When cheap SS Autochrome or Ebay manifolds fall apart... pics Beware!!!

[GST98BIG16G]

I drove my car and my manifold fell apart.... I guess good welding work SS autochrome , but anyways i was waiting for that to happen anyways You get what you pay for , guys thats the first and the most important rule , dont forget it.

 

[98evoIIIpwr]

Amen. You dont know how many cheap things I've bought for my ride and ended up buying something better. Luckily though, I didnt put the cheap stuff on. Hopefully you've learned your lesson, I know I did.

 

[boostx]

dammmm, how long did you have it on the car

 

[11secDSM]

That's hilarious! Have any more pics??

 

[1gdsmraider]

eh at least it wasn't something internal related from ebay... imagine if it was

 

[snox135]

Doesn't even look like it was ever welded

 

[95-talontsi]

Time to buy another one

If you havent had that on to long I would have to say it was probably caused by you wrapping it. Not saying that thats a quality part but you know, making it hold all that heat probably hurried the breaking process.

Port your stock one and put it back on

 

[streetxtreme]

why don't you weld that back you yourself it you have a welder

i see that if you don't have a welder, or access to one, it might be a bad to own one of these
but like me, if it breaks, i'll weld it myself,
still saves me like $400-500 for the more expensive ones
that can get me dsmlink

but put more pictures, its kinda hard to see if you don't have other parts to reference with

 

[Merkles]

Time to get the FP race manifold

 

[Tsi_User]

eh at least it wasn't something internal related from ebay... imagine if it was

SS autochrome pistons and valve/springs/retainers

That sucks man, got any more pictures?

 

[mitsured420]

That sucks man.Im a little nervous i have an exotic speed manifold and an xs dump pipe(bought on ebay).what were you doing when that happened?how long was it on there?the welds on mine look good but those pics tell a different story.

 

[Foreverfalcon40]

I have been on theese forums for a while. THE SEARCH BUTTON is your best friends in which it would have saved the $$$ and time it took to install this.

The otherone with the wastegate off of EBAY, don't install that either. RETURN IT ASAP if you can. What happens when your wastegate doesn;t open KABOOM!

Either way, from I learned the only good thing EBAY makes for our car is 02 Housings and FMIC kits.

 

[BrokenTsi]

Don't know the reason to bother with SSautocrap. Especially when using mitsu based turbo's. A 2g, or evo manifold will probly outperform those poopy things, and wont fall apart. Id run a 2g manifold with an adapter for T3 before i bothered with a XS manifold.

 

[phillabaum03]

Doesnt wrappin the manifold make it more likely to fail at the welds ### it cools down faster? Ive ran ebay manifolds on 2 of my cars. And the talon i ahev no is also running a ebay 50 trim and i bet it runs 11s this year... Just a question tho

 

[luvmygst]

IF it was me I would re-weld it and go, but Im a cheap a$$ Wanna sell it.

 

[socalrcr]

Your first mistake was wrapping the header, well i guess the first mistake was buying it LoL. But rapping a header like that is just asking for failure, everytime ive wrapped a header something has happened.

 

[selmerguy]

I have a ebay manifold on my 1g now. I paid like 120 shipped. Works fine. Now I bought a expensive one for my 2g rs and it cracked 3 times. It's like rolling dice man. It sucks but an easy fix.

 

[GSTeclipse]

Don't know the reason to bother with SSautocrap. Especially when using mitsu based turbo's. A 2g, or evo manifold will probly outperform those poopy things, and wont fall apart. Id run a 2g manifold with an adapter for T3 before i bothered with a XS manifold.

Yep what I was thinking ...I am wondering when people are going to use the search button and read about the stuff they want to buy before they do (it's called do your homework) and then people want to put pics and complain about it .......

These manifolds are a given

 

[GST98BIG16G]

what are the best buy headers? or just port my stock one? suggestions? i need headers asap. I just dont want to bother and weld the SS one because its going to crack somwhere else not on the weld ....

 

[Low Impedance]

Your first mistake was wrapping the header, well i guess the first mistake was buying it LoL. But rapping a header like that is just asking for failure, everytime ive wrapped a header something has happened.

please try to explain why this is so to at least give your statement some reasoning behind your incorrect thought.

 

[prostreetdsmx1]

reweld it? are you guys serious? throw that POS in the trash, put it up as a notch on the "won't fall for that again" tree and invest in an FP or SBR manifold that you will NEVER have an issue with.

best of luck bud.

 

[1gdsmraider]

Heheheh ... Threads like this are all over the place and yet people STILL buy this crap and try to justify it.

And as for the wrapping the header comment... wow. That is all.

 

[The_EE]

reweld it? are you guys serious? throw that POS in the trash, put it up as a notch on the "won't fall for that again" tree and invest in an FP or SBR manifold that you will NEVER have an issue with.

best of luck bud.

I would have to disgree with the SBR Manifold and no problems with them. I had mine for 14 months and I am SOL.

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e119/The_EE/002.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e119/The_EE/001.jpg

 

[Warharan]

I would have to disgree with the SBR Manifold and no problems with them. I had mine for 14 months and I am SOL.

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e119/The_EE/002.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e119/The_EE/001.jpg

Argh. I just bought one and will be putting it on soon. The thing is quite beefy, maybe you just got the black sheep out of the bunch? For $300, you'd think it's a quality product.

 

[snox135]

Argh. I just bought one and will be putting it on soon. The thing is quite beefy, maybe you just got the black sheep out of the bunch? For $300, you'd think it's a quality product.

I've seen quite a few post of these cracking. I know there very first batch made had severe problems, but even the newer ones are cracking. It seems the newer ones are much better though.