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Okay someone deleted the last one for some reason so heres the newy.

304 stainless steel, 6-1 style of extractors, 3mm wall thickness, high mount position, tail external wastegate monting flange (cut off and weld on your own adaptor), stainless flanges.

The downsides I can see are:

Not tuned length (No big drama for us lamo street boys)

Wastegate does not merge into gas flow

Looks like the turbo will sit very close to the rocker covers

I haven't seen one myself so I don't know what the welding is like and how it looks in terms of positioning. I also don't know the diameter.

On the plus side they are only $580 if we get 10! Extra $200 if you get 321 stainless (aircraft quality material).

Luch, can you please fill us in on the diameter and the chances of getting a different style of wastegate pipe that doesn't require the gas to do a 180 in the flow to control boost?

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lukevl : i bought one from luch (ljstt) last week on wednesday. i put the money in his account on thursday ... the manifold was sent on thursday and arrived first thing monday morning. sorry i would have gone in the group buy but i needed one urgently.

he even called on monday morning to see what i thought of the manifold. i like it and he gave me a good price, so i'm happy all round :D

so if you want one i can thoroughly recommend his service / products :D

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