[s-cars] Looking for photos of the exhaust manifold done by Ned Ritchie

[Scott Justusson]

 IME, you'd have to know your manifolds really well to tell by looking externally.  AFAIK Ned's manifolds were direct copies of the RS2 manifolds, albeit with the extrude hone on the inside.  So technically you are correct, both the RS2 and the IA EM's were better than the OE AAN/3B 20vt exhaust manifolds.  Comparing RS2/IA, I always considered them interchangeable parts (read: commodity differences only), and Ned's product was a deal back when a true RS2 EM cost at least an arm and a leg.  I know when I spoke to Ned about them when I got one of the first he had made, I wasn't (and am still not) convinced that the extrude hone process really did a damn thing - but it sure was the nicest piece of exhaust manifold art since the 2pc 10vt design.  The one I bought from Ned was extrude honed, and it sure looked pretty until you bolt the turbo on, then you don't see a damn thing, it looks like any other 20vt manifold with a turbo hanging off it.

HTH and my .02

Scott J
84 Urq
83 Urq
87 4kq

 


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Forgie <forgied at shaw.ca>
To: Scott Justusson <qshipq at aol.com>
Sent: Sun, Sep 11, 2011 3:28 pm
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Looking for photos of the exhaust manifold done by Ned Ritchie


Scott:  How close were Ned's manifolds to the factory RS2 manifolds?  I thought that the design was better than the OE AAN runner design.

Dave F. 

----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Justusson <qshipq at aol.com>
Date: Sunday, September 11, 2011 9:03 am
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Looking for photos of the exhaust manifold done by Ned Ritchie
To: forgied at shaw.ca, s-car-list at audifans.com

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>  David
> I bought one of these several years ago, and since sold it and 
> put it on a customer car I still service.  Not sure 
> 'exterior' pics of it will do much good, as it looked like a 
> standard issue 20vt manifold.  The early versions of Ned's 
> manifold tho, were extrude honed to a mirror finish, which is 
> what made it the cats meow to me.  IIRC, after several 
> discussions on the phone with him back in the day, he had 
> discontinued the EH process about half way through his 
> production of them.
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> I can take a pic of the 'outside' of the EM for you in the next 
> week, for what it's worth, I don't think much...
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> Scott J
> 84 Urq
> 83 Urq
> 87 4ktq
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Forgie <forgied at shaw.ca>
> To: s-car-list <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Sent: Sat, Sep 10, 2011 10:38 pm
> Subject: [s-cars] Looking for photos of the exhaust manifold 
> done by Ned Ritchie
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> I am looking for photos for the archives, partly out of curosity 
> (I once had a 
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> change to take a photo
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>  and blew it) and partly to be able to identify this rare 
> EM when they come up 
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> on a forum for sale.
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> Leads and/or photos appreciated.
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