E30 Zone

help ive just been skanked by some guy on ebay, i bid on a black alpina manifold and i won. what he sent was a silver one which is the same as the one on my 88 325, . now hes telling me they are the same and hes offering to paint it black for me, so the question is what is the difference between alpina manifolds and the one supplied by bmw as standard ??

when i get a bit more time i will put the ebay url up to see if i am colourblind or not..

Bmw's was a log manifold and Alpina was a tubular manifold.

In other words Alpina's was 10x better than the BMW one, from what I've read the best manifold for M20.

i think were talking inlet here, Alpina ones are more a dark grey in colour and are port matched thats the only differences. They look same on the outside but different in colour

i dont really know what log and tubular means but i do understand the 10x better bit, do they look the same ?

the url for the one i bought is http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=006 with a bit of luck this should just work with a click,

That is inlet manifold my mistake.

He is a member on here.

looks just like a slightly grubby standard manifold to me. he doesnt state its a genuine alpina or even a copy/replica nor does he say its black.

i think you have just read too much into the small alpina reference in the title which is there for search purposes.

dont stress bud, can happen to anyone

would you say the one on the ebay picture is silver or black ?????

Looks grimy Silver to me?
As Beardymat said,no reference in the ad itself that its from an Alpina or that its Black.
Oh and you got it for a quid?I wouldnt complain too much for that

ah well might as well bin it then.

the pic is a little dark but its deffo a silver manifold. if you get to see an alpina one in black there is a deffinate difference.

its still got to be worth the money just to have it as a spare to experiment on with paint of different colours/shades

KINGOFSNAKE wrote:ah well might as well bin it then.

Why bin it?
just paint the thing yourself

i offerd to paint it free of charge.

and i never said it was an alpina its just a point of reference that it fits them aswell!

if you feel that hard done by send it back and i will refund your £1

wullie

all in all its ok mr wullie, its just not what i thought it was , and your right that i won it cheap and you now i look at it you graciousley offered to paint it. i probably did read too much into the advert, and im sorry . it just came at a bad time on top of a load of other dissapointing stuff, lesson learnt to do my research first,, glowing feedback on its way to you. oi rules.

ian

lol no problem mate.

i'll be dropping of a couple of manifolds (bog standard and a port matched one) to be extrude honed (the best flowing one of the two will be extrude honed) on Monday... so in a month or two when everything is done and installed i should have some flow and dyno results from a stock manifold compared to an extrude honed modified one.

that should be intresting to see what gains can be had and backed up with figures keep us posted dude!