More pictures of the custom made tubular exhaust manifold...

[Jet Jockey]

I'd like to thank Markku of Agtronic Motorsport for the time and excellent work he's putting into my car. He's the one in charge of designing and building the exhaust manifold, the collector, the wastegate piping, the main downpipe, the intercooler end tanks for the FMIC and all its piping to the VR6 TB.

Here's the first angle of the one of the exhaust manifold runners.




A different angle. You can notice that the last hole in the Stainless Steel flange is elongated. The S/S flange and other parts (Pauter rods, Supertech Inconel exhaust valves, ARP studs and ARP head bolts) for the 2.0l conversion were all bought from Issam at 034 Motorsport.




Yet another angle.




In this picture it is mounted on an engine.




In this reverse angle from above shot you can see the 1.8T’s motor mount.




Same angle but from a lower position. You can see that the motor mount to tubular exhaust clearance is more than enough.




In this picture we added another elbow to show that the motor mount is well cleared by the piping from the manifold.

[dirtybrd]

Pretty!

[Turbo1A4]

looking good

[mattman]

beautiful. will it be ceramic coated or anything afterwards?

[absolutegtr]

Granted you have a vbolt flange setup, is route cheaper than just modifing a full race manifold?

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That's some nice prefab work there.

BTW... don't ceramic coat it unless you want to make another one.

[7speed]

wow that is very nice, i like it so far

[mike-2ptzero]

That's some nice prefab work there.

BTW... don't ceramic coat it unless you want to make another one.

Why is that? Shouldn't be an issue if he is using Sch 10 tube instead of thin wall SS.

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From the research I did after my incident the extra heat retained by the ceramic coating on the steel could push it beyond its specified temperature range and also alters the cool down rate as well.

I know it turned the thin walled steel into a much more brittle substance. The thicker pipe may fare better when coated, but I'm not a metal expert and just relaying information I came across after my decision to coat the header.

Comparing the possible gains from coating the header vs. damaging it and having to build a new one I don't think it is worth it.

[A4 Moda]

My man, you are disgusting.

YOu keep this up and you'll make barbarians out of all of us. We'll be tearing into the sheet metal and plush-laden seats of our b6's with our TEETH!!

Good work.
Keep it up.

Can't wait to see the results.

[Jet Jockey]

Granted you have a vbolt flange setup, is route cheaper than just modifing a full race manifold?

The Full Race option was indeed looked at. My tuner in VA knows the owner of Full Race and they offered to take their design and install the Vband on it.

In the end I/we decided that since everything else was custom made and that since Full Race did not have a manifold already made and ready to be modified, to go full custom made on the exhaust manifold too.

[mike-2ptzero]

From the research I did after my incident the extra heat retained by the ceramic coating on the steel could push it beyond its specified temperature range and also alters the cool down rate as well.

I know it turned the thin walled steel into a much more brittle substance. The thicker pipe may fare better when coated, but I'm not a metal expert and just relaying information I came across after my decision to coat the header.

Comparing the possible gains from coating the header vs. damaging it and having to build a new one I don't think it is worth it.

HPC has been coating manifolds for Full-race for a long time without any problems.

[GURUMAN]

Markku is tha man...

Saw it today at the shop, your car made me decide to put a cage in mine... Markku is gonna hadle it after he finishes your project...

remember this?

[A4ringedONE8T]

That 2.7T is a masterpiece for sure!!

[Jet Jockey]

Markku sure does nice stuff!

Where is your car?

[A4ringedONE8T]

Markku sure does nice stuff!

Where is your car?

Mine?

[Jet Jockey]

Mine?

No, I was asking guruman. You posted before I replied.

I Isn't your car on its way out? Your next project is a classified secret from what I have heard. :-)

[GURUMAN]

Not really secret, I bulding a spare second motor with all eurospec goodies with Je stocker pistons...

Tk race heads finally swapped all my pice of crap stock S4 valves to Supertech inconel's

The shell is stored for winter, but I have to send it to Markku to get a cage an then to Mike Rombotis brother Steve, to get a fresh coat of paint...

[GURUMAN]

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