Does anyone know where to buy a new pinto turbo manifold from in the UK? Cheers
Does anyone know where to buy a new pinto turbo manifold from in the UK? Cheers
You can't buy them off the shelf, you have to either make it or get someone to make you one or buy a second hand one.
OK, cheers. What about importing one then? Aren't pinto turbos big in places like Sweden,Hungary, Malta etc????
They all make them or have them made from what I could find. Shouldn't be too difficult to find someone to make one for you.
At least here in Sweden it is all DIY, the volumes are too small to have someone make them and put on the shelf, and everybody has their own ideas on fitment etc.
Most people seem to know someone with a water or laser cutter that can make the flanges, if not, businesses like KL Racing do them: https://shop.klracing.se/sv/artiklar...into-10mm.html
They can also sell the bends and the turbo flange.
Regards
Gustaf
Cheers Gustaf
Im going to make mine
Sx200 stainless manifold (£125 of eBay)
Remove the flange and tig anew one on ( £50 for the flange )
Hope this helps
How much would people expect to pay for one to be made by an engineer? For a simple log type manifold it's looking like £100-150 just for bends and flanges.
Any easy way of building a turbo manifold starting from a Sierra collector and an old Turbo exhaust scroll. The last one has high nickel and weld very well with nickel rods.
Turbo very short agains engine, can fit Escort bay.
Mine cost me £175 total. I bought and supplied the flanges and my local shop supplied the bends and made the manifold.
An other way of building a turbo manifold
Have you got a pic of your manifold and do you know what material they used? Cheers
Have you got a pic of your manifold and do you know what material they used? Cheers
Do you mean my exhaust manifold as in the picture? I was using 4 mm mild steel laser cut. Nothing special. The good thing about mild steel is, it does flex a ver little and less cracks in use as with Stainless Steel.
Don't use SS, it cracks, and always will. Mild steel is what is needed, thick wall is important. The good thing about this manifold is, easy to build and easy to fix into a milling machine to grind it nice flat. Believe me trying to grind flange flat with a tubular manifold, forget it or must have flanges in the same direction.
I use 15 mm for engine and turbo flange.
PS, still got one or 2 sets of these base plates.
Got something in mind there, Graham?
Simon
I still got the complete manifold but I should also have plates somewhere and if not, I can have the reproduced. There was a small offset in length but easy to correct and about 10-15 pictures, step by step how to build it up
Come on Dyno - show more pictures, step by steps are always interesting
Hmmm, that sounds familiar.....
Simon
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Short photo list of how I made it. You can bent the end and bring the turbo flange under and angle if needed. Does make machining more difficult
Good series of photos and looks bloody solid! The head flanges make it - water jet cut? Are they individual pattern or 'one size fits all' ? I guess a simplification would be a flat single plate, drilled to suit then ground flat but wouldn't look as good!
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