Rb25 Exhaust Manifold Spacer

[wildeagle44]

Is anyone using one?

Im talking about a spacer between the block and turbo manifold. Turbo is hitting cam covers and not keen on cutting and rewelding my 6 boost.

Spacer will be about 7mm with gasket on both sides.

Will there be any issues?

Thanks

[Ben C34]

No one that I know of is using one.

That's not cool your manifold doesn't put the turbo in the right place

Iruvyouskyrine has the same issue.

Makes you wonder ......

[Ben C34]

I would much prefer to cut and re weld the manifold than to f**k around with a spacer like that.

Better yet. I would be pushing for Kyle to cut and fix the manifold.

[wildeagle44]

No one that I know of is using one.

That's not cool your manifold doesn't put the turbo in the right place

Iruvyouskyrine has the same issue.

Makes you wonder ......

We are running the same turbo too.

[GTSBoy]

Should point that out to Kyle. It's not as if it's an uncommon or excessively huge turbo.

[iruvyouskyrine]

I ended up getting mine cut and re-welded on at a different angle. Cost me $100

I think you should give him a call and let him know that it's having issues fitting, when I talked to him he said mine was about the 4th time he had ever heard of it with his RB manifolds. Be interesting to see what he says to you.

My turbo only clears by maybe 5mm now as you cannot move the flange to far otherwise you won't be able to get your wastegate on.

Mind chucking up some pictures?

[iruvyouskyrine]

Also did you buy it straight from him? I didn't but he said if I had of purchased direct he would have been happy to fix the issue free of charge.

[Ben C34]

Shouldn't matter who you bought it from.

If it's one of his manifolds he should do the right thing and fix it.

[wildeagle44]

I didn't buy direct from Kyle but have made both him and the supplier aware of the issue.

Hopefully will have a resolution from one of them tomorrow. Otherwise I'll go ahead and get it rewelded.

Just a real pain as it holds up getting the motor back in again.

[iruvyouskyrine]

Unfortunately it looks awfully similar. Who did you purchase your manifold through mate? Hopefully it wasn't the same place as me. Can PM me if you don't want to post it up here.

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I had the same issue with a open t3 flange 6 boost with a 1.06 gt35 rear not fitting, rear housing fouled on covers quite hard, sold manifold and went t4 divided

[Blackkers]

spacers don't sound like the right way to fix it. I'm sure it could work but I think the better option is having the flange adjusted.

I wouldn't be happy after shelling out for one of the big name's manifolds then it not going together as planned.

[wildeagle44]

Kyle just got back to me. Manifold is being sent back with my compressor housing and modified accordingly. Glad he's doing it rather than sombody else.

I wasnt awfull keen on the spacer either. Came up with the idea as a quick fix, clearly not popular haha.

Thanks for your input guys

[Ben C34]

I wonder if he will adjust his jigs as a result.