[s-cars] How much are the RS2 manifolds going for now?

[Ned Ritchie]

I don't even know what they should go for now?

Our first 10 Intended Acceleration castings were sent out to be stress
relieved before being sent to the machine shop, then touched up with a
die grinder, and then sent to Extrude Hone.  Our later ones skipped the
stress relieving just to hurry things along, but since ours were
slightly thicker we apparently escaped the cracking issue except when
cylinder heads leaked water into them.  Later we skipped the Extrude
Hone too as the shape not the surface quality seemed to be more
important.  Then we build some with the flange for the Sport Q type
turbo with the 55 mm hole.

Nickel prices and casting costs are just soaring now, so the cost to
create some more has more than doubled, and I don't know where it will
stop or whether it is even worth making more.

Comments to . . .
Staff at IntendedAcceleration.com


Ned

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Subject: Re: [s-cars] How much are the RS2 manifolds going for now?

In a message dated 4/6/04 8:37:04 PM Mountain Daylight Time, 
landaeta1 at comcast.net writes:
Could the warping be due to improper torgue,
and/or installation bits (bolts, gasket, etc.)? 


My guess is "no."  I think that they tend to warp due to the repeated
extreme 
heat cycles.  AFIAK, I don't think anything is done in production to try
and 
replicate actual use.
Dave in CO
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