones that stuck out about 1/8". Runner 4 was indented about 1/16".
Since I already did some work on fixing 3 casting errors I went ahead and smoothed out the parting line flash in the runners and removed the minor defects from the Bellmouths.
Also I enlarged and re tapped the hole on the back of the plenum to 3/8 NPT. This will allow the GM ait to be used.
I'm waiting for results too, I wish my car was running already so I could at least be a part of the testing fun. It's pretty surprising to me that people have had their hands on these manifolds for 4+ weeks and there hasn't been a single Squaretop vs Skunk back-to-back test yet.
I think the argument being made is that Skunk should have done this already before the release of the product. It really shouldn't be up to the consumers to see if their products work.
I think the argument being made is that Skunk should have done this already before the release of the product. It really shouldn't be up to the consumers to see if their products work.
Or maybe they did, and there were no gains, or hardly any, so they have nothing to brag about, and still decided to release the manifolds, as people often think OEM = Junk and aftermarket shiny = cool and must be better.
I think the argument being made is that Skunk should have done this already before the release of the product. It really shouldn't be up to the consumers to see if their products work.
That is what I think.
Originally Posted by borka
Or maybe they did, and there were no gains, or hardly any, so they have nothing to brag about, and still decided to release the manifolds, as people often think OEM = Junk and aftermarket shiny = cool and must be better.
Or in my case I suspected that there would be more room around the manifold. I haven't put mine on the car yet but I suspect it will do the same as the squaretop and will only do better if I had the engine set up to go above 7500rpm. Also with the plenum being able to rotate I will be able to put a BP4W in a Festiva.
Last edited by ky-sephia; Oct 23, 2017 at 09:33 PM.
The bell mouths on the intake section are a lot different to my Honda Skunk2 Street. It looks like the castings are not as nice probably due to the curved runners requiring a more complex mold.
Sorry, didn't mean to ruin everyone's day by posting such useless information.
Your information wasnt useless at all, at least you take the time to make a video. The people that complain are all butthurt little pansies, keyboard warriors if you will.
Look nice. But the average BP will not be doing over 7,500 rpm.
You are right that the casting has problems in the BP version. I fixed a few of them.
Thank you for showing the difference.
Originally Posted by Madjak
The bell mouths on the intake section are a lot different to my Honda Skunk2 Street. It looks like the castings are not as nice probably due to the curved runners requiring a more complex mold.
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