Thread: GTIR Turbo Manifolds

RWD manifold puts turbo way into radiator. To try to make it fit you have to cut off the flange and trim the manifold and agle the flange inwards to the block.

This brings up other issues but I will let you go ahead and do it.

There is a reason that these things are not done, maybe because it has been tried before and is a waste of time.

There's your answer Char.

Andreas is correct, at least with the manifold I have. The turbo flange is angled up from the front toward the engine. This angle allows the U12 and gtir clocked turbos to point in the correct upward direction. I think andreas is telling us the rwd turbo flange is parallel to the ground or at an angle the is incorrect for the fwd turbos I mentioned. I you don't know how to weld, the rwd manifold would be an unnecessary headache.
Char, if you need some pics of this angle, I'll snap some pics if you have not yet grasped my explaining.

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Since you don't a/c, and I'm assuming you or someone you know can weld...anything is possible. I'm also fabbing my own j-pipe from a rwd j-pipe. I'll post pics of that when I'm done.

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Whats the details on this set-up? What a/r, internal WG, etc....

Will it bolt up to the gtir stock manifold?

Thanks

you know that the new manifold xspower makes are nice and beefy, i bet we could set a group buy.

the pic of that RWD mani that was modded on a FWD only worked because the car had no A/C.. and the oil return line was where the A/C bolt goes. You know the RWD and FWD flange is flipped