T3 Adaptor For Stock 745i Manifold Interest?

[Kyle in NO]

Jeez, you'd be half way to a used TCD manifold after paying for this poorly designed adapter for a shitty manifold.

[Golosok]

You can buy a tubular manifold for $850. and run any turbo and wastegate you want.
Why mess with ancient manifolds?

It's very nice manifold, no questions. But it's top mount, so I will need to change all piping to intercooler. Also oil lines, downpipe, wastegate. Almost everything. With adapter I can upgrde turbo and do just a small change to downpipe, all the rest staes the same, or almost the same. Totally different investment.

[turboinduction]

If you have your own opinions on the topic then that is fine. Do I destroy an idea of a tubular manifold or a different cast manifold, NO. I have an old Cartech manifold and a TCD manifold, the cartech is cracked and I am using the TCD. I do not have a problem with these manifolds they are great manifolds but some people are looking for a different option such as this adapter plate.

AS far as my shitty designed adapter plate. You are seeing a rough work up, that was the first plate that we had made. IT is in no way finished. If I had known I was going to be faced with so much criticism I wouldn't have even brought the idea here and I would have taken it elsewhere.

So, I am asking anyone with a negative opinion on my idea to please stay out of this thread. If you don't have something nice to say please do not say it at all.

[mooseheadm5]

[HiNick]

I also made one like these a while back, here's how it is mounted up:

[turboinduction]

Did you get respectable power out of it?

Did you bead blast and ceramic coat that manifold, its quite a beauty.

[HiNick]

Did you get respectable power out of it?

Did you bead blast and ceramic coat that manifold, its quite a beauty.

As my other project has gotten most of my time recently, I haven't gotten this baby tested out yet I'm afraid.

On the pic here it's only cleaned and sand blasted, haven't gotten the paint on yet