Chris Wilson Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Just seen these photos of a Skyline RB26 engine with an aftermarket tubular exhaust manifold and single turbo on it. It may give you chaps some ideas for making a support for the turbo on your *JZ engines. It's not the most robust thing I have seen, but looks quite adequate. The people who assembled this engine know what they are doing and just WHY a support is needed. Heat up some thin walled tubular steel to the heat that a full power run gives it and you can bend it all shapes by hand. After a lot of heat cycling it cracks. Cracked stainless tube contaminated with carbon from the combustion process just doesn't weld properly, plus most manifolds are made of junk anyway. Personally I think the kits should come with this stuff, but people just won't pay the price. This engine's for sale, BTW, on the GTR forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heckler Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Would anything like that be required on a cast manifold? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted July 28, 2009 Author Share Posted July 28, 2009 Would anything like that be required on a cast manifold? Probably not, no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEDGE Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 I used to have a similar thing to that on my old saff cosworth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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