Well Andrew, that's one way to prevent the EWG from falling off the first time you take it on track!

Nice job.

 

Andrew, any chance you could show us what the downpipe looks like? On the bench is cool but in situ would be even better.

Specifically, I'm curious as to how much clearance there is around the brake and heater hoses, and the radius on the downpipe.

Also, those pics are glorious. I saw them before on my phone and thought they were renders, not pics of actual items. In SLA they look otherworldly.

 

Its ok I'm a sensitive Miata owner who loves forced induction and being touched by men so I tend to get bullied in the forums

 

See? You fit right in.

 

Nothing close enough to production, so any pics of the one DP that does exist would just confuse people. It will be 3" from the turbo back, with 3" CLR bends. I would have preferred 4.5" but it's just not doable with A/C and P/S in the engine bay too. If the stars align, it will be CNC compound mandrel bent. It will also play nice with both stock exhausts and full 3" units alike.

Thank you sir. I think it's way beyond what people have come to expect from cast-manifold setups.

 

I expect a 1.6 cast-manifold.

 

Any consideration of an EGT sensor in the collector? I am perhaps one of the last people that still use an EGT gauge, so in either way. However I prefer to hang on to that relic...

 

Not an integrated one, no. It adds cost to every manifold for a feature that, in reality, few will actually use. The manifold will be thick enough to drill/tap for an EGT bung anywhere you like.

 

Thank you for the explanation. In reality, few will definitely use as these are relics of past tuning practices.

 

^ Don't feel like too much of a dinosaur, I'm adding one myself. More information is more better! But drilling/tapping one is pretty trivial as long as the manifold has the thickness not to crack which I'll trust Sav on that one.

 

It'd be nice if there was a convenient flat part that was easy to drill, vs trying to do it on a surface that's curved in two dimensions, but...

--Ian

 

I drilled my turbine housing for an EGT sensor.

 

Not yet sure how this manifold will differ in performance compared to the one i am using, but i will agree that the EFR is quite difficult to keep within the stock rod limits. My 6258 destroyed my old tired stock 2000 block on the low pressure actuator can with 1mm of preload. I will admit that my engine had been thoroughly abused for the previous 65K miles with a ShanghiT28 at ~220whp. I am sure it was quite ready to blow without the extra headroom of the EFR and someone with a healthy stock block will likely see better results.

With that said, it looks like his turbo position is further forward than mine. I am sure this is allowing TSE to have a straighter downpipe configuration. I am curious to see if this will provide a more controllable boost level through the RPM range.

Props to Andrew for developing such a high quality piece of hardware at such an affordable cost for our cars. I am loving the motor he built for me and i am sure these turbo kits will perform spectacularly for us.

 

Glad I waited and didn't buy the Shanghai setup!

 

Huuuh? I thought touching ***** WAS the topic... am I in the wrong forum?

Keith

 

This is the touching ***** section. I'm sure an actual vendor's section formal announcement thread will pop up once the **** touching concludes with a big release. This simply began as a speculation thread. There will be much tighter controls on BS in the formal thread, I am certain.

This thread started in April of 2012 with a speculation of a summer of 2012 kit release.

I'm going to advise Swimming to maybe let someone else tune his car moving forward.

 

I subscribed to this thread back in 2013, I find it both sad and amusing that I still get notifications in my gmail about replies because I'm still really hoping there's going to be a post one day saying this kit is for sale, here's pictures of it, here's a video of it on the track, and here's X,Y,Z's impressions and here's the price and options.

le sigh

 

You do realize I posted pictures of the manifold three pages ago, right? And talked about pricing?

post 471, in which I talk lots about the progress, post pictures, and discuss pricing

 

and i just got lars mkturbo. i guess ill be in two first run group buys

 

On the plus side, my setup is less then just the turbo on the TSE setup. On the downside, the TSE setup should be better then mine in every other way. I see it as 2 completely different ends of the market. TSE if you want to track the car, MKTurbo if you are a starving artist.

I will most likely be jumping in on a TSE group buy for ***** and giggles. I need even more setups in my garage.