Hottuning 6 Branch Manifold £200 posted

[SHAZ325iSPORT]

are these still available?

[hottuning_eu]

Hi,

Yes they are.

contact me at hottuning@hottuning.eu

Best regards,

Louise

[john325tewerin]

At the discounted price? By any chance ?

Or has that ship well sailed.

[Omi]

John, my boy... Long time no see. - Come for a ride in mine, you'll bin the M20 the following day! ;)

[john325tewerin]

John, my boy... Long time no see.

'ey up Omi! Yes indeed, been quite awhile. Hope you're well. I haven't been on here for yonks. Nice to see you're still about.

Come for a ride in mine, you'll bin the M20 the following day! ;)

What's this then? Have you gone all 24-valve or something.

[Jamese30]

Hi Louise,
E-mail sent... Hopefully offer is still on?

Thanks,

James

[john325tewerin]

Is everybody happy with their manifold now. Is it safe to assume all issues have been resolved?

[Corolla]

any more - I would be up for one

[hottuning_eu]

We have them in stock, so contact me !!


Louise

[Chase007]

How is everybody finding these?

[ShepsEvo3]

The one we fitted to Agent006's car was fine after some re-welding and "porting" of a couple of pipes on the manifold, shame the rest of the exhaust system was not a match for the downpipe.

[john325tewerin]

"Re-welding" and "porting".

What? Was it really necessary? Or did Agent's car have something else going on?

[hottuning_eu]

Re-welding and porting?? You should have contact us, you did get a faulty one. We had send you a correct one.

The ones we have in stock now are correct, so the problems are resolved.

Louise

[Jamese30]

Mine is ordered and paid for - just awaiting delivery now.

Will let you know how I get on with fitting it. It will be mated up to a Scorpion system...

[john325tewerin]

Thanks James.
I've got the dough itching to be spent so I for one will be interested how you do. Especially too as you're mating it up to a Scorp.

[aceraf]

I'd be interested in how this mates up to a scorpion system aswell as just had one fitted and would be looking at a 6 branch in the future.

[Jamese30]

Will let you know guys and will post some pics. I e-mailed Louise yesterday and she is checking whether mine has already been dispatched.

[john325tewerin]

Nice one James. Thanks.

[dalius]

picture link is not working,I need to see it before I put my name on the list.

[AlpineAde]

Here's some crappy pics of mine.







EDIT: right click and choose "view image" (or whatever is the equivalent) to see full size images.

[john325tewerin]

All that for 200 squids!
Looks like value for money.

[hottuning_eu]

Good morning all!,

Maybe it is time to start a new groupbuy for the manifold!

We can start todat with that. And let´s see if we can get a number of 10 people again.

We can do it the same at the first group buy 200£ posted to the UK.



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Best regards,

Louise
Hottuning_eu

[john325tewerin]

Good morning all!,

Maybe it is time to start a new groupbuy for the manifold!

We can start todat with that. And let´s see if we can get a number of 10 people again.

We can do it the same at the first group buy 200£ posted to the UK.

Best regards,

Louise
Hottuning_eu

What the hell! For £200 I'll give it a go, as long as the problems have been rectified now.

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[ShepsEvo3]

Re-welding and porting?? You should have contact us, you did get a faulty one. We had send you a correct one.

The ones we have in stock now are correct, so the problems are resolved.

Louise

Hi Louise, we contacted the customer whos car/system it was as he supplied the system. Overall we were impressed with the manifold for the price, but we made some small improvements.

I can send you pictures if you would like to see?

The manifold did give a good increase in torque throughout the midrange if I can remember right.

[hottuning_eu]

The problems are resolved, we have new stock this week and they must be good!

If there is a problem for some reason what I can´t imagine, we always resolve it!



Louise
Hottuning_eu

[hottuning_eu]

Yes please send me the pics.


