thinking about buying a CHEAP manifold

[loveless]

and need some comments

- 100% 304 Stainless steel
- 2.8mm wall thickness
- 0.5" flange thickness
- Includes bolts and gaskets

someone is going to say that it might crack, but all manifold, even hks, invidia, greddy will crack. For a fraction of the cost (130$ shipped) you can't really complain.



how come all the brand name exhaust manifold looks like the following color?

jic


hks

and all the knock off ones are chrome color?

anyways, I am expecting to finish this in about 1 afternoon of work (on my own) with only hand tools, think that's possible?

I am guessing the procesure is probabaly something like
1) disconnect downpipe/hotpipe
2) heat shield
3) losen the bolts between turbo and manifold
3) remove bolts between manifold and block
4) detach turbo from manifold (assuming that I can do this without removing the oil/water lines)
5) swap manifold and reverse installation process