Im on a budget and it seems like DIY is the way to go for me? Has anyone here had complete success with this? Im gonna buy and make everything piece by piece so it should take a while. But one thing im not going cheap on is the turbo. IM buying that brand new.

 

Buy the time you buy a tig welder and weld up the manifold, down pipe and ic piping you could have bought a kit and been done with it prob a lot cheaper

 

I have a mig welder @ home and I have access to a tig at my grandparents place . But mig should do . Right?

 

i guess u could build ur own full race. probably costs u like 3hundred bucks compared to the 1XXX amount... but how are ur welds compared to theres? i say save all ur money until u have atleast 2-3K dollars... that way when u piece one by one, ur first piece might be old school stuff... i say be patient and then... or u could do what i did, wast a gang of money... do it right the first time....

 

bought a ramhorn for **** cheap...400shipped...made my own dp, charge piping, a/w setup, and tune'd w/ cromed....stock exh...but i have a 3" dp w/ ecutout...just takes time and patience but its not rocket science....tuning took me a while to get decent at...car ran ok for a while...then got cromepro and couldnt be happier...runs like a dream...now just workin a lot of partthortte to get better mpg

 

Mcmaster.com has the sch40 piping you'll need for a manifold. Regular steel will work fine. It lets more heat out, which decreases energy put into the turbo a bit. For <$100 you could make a simple steel tubular log manifold. Honestly, I'd go with a prefabed stainless mani.

The charge piping & dp can be made easily, look into mandrel bends at summitracing.com