the block is the same as is the manifold/turbo/pipe work so the mk4 golf and leon would have the same problems. obviously you simply had bad luck and it was a **** manifold :(

better luck in the future mate

not gonna do manifold in future. just from turbo back exhaust should do the trick

i might have an ATP uprated manifold for sale in the near future

would be willing to do a deal if i manage to get a tubular one i am happy with

would this fit?

yep, lots of monies though!!! £800 + delivery!

The way i see this is that if you want a decent, well made manifold then your going to have to pay for it.....

The ones off ebay i simply wouldnt even bother looking at tbh, as like the guy above has just found out, they are poorly made and given 6 months to a year will be scrap due to it cracking or something.

They stuff like Bill has, the equal length manifolds, are the way forward IMHO. Im sure bill made about 30bhp from the manifold alone, which ok with his set up was very good gains, with something with half the power then maybe it wouldnt get as good a gains as that but im sure you would see a healthy 15-20bhp.

JBS also do a S/Steel manifold to fit the standard KO3s turbo which isn't equal length & that retails at £450+vat.

The way i see this is that if you want a decent, well made manifold then your going to have to pay for it.....

The ones off ebay i simply wouldnt even bother looking at tbh, as like the guy above has just found out, they are poorly made and given 6 months to a year will be scrap due to it cracking or something.

i don't think thats right myself, my brother bought an ebay manifold/decat/exhaust for his focus and that was years ago and it has never gone wrong in the slightest and i think it cost something like £300 for the entire system.

just found a picture i took whilst we were fitting it and it was fitted on 10/07/2004 :eek: so over 3 years old and the decat has been removed and replaced for every mot and all that has gone wrong is the gasket finally fell apart the last time so it currently still has the cat on it

so based on my own experience of ebay tubular manifolds it is worth a go

and i forgot to ask, you don't think that £800 is a lot of money for 2 or 3 feet of stainless steel tube and a little bit of plate?

For a company that makes exhasuts and manifolds for a living its at most £50 worth of material but probably noticably less and even if it takes a whole day to make the manifold and they are paying their man £20 p/h thats still only £160 in labour so they are making £600 profit on each manifold!! and i bet their costs aren't anything like that much.

this is why others can make a manifold and sell it on ebay for £150 using good quality materials with free shipping yet still be making a profit.

i don't think thats right myself, my brother bought an ebay manifold/decat/exhaust for his focus and that was years ago and it has never gone wrong in the slightest and i think it cost something like £300 for the entire system.

just found a picture i took whilst we were fitting it and it was fitted on 10/07/2004 :eek: so over 3 years old and the decat has been removed and replaced for every mot and all that has gone wrong is the gasket finally fell apart the last time so it currently still has the cat on it

so based on my own experience of ebay tubular manifolds it is worth a go

manifold+decat was £150 despite it still being in one piece, i'm still looking at replacing it with a milltek manifold

but thats of a completely different design though :P

but thats of a completely different design though :P

that's a reason though, not the reason

any stainless steel manifold can crack.

I know of expensive ones that have cracked. Therefore paying £200 for a manifold, and it lasting 6 months say, is better than paying £800 and it lasting a year or what have you!

cheap doesnt always mean rubbish!

well after 6 hours in the garage we gave up

took all the hard pipes out and everything to find out that not all the bolts would fit on the manifiold properly and it was badly made. the oil and water lines would not pass underneath the unit without touching which ****ed me off even more. so its on its way back to bolton. maybe it fits the golf or the leon fine but the way the octy engine is mounted the one on ebay wont fit. word of warning to anyone who is thiniking of buying one from 2fast 2cool.

I tried 1 of the 2fast2cool ebay tubulaar manifolds on my vrs auq engine

didnt fit see pics

you can see the difference

would fit the audi or passat 20v t but not any transversly mounted 20vt motors

got a refund after a lengthy argument with the guy but he cant argue with a pic

Wonder :(

thats just the wrong manifold though not a badly made one, thats for a longitudinaly mounted engine like the passat/a4/superb not a transverse engine. don't blame the manifold!!

thats just the wrong manifold though not a badly made one, thats for a longitudinaly mounted engine like the passat/a4/superb not a transverse engine. don't blame the manifold!!

i spoke to the guy on the phone & we exchanged a few pic txts & he open up about another 3 or 4 manifold he had & all wer like this , look at the ebay pics all this design

:confused:

what confusing about it? its simply the wrong manifold.

1.8t transverse manifold:-

1.8t longitudinal manifold:-

see, its not that difficult. its just the wrong manifold. now if the seller said it was the right one then he is in the wrong but this doesn't mean that the manifold itself is a bad design or weak or badly made just that its for a different car.

hi

i know the manifold was for an audi or passat but he seller was adimant he has sold quite a few of them & not had any back yet are all like mine ??? was devod it wouldnt fit but it was actualy quite roughly made up close & very poor finishing inside the manifold itself with lots of rough spots & raw welds stil unground down :(

I had a look on ebay & xs-power are selling manifolds. I have emailed them & the reply I got was that they wouldn't fit, which I knew as they are the longitudinal manifolds. I have sent another email asking if they could manufacture one to fit the vRS.

will let you know the reply I get back.

hi

ive started to look at these manifolds now

THS High Flow Manifold 1.8T Golf Gti Leon Audi A3 on eBay, also Exhaust Components, Performance Tuning Parts, Car Tuning Styling, Cars, Parts Vehicles (end time 30-Dec-07 11:51:05 GMT)

still cast but just look at teh flow differnce in size/???

thats the same as the ATP manifold that i have on mine pretty much but a bit cheaper

does flow better than the standard turbo but not as well as a proper equal length tubular item, a kind of middle ground.

i sent mine back to 2fast2cool just before christmas. it was advertised like it would fit all seat audi skoda cars so it wasnt the buyers fault. we just got unlucky with bad advertising

definitely the sellers fault, if you ask and tells you it fits and its for your car and then it isn't you can't be blamed.