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http://www.ebay.com/itm/Turbo-Manifold-B18-Acura-FullRace-/271878271141?hash=item3f4d3530a5&vxp=mtr

 

It's a turbo manifold, for a B series engine, being sold on eBay.

Did you have any actual questions?

 

I wonder why theres a bolt on the left side of the collector...

Turbo would also hang stupid low

 

nobody else notice the twin scroll wastegate setup, but both coming from the same side? Or that I'm pretty sure it is not a full-race piece. Or the bolt in the side?

 

must be one of them fancy diagonally divided collectors

 

Twinscroll? Looks like a semi-typical twin gate setup front mount turbo manifold. You guys do realize this is a front mount manifold right? LOL! The bolt (or possibly plug) is obviously coving a screw up as it looks like they hole sawed that side and put the piece back in. When you hole saw it drills a pilot hole in the middle to keep the saw cup from walking around. Now if Full-Race made it originally or not IDK, but it is possible and modification was made afterwards.

Still not understanding what the big deal is.

 

Perhaps he's wondering if it's a good deal and whether or not to buy it.

 

Yes buy it its on ebay

 

The dude has "0" feedback so you know you can trust him.

 

I've never seen a twin wastegate that wasn't a twin scroll. Why not just use a bigger wastegate. Either way. Obviously, full-race doesn't sell anything like that. They're manifolds are also robotic tig welded.

 

Well, search around, you will find twin gates on a single turbine housing is more popular than you think although mainly in the domestic world. A lot of well respected people on here even cut into their twinscroll to help balance the EMAP on their twin gate setup. Same principle in a round about way depending on how you look at it.

 

I really thought that my confusion about this manifold would've been more shared with others.
I've never in my life seen a wastegate setup like that on a Honda and it's safe to say that this isn't a full-race manifold unless it's from like 1996 or something.
Maybe it's legit, but certainly unusual.

 

I suspect that if you communicated with Geoff at Full Race, he would tell you that it is NOT one of their manifolds. Their products are well thought out and the craftsmanship is vastly superior to what you are seeing on this ebay manifold sale.

Another red flag to me is the price... used Full Race manifolds go for twice as much money as this one is listed for on the open market, and nearly four times that when new. So, this would be a crack-head, fire-sale price if it was genuine.

Accept the fact that the seller is trying to embellish the quality of his product by name dropping... and since you asked questions instead of impulsively buying, you will not be the guy that got "got" !!!

Now, move on and let it go.

 

Perhaps if you had more context than "Huh?" and question marks with a link to an Ebay item then others could share in the discussion.

 

I just thought it was pretty obvious that this auction had "huh?" written all over it. Kinda like if you saw a poodle at the pet store and the sign said great dane for sale and then you noticed it had like 5 legs or something.

 

Oh, I have no intentions of buying it. I was just price shopping some used tubular manifolds and came across this. I just thought I'd share it. I sent the guy a message asking him if it's a twin scroll manifold. Who knows what he'll say.

 

I still think that "huh?" best describes this thread. It's clearly fake and weird too.