New SBR Manifold w/ External Wastegate

[NeoZer0]

Your cases have been the only ones I have heard about their new manifolds cracking. I've had mine since last winter and drive mine daily year round with no problems at all. I also had the SBR port and polish job done on it. Did they replace your 2nd unit (assuming you didn't get the port and polish job again)?


I am still waiting for them to get more in. I have been waiting for over 2 months and they are saying it will be another month before they get more in. I have a mitsu club meet and show coming up October 14th and really wanted to get it replaced before then. I'm very disappointed with this whole situation.

 

[daren_p]

SBR said they had an issue with cracking on the first batch of manifolds on the origional design without the external WG flange. I have one of their origional design manifold that was the newer batch & wasn't supposed to have the cracking issue. When I took off my heat shield this past spring to do some mods I found 2 nice cracks on the outside of the mani in the collector area. I'm not sure what the inside looks like as I haven't had the turbo off yet, guess I'll find out next spring. So I found the cracks after 6 months of use, it wasn't even "used" enough to have surface rust on it yet

 

[RavenX]

I got my SBR manifold in May i believe from Dejontool. Anyway mine cracked after 1-2 weeks of using it. Looking at Neozeros diagram mine cracked right at where the number 2 bolt is. The washer was covering for the crack. Although it was small you could definitely tell it was leaking. I called slowboy about this and they told me it would take a while and that i would have to be put on list as well. Frankly i didn't have time to wait so i took it to my local welder. He cleaned the area(made the crack even bigger) and then welded it with stainless steel i believe. Either way i paid 10 bucks to get it fixed and had my car running that same day. The warranty is voided but i don't care. It would of cost me the same to ship it to them and then having to wait a long time for one i just didn't have the patience for that considering my car is my daily driver.

 

[Flybiyou]

Great I hate reading things like this makes me look under the hood more and more each day. The only thing I noticed with mine is a little rust that brushed away and now there looks like little bubble pits all over cant see them unless your a foot away from it weird. Like I dont have enough to worry about.

 

[Shane2GSX]

from what i understand i been wondering too, if you want to recir it you have to customize it or have a exhuast shop weld it.I heard its hard to weld to a stock 02 houseing, so i guess most people dump it, but what i am gonnna do is what rowlex did he had punishment 02 dump, he had the dump cut off and welded shut and welding it back to 02 hosueing , this is what he showed me

I'm doing this as well, how did it work out? Any problems?

Anyone else tried this?