nice thing to happen 20 miles from home

[Aidan-G]

this happened last night out of the blue 20 miles from home,when i opened the bonnet today to strip it off,it melted a few wires also..the welding on it it pure muck to be honest

 

[Gtstu]

Wow what manifold is that?

 

[Aidan-G]

one of sachas td04 mani's..its happened a few people on here

 

[Phil]

ah not good

hope you get her sorted soon!

Phil

 

[addz]

Shit, thought they were quite strong the ones by him

 

[Aidan@EP-styling]

Ouch!

 

[dac69er]

Shit, thought they were quite strong the ones by him

its stainless at the end of the day and will fracture eventually!

 

[Stulet-GTT]

its stainless at the end of the day and will fracture eventually!

This is true, at the end of the day it may look nice it may look pretty but stenth is somink it an't got especially witht that presure running threw it...

 

[Adam-Gt-]

That happened to me on my way to work check out my Garage theres some pics in there ... luckily i no m8 who works at a bus depot so he just sorted it out for me for nothing

 

[durmz]

shit man thats crazy, ide be pisssseeedd!! some of these things need some serious bracing I think, all that vibration and weight hanging off the collecter cant be gd

 

[GTnomez]

Serious bracing may not be any better to be honest. If its too sturdy, then it will crack aswell.

 

[Rory]

It is braced.

One of the very reasons i will never have another Stainless manifold, thats made from cheapo 306.
It isnt suited for the application its intended for, ie: expansion and contraction from being really hot to cold.

 

[GaryGT]

Poor design collector chamber and that was always gonna happen.
thats a stress tear!! dont be blaming the welds dude

 

[Shorty]

^^
should still be able to do the job its made for! welds or stress it should'nt have gone. stainless manis just dont seem to work

 

[riko666]

Poor design collector chamber and that was always gonna happen.
thats a stress tear!! dont be blaming the welds dude

Is it me or is the wall thickness extremely small too, that looks no more than 1.5mm

 

[Matt Glanza]

We must be doing something wrong as all the jap manis are 306 grade and they never had a prob?

 

[dac69er]

We must be doing something wrong as all the jap manis are 306 grade and they never had a prob?

how many people actually run these jap manis though? they are so expensive i dont think ive ever seen a pic of one on someones car.

ive heard of the silk road manis cracking in the past, they are jap i think!?!?

 

[addz]

its stainless at the end of the day and will fracture eventually!

Very true, didn't run through my mind it was stainless

 

[popsy09]

my mani is stainless as well as all the flanges and i had no problems

what happens with the stainless is the flanges are mild steel and the manifold stainless and they cool down at different rates which can cause problems ,i think it was the great madman who told me this....

 

[MentaLEP91]

well, ive got a stainless mani (with external WG) and have absolutely no problem with it.

if the manifold is correctly braced and has 2mm++ thickness, it wont suffer a thing!