Closer pic of the letters and numbers
Anybody know anything about this manifold?

Has no brand name on it or anything but it says made in Vietnam on it and some numbers but couldn’t find anything about it lol.

 

Holy hell that wastegate placement lol.

Numbers on the runner won't really tell us much, it's just the specs of the steel tubing used.

 

🤣 I know the wastegate is weird. That’s vietnAm for you hahah

 

Welp, it's mig welded, maybe they were able to seal that wastegate tubing shut lol.

 

Looks and feels pretty sturdy than the eBay cheap steal but we see if it can withstand the heat of the turbo.

You guys think its it’s a decent manifold compared to eBay? Looking to push 450-500whp

 

Maybe if you moved the wastegate.

 

Boost creep is a guarantee with that wastegate placement. You'll need to plan a way to handle that before you try to dyno it, otherwise you're just going to waste your time.

 

What are you guys suggestion on how I eliminate this boost creep since the wastegate placement is in a bad spot?

i can only think of getting a welder to cut off and weld shut on old spot and cut a spot in front the manifold....

or any other suggestions I’m open too head.

 

That's the only thing you can do, cut it off, cap it, move to a better location.

 

Noted. I’ll look around at some welder shop to do some rewelding.

The manifold I changed from blox log to ram now throws off my downpipe just a bit and can’t get it bolted up flush so I’ll get the downpipe redone and have them do the manifold while they’re at it.

 

For all the work for that shoddy manifold, honestly I'd keep the Blox. Or sell both and invest in something better.

Is it a cast manifold, or a tubular log?

 

It is a cast manifold and while I was breaking it in, one of the freakin bolt that goes to the wastegate broke evenly off and i tried the ez out, tried notching it to try to turn with flat head but nada. So I got tired wasting my time with it saw the shoddy manifold and gave $100 for it lol so I figured eh why not.

But if I have to and if this ram manifold cracks, I’ll weld a bolt on the broken one and try screwing it out that way or like you said sell these two and get mini ram manni.

 

If you run a setup thats compressor heavy with cams on the small side it will
help with creep as youll have more pressure on the manifold. Since its probably
a budget oriented setup a cheap but good GTW34 will be a good pair. Heck even a
t3 stg3 / 60-1.
If you get turbine heavy super free flow turbo like some holset / BW youll hate this manifold.

 

I have a garrett stage 3 60-1 .70 cold .63 hot turbo but with CTR cams. So should I swap to gsr cams or smaller?

i have the b18c1 cams then I have the b17 cams...

 

Not sure really. Its depends on what is a most valuable target power or boost controll and how much youll be charged for changing cams later...
Id run the smallest cams and tell lthe tuner to go leaner with lower ignition advance to send some extra fire on the manifold. He will know what to do.