after bolting my wastegate on my manifold i noticed that the wastegate is making contact w/ a runner on my full race style mani. the UFO looking part of my tial 38mm touches one of the runners.

Will this be a problem?

 

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Do you have pics? If it is bad is there anyway to mod the WG a bit so that is does not hit, You could do a little cut and paste. or make a spacer

 

or get the wastegate flange cocked or lengthened

 

I have melted the diaphram without the wg touching anything. Unfortunatly, I would say you have a slight problem on your hands.

 

ok, i can prolly have the wastegate flange changed to make it fit better.

this is not my mani but its made by the same guy.


you see how the curved pipe goes to the wastegate? my is the same except it curves toward the passenger side. thats where my wastegate makes contact with the #3 (or #2 ) runner.

does that make a little more sense?

 

I would definately have an elbow welded on (like in the pic above)...

If you have ever taken apart a wastegate you will know that there is a rubber diaphram inside that could melt and cause it to fail if it got too hot...

You might not have any problems .... but then again you might, I wouldn't risk it...

 

Yeah it makes sense. Get an extension made (longer or w/ a small angle away from the manifold). Design error, OOps

Phil

 

thanks guys, i will look into and extention or ill just cut the elbow and weld the flnage back on so its at a lesser angle. i do not have AC so that wont be a prob.