E30 Zone

Im looking at buying a Hottuning Stainless Manifold of ebay aas ive heard goog this and alot of you on here seem to have them. At the moment i have and old stainless exhaust on the car witch was on when i bought it and it crap. Im looking at gettting a new system, been looking at a scorpion system but ive hear people have had to modify there centre sections of exhaust to fit the Hottuning Manifold. If im going to buy a new system what do i go for so it will all just bolt together with no modds? A 2 system or 3 or what? Any help will be great, thanks for reading.

Graeme

Hottuning manifold is designed to fit a 3 piece system. I have modified my 2 piece to fit using a saw and some exhaust sleeving. It's a bodge but it works.

Any pics, agent006?

Cheers,

Nope, fraid not. Imagine a bean can (big one) and some butch jubilee clips on a join where the exhaust crosses from right to left under the car and you're pretty much there.

So am i righht i thinking i need to buy a 3 piece system scorpion system and the hottuning maanifold they will both bolt together? If there is anyone whho hhas alrwady done this would you just confirm this for me. Also if anyone can recomend a good price/supplyer of the scorpion system.

Thanks Again Graeme

You require the centre and rear sections of a three piece system.The Hottuning manifold forms the front section. The manifold comes with a bolt up/olive type join for one pipe and a sliding joint type for the other pipe.The centre section that I bought from GSF came with two bolt up/olive type joints,so Mr Anglegrinder came out to play and we sliced off the olive joint on the centre cection to create a sliding joint.Do buy your manifold through the 'trader' section on the zone because it will save you a bit of cash...you will also need two or three exhaust clamps to assemble the system,and a blanking plug for the lambda sensor hole on the manifold crossover section. Walkers supply one via Partco for about £2.Or you could use a 14mm spark plug with the insulator cut off...

So if i get a 3 piece system iit will bolt directly to the HHottuning manifold withhout any modification?

daimlerman wrote:The centre section that I bought from GSF came with two bolt up/olive type joints,so Mr Anglegrinder came out to play and we sliced off the olive joint on the centre cection to create a sliding joint.

A little modification required then.