So I got kinda interested in the obx intake manifold and figured why not use one. For only 135 bucks its not that bad. Well I just put it on today and wow. This is quite possibly the biggest piece of **** ever. Everyone is going to say you should have know but half the people on here just hate on obx cause it dont cost 400 bucks. For 135 if it made any improvement it would be worth it. Well it DOES NOT make any more power than the stock z6 I had on the car before. Installing this thing is what makes it the worst thing ever created on the planet. The manifold really hits the brake booster bad.(EF's) and the vibration it casues is annoying as hell. Also the stock nuts that hold the manifold in place DO NOT fit. I had to grind the lip off of them and use the smaller header bolts and grind them as well. Also the fuel rail part of this is reallt crooked and makes it very hard to fit the fuel rail on it. All in all this a VERY shitty product. Absolutly horrable and a huge waste of money. Does not fit properly at all and makes little to no horsepower gains. The only good thing about this is that it could be used as a great ITB project. Oh yea .....its hella crome great for that Stunna look! Just thought Id share my experiance with everyone since theirs not alot of real info on this manifold.

Nate

 

Good to know. I'm glad I didn't buy one. I kind of had the same mentality as you, but wasn't crazy enough to actually buy it. Now I'm glad I didn't.

 

Pics

 

x2

 

I had one obx manifold before. the one thing good about it is taking lot's of space...

 

These are huge but here you go

 

so what your saying is that the stock ones better

and i agree it is pretty fukin gay lookin

 

Wow, Im glad I didnt buy one also, the fitment of that looks horrible. Is it just me or is the neck that extends from the plenum to the TB smaller than the diameter of the TB itself? Wow, it is blingbling but I wouldnt be able to sleep at night with it hitting the brake fuild resivoir like that.

Thanks for the tip. Sorry it sucks.

 

wow I never did see that IM.
looks like ****!!!

 

Wow, hitting your brake booster? Hope you took that POS off asap.

 

ya and the welds brake on them too.

 

i imagine in forced induction setups you could yeild a power gain... but the build quality looks poor

 

obx skunk2

 

looks like it would be good for homemade itb setups

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Chronicsinners &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> imagine in forced induction setups you could yeild a power gain... but the build quality looks poor </TD></TR></TABLE>

Actually had a friend that used that on a d16z6 boosted setup and blew the welds off by the trottle body.

 

Thats, really funny!!
I am just thinking about the F and F movie where he blew the manifold apart with too much NAAAWWWWWZZZZZZZZZZ.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by poundedsedan &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">So I got kinda interested in the obx intake manifold and figured why not use one. For only 135 bucks its not that bad. Well I just put it on today and wow. This is quite possibly the biggest piece of **** ever. Everyone is going to say you should have know but half the people on here just hate on obx cause it dont cost 400 bucks. For 135 if it made any improvement it would be worth it. Well it DOES NOT make any more power than the stock z6 I had on the car before. Installing this thing is what makes it the worst thing ever created on the planet. The manifold really hits the brake booster bad.(EF's) and the vibration it casues is annoying as hell. Also the stock nuts that hold the manifold in place DO NOT fit. I had to grind the lip off of them and use the smaller header bolts and grind them as well. Also the fuel rail part of this is reallt crooked and makes it very hard to fit the fuel rail on it. All in all this a VERY shitty product. Absolutly horrable and a huge waste of money. Does not fit properly at all and makes little to no horsepower gains. The only good thing about this is that it could be used as a great ITB project. Oh yea .....its hella crome great for that Stunna look! Just thought Id share my experiance with everyone since theirs not alot of real info on this manifold.

Nate </TD></TR></TABLE>

Sad but i would like to use it to make an ITB manifold out of..

 

damn, I actually dont like how it looks, and your rail looks like **** mounted on there lol, no offense, u did what you could, take that thing off and put the stock one back on man, you'd probably feel a hell of a lot better running the stock one

 

Well this manifold is complete ***. Just bought the skunk 2 one and will be installing it later today watch for another thread with pics guys. O btw this obx is up for grabs i guess if anyone wants it for itb project of jus needs a mani let me know

 

keep us posted! also, post some pics of the 4 door! 4 doors

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by poundedsedan &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">So I got kinda interested in the obx intake manifold and figured why not use one. For only 135 bucks its not that bad. Well I just put it on today and wow. This is quite possibly the biggest piece of **** ever. Everyone is going to say you should have know but half the people on here just hate on obx cause it dont cost 400 bucks. For 135 if it made any improvement it would be worth it. Well it DOES NOT make any more power than the stock z6 I had on the car before. Installing this thing is what makes it the worst thing ever created on the planet. The manifold really hits the brake booster bad.(EF's) and the vibration it casues is annoying as hell. Also the stock nuts that hold the manifold in place DO NOT fit. I had to grind the lip off of them and use the smaller header bolts and grind them as well. Also the fuel rail part of this is reallt crooked and makes it very hard to fit the fuel rail on it. All in all this a VERY shitty product. Absolutly horrable and a huge waste of money. Does not fit properly at all and makes little to no horsepower gains. The only good thing about this is that it could be used as a great ITB project. Oh yea .....its hella crome great for that Stunna look! Just thought Id share my experiance with everyone since theirs not alot of real info on this manifold.

Nate </TD></TR></TABLE>aahhmm good right up nate i like how you mentioned how i strugled to get the fuel rail on and how i had to grind off all the bolts to get them to fit let me share my experience its perfect for turbo but only gay suace about it is the stupid brake booster is in the way and the dumb *** bolts just dont go on its gay oh yeah when i was all done tightn up the mani bolts there was a gap at the top of one of the runners so i put some rtv sealer and nomore fat *** leak all in alll gay *** suace DO NOT BUY ONE and were gonna do a nice write up on the skunk2 mani full pictures to with pics of the gay 4door jk nate,

 

Lets hope you dont run into any of the problems with fitment with the Skunk2 peice.

 

that thing looks like a waste of perfectly good metal