Thread: Turbo Manifold Sneak Peak! READY TO PRODUCE!

Which is what we are actually going to do....... give us a bit longer..... finished product hopefully by the end of this week!

Sick As Hell Good Clean As Hell Work A+ Awsome Turbo Right There.

Nice Nice Nice.... $500-$600 Range seems like a good price. GL with everything!

Is that a civic radiator?

any plans for a/c?

Are you gonna use an electric water pump? If not i could see your engine temps getting very hot on the street or on the track, especially once you put a large 3.5-4" thick front mount in front of that civic radiator.

Very nice set up! I am also interested in a fwd manifold that would clear the stock radiator, i would want to stay with an internal wastegate though.

Later,jon

wow im green with envy. your bay is beyond sexy. first smoothed bay in a b13 let alone a nx i have ever seen. i have a very clean bay my self, nothing near what yours is though, so i can admire your hard work. will the bay be tucked ??

good luck with that set up ! although i dont agree with the small rad, nx's are none to get hot, i hope that lil rad suffices.

stratton.

I know NX's are known to get hot.....but it will have a very high cfm fan on it......Stock water pump. There will quite a bit of air flow in the bay.
But also the Turbo and mani are not directly pounding the radiator with heat cause the radiator is not directly in front of it......I will also have a vented hood for some more airflow. I think it should be good. Also Im runnin E85, which is cold cold cold!!!!!!! You would be crazy surprised at the cooling effects of E85. Also I know enough EVO's that have run half size rad's with no issues.....I think there is somewhat of a misconception that cause its smaller I will now have major issues with heat, but I think it will be perfectly fine.
My AEM will control when the fan comes on and all is well
Thanks for the compliments Stratton, always nice coming from you who has such a clean NX!

It will also have a full tuck.....what you see in the pics is basically what it will look like even when the wiring is in.....minus the piping.......stay tuned!!!!

"The basic idea behind keeping each exhaust pulse separate to the collector is to control and minimize the turbulence created when the exhaust pulses merge. Uncontrolled turbulence equals lost energy, as the exhaust gas pulses lose their direction and cannot deliver their ful punch to the turbine. With a design that creates turbulence in side the manifold, energy is wasted, creatingheat instead of spinning the turbine."



i agree with this statement fully.. but is that a reference to cast iron design only? or like the manifold we have here which is a highly improved design then the stock cast. i see where your arguing but like a protech manifold.. isnt correct either... the turbo is closer to two runners an the others are further away... so that manifold too would have somewhat of turbulence. see what im saying.. most turbo manis have unequal lengths so most would have turbulance... i like the manifold but i like having things below the valve cover. thats just me.. but yea im agreeing with what your syaing about the turbulence but i agree with out the door on the floor policy too. only leaks would cause unbeneficial turbulence.

Im questioning how technical this actually needs to be for the needs of a forum like this......I know 99% of this community is do it yourselfers that daily drive their nissans, they are very few precision engineered race cars on here that need to maximize with the utmost efficiency because it could mean you lose or win. There needs to be an attitude and production of excellence, but who freaking cares about this turbulence and this minuscule amount of energy being lost. Idea......turn up the boost a 1/2 lb, there problem solved. Secondly there are not that many people on here who want to pay that high dollar amount for rediculous r&r on these manifolds.........now if we all drove F-1 cars where 1-5hp would make the difference in our paychecks, than this is valid. But since we don't, and it does not matter than I don't care.

My opinions......which Im not saying anything bad about anybody or there arguments, cause there is some good tech stuff on here for those that don't the physics of how these manis, Exhaust gases work and such.

But the mani shown is full EQL and looks SWEET!!!!