Dee

New IC piping and valve cover paint...


Oily hands and a stainless mani are not a good match!


Leftside shot


Top/rear shot


I'm hoping the can of Pikal metal polish I bought last night will clean up most of the oily spots.

TurboSohc

God damn thats one of the nicest engine bays I have ever seen . What did you use to pait your valve cover and ic piping? How much did that manifold run you? Afraid of it cracking? Overall nice job

Dee

I used a spray by a company called "Willson". I started with their white primer followed by two coats of their Honda blue pear paint (HO-21 Honda B-62P), and finished with their metallic pearl clear coat. The 8 cans of paint cost me $40 but only because a cute lil' friend hooked me up. Normally (1) can cost $10. I have a lot left and I still need to paint the rest of my piping.Oh yeah! Please don't paint car parts inside of your apartment because this **** will give you a headache! I actually put a fan in the window for ventilation and this **** still made me high as a kite!

My mani has two stainless braces that connect the turbo flange to the header flange so I am not too worried about cracking.

TurboSedan

Wow yeah, the paint looks very nice. I love blue!
What other plans do you have for it?

Dee

I have lots of plans since I am currently using my .55bar low boost setup.

The following parts are waiting for me to get off of my *** and send my P72 head to Portflow:

GE massaged 2.0 liter B18C block
84.5mm 9:1 RW
Eagle rods
HKS T300S (60-1/T3)
720cc trust injectors
blah blah blah!!

TurboSedan

Holy crap! That sounds like one hell of a setup in the making! Good luck with it!

PrecisionH23a

ive been looking where to get the kiwi mani and dp for months and even posted several threads on here as well as searched. i ended up with no info. where did you get yours and do you know how i can get one for my h23a? thanks for the info! your set up looks good

shamoo

You guys and your crazy right hand drive cars.

Very nice manifold and great work on the valve cover. I spent about 10 minutes doing mine and now I want to strip it cuz it looks like ***. Hehe.

Keep up the good work.

turbopanda

Dee, thank you very very much for the pics, I greatly appreciate them! I shall be printing them, laminating them, and giving them to my exhaust shop guy to get it copied. And Mr. Shamoo, don't dis the RHD drivers!! I wouldn't trust myself steering a car with my LEFT HAND!!

TurboSedan

Left hand, right hand............just depends on what you're used to!

shamoo

Hehe

01ITR#700

Is Kiwi still in Business? I heard they/he went out of business. I could be wrong I just heard that from a shop here. I heard their manifolds are/were pretty damn nice though.
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Nice setup BTW

boomslang

Nice blue valve cover.

Dee

Thanx for the compliments guys! I don't think Kiwi mani's are sold anymore and I got mine from a member on this board!

Full-Race Geoff

One ismple way that seems to really prevent cracking is to cut the slots in the flange... i definately reocmmend trying that. The stainless pieces of strap dont work nearly as well. On my kooks i braced it with 4 stainless pieces and all that happened was that they cracked off heh... good manifold tho, it looks like its the same material we use.