E30 Zone

These look cheap are they any good?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-E30-6-CYLINER ... dZViewItem

that is very cheap, question is do they work and how well!

who will be brave enough to try one out??

very cheap

dazleeds wrote:who will be brave enough to try one out??

very cheap

I would but he doesn't appear to do one for an M30.
Going to email him and find out how much to fabricate one

Would fit RHD?

What worries me is that doing a google search doesn't list a 'Raceland Racing'. However, it came up with this ad from the same outfit, and if you read the small print Disclaimer, things don't sound so 'Hot'...
http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/POLO-86C-MK-1-2 ... dZViewItem

I did a search and found that the saxo boys are doing a group buy and a comparative test on raceland and btb...it has been fitted on some of their cars but could not be bothered going further

look for yourselves

http://www.saxosportsclub.com/index.php

a lot of the german sites put the disclaimer i think it has something to do with putting on a part that is not TUV approved

What the feck is "Dual-Tig" must add atleast 20Bhp......

The welding does not look that good either......

chu346 wrote:Would fit RHD?

Doubt it, rub against the doughnut..

u get what u pay for and i dont think that looks upto much,

Taken from the Paxo site

The Saxo Sports Club is a long standing Car Club which puts emphasis on meeting new people and having fun with our cars. Events take place monthly throughout the UK and there is also one of the most popular car-related forums anywhere on the net right on our website.

May I draw your attention to the second half of the second sentence.....

Then note that their membership currently stands at just over 1,700.

Ours is approx 14,500

I wouldnt trust anyone who can't spell percent...

The manifold flanges don't appear to line up!

if this gives 10-20% ie 17-34 horses on a 325 then I will be amazed why do people who sell tuning products routinely lie? It makes them look like muppets and anyone who buys from them.

I think BTB sales are going to diminish with the likes of these wonder products.

Sal

M5pilot wrote:I think BTB sales are going to diminish with the likes of these wonder products.

Sal

Sal ... can I have my money back ?

And try picking up your emails !!

G

no comment on the manifold but i remember when there were only 1200 odd on e30zone! u should too sooty

why do people who sell tuning products routinely lie?

Guess they're fairly safe in the knowledge that 90% of their customers won't ever test scientifically any power claims made, and there's always some reason why "it didn't make the power it shoulda mate" isn't there.

I've done quite a lot of digging around for info in TIG welding recently having just bought a TIG welder and haven't come across the term Dual TIG at all....but of course "Dual" must mean twice as good!

There is no such thing as "Dual TIG". The welding in the pic looks like MIG welding, not TIG.....

no comment on the manifold but i remember when there were only 1200 odd on e30zone! u should too sooty

Yeh......I didn't have grey hair back then

Hi

My cousin works in china and is always trying to get me to import stuff like this, the e36 headers & turbo manifolds on ebay usa come from there, those guys are probably on a 100% mark up.

(google for a web site called chinasourcing.com or soethng like that)

But at Ԛ£200 is better than a standard (craked manifold ) and down pipes.

Jason

kam-325i wrote:There is no such thing as "Dual TIG". The welding in the pic looks like MIG welding, not TIG.....

Off topic but I didn't know you could MIG weld stainless

MIGged my entire S/S system. It doesn't look anywhere as nice as TIG and the welds are quite hard and brittle (which MIG welds seem to be anyway) but so far so good

Interesting.. i ran a raceland manifold on my old 106 rallye with a GTI lump, and to be honest thought it was excellent, in quality/fit and gains. I'd had a Supersprint mani on a 205 gti i'd had previously, to be honest i thought the both were as good as each other! and the s/s was ALOT more money!! Also on the rallye forum i remember a chap that does hillclimbs testing this against another manifold which was expected to be far superior.. but infact the raceland came out better, mid and peak, i think he still uses it on his race car..

Only thing i'm not sure about is that i swear the company was based in Europe, Belguim i think, not the US as stated i have to say though, if this is made by the same people i'd try it if i was looking for a manifold..

Off topic but I didn't know you could MIG weld stainless

You use stainless mig wire ??

you also need a different gas to weld stainless. i've done it before. nowhere near as nice as tig though! however, it's a LOT easier!

320iSE wrote:The manifold flanges don't appear to line up!

it's a 2 part manifold... it's just sitting wonky in the pic as without a head or system attached, the 2 parts aren't attached to one another.

i dunno how u tell the difference of MIG or TIG weldin by lookin at a shite pic!

gareth wrote:you also need a different gas to weld stainless. i've done it before. nowhere near as nice as tig though! however, it's a LOT easier!

Just used Argoshield Light for mine.

Guy at the supplies place said it usually works just fine, but sometimes you need pure Argon for some reason or other.

I did try TIG welding with argoshield though and it just carburised the stainless whereas even my welding comes out pretty nicely with pure Argon and the TIG

e21Jason wrote:Hi

My cousin works in china and is always trying to get me to import stuff like this, the e36 headers & turbo manifolds on ebay usa come from there, those guys are probably on a 100% mark up.

(google for a web site called chinasourcing.com or soethng like that)

But at Ԛ£200 is better than a standard (craked manifold ) and down pipes.

Jason

hmm stock cast manifolds rarely crack

they warp!!! there a shite design anyway, how do u get good flow out that lump!

hmmmmm tech 2 dolphin sport, i have seen u on hammondstreet road, i used to have a tech 2 dolphin sport with a 2.7 seen me around??? now have the car in the sig...

yes they do warp