Louise

[AlpineAde]

And I would also like to give a big thanks to Louise from our Australian contingent who had our own "mini group buy". The level of service offered by this company has proven itself to be exceptional. Hottuning really outdid themselves to make sure we were completely satisfied with our purchase. We had one issue with a single manifold and that was sorted very quickly. As far as I am concerned Louise and Hottuning have proven themselves to be a very "customer driven" company. Their after-purchase support has been exceptional. I would happily purchase from them again.

And as stated above....you get a lot of product for the money. Well worth it.

[Scruffymurphy]

Any idea of a price including post to Ireland?

Thanks

[hottuning_eu]

205£ posted to Ireland


Louise
Hottuning_eu

[Jamese30]

No news yet guys of when it will arrive but when it comes I will post some pics and some of it being fitted to the car....

[Jamese30]

Ok folks,
Mine has now arrived, and all seems well so far. I am hoping to fit it to the car in two weekends time so will post some pics when it has done.

One thing I would say to those of you like me who have a pre-cat car, is that the manifold comes with a threaded hole for the lambda sensor so you will need to find a suitable blank as one is not provided.

I will let you know when I find one!!

Cheers,

James

[Trise30rally]

I used an old lambda sensor..........

[Jon_Bmw]

Any exhaust shop would have a bung. Also a spark plug will fit in there as well.

[Jamese30]

Cheers guys.
I will try a spark plug first.

Out of interest, are all lambda sensors the same size? So will any old one fit?


Thanks,

James

[Jamese30]

OK
So last weekend I finally got round to fitting my Hottuning manifold to my Scorpion system and I know a few of you were interested to see how this works.....

I have tried to do this with as much info as possible but if there is anything I have missed out just ask-

Firstly, my car is 1986 Chrome bumper car, 320i, with a 2.7 engine fitted and oil cooler - so in essence you are looking at how this will fit to a Pre-facelift 325i or 320i engine.



The first task, before touching the exhaust is to remove the expansion tank (you can leave it connected but be careful with the pipes) and the clutch reservoir and then remove the oil filter. (NOTE - For future oil services you will have to remove the front part of the manifold to get the oil filter off and on again!)

Next disassemble the exhaust manifold from the downpipe (4off 14mm nuts), then drop the downpipe from the manifold. The next job is to remove the 12 off 13mm nuts holding the exhaust manifold on and remove the manifold.

After this you will want to sepaparte the down pipe part of the Scorpion system from the centre section, which will be held on with 4 nuts and bolts (whatever size used initially - mine were 13mm).

You should have one olive on the downpipe (where it joins to the centre section)



...... and on the other pipe an olive should drop out between where the two flared ends met.

Carefully remove the olive on the downpipe (a bit of emery paper around the tip of the pipe helps here) and fit this to the Hottuning part.

You then need to start fitting the two manifolds into the engine bay (I left the delivery bubble wrap on for this for two reasons 1) So I didn't scratch my engine bay paintwork and 2) so I didn't mark the manifold - this sounds a bit daft but there is a huge amount of fiddling involved getting these parts in so you will tend to knock things). Start wth the rear part and then before bolting it into place (if you bolt it in place the front won't locate!) drop the front part in. This part is probably the most awkward!!




BEFORE bolting them in place REFIT the oil filter.

After bolting the manifolds (you will find all nuts now hard to access) on join the down pipe to Hottuning front centre section (provided). You will see that there is a threaded hole here 18mm by 1.5mm pitch. This will need to be blanked if you don't have a Lambda sensor - a dud lambda sensor will do or get a blank from e-bay.

Now join the back end of the Hottuning part to the front end of the Scorpion Centre Section being careful not to damage the olive on the Hottuing pipe and making sure you fit the other olive between the two flanges on the other pipe.



Once this is done, fit the U bolts to hold the two parts of the Hottuing front system together and make sure the slits are not allowing a gap into the system.

Refit the expansion tank, clutch reservior and check all nuts and bolts are torqued and then have a well desrved cup of tea!!