stainless steal manifold

[Rupe30]

Just wondering if any1s put a stainless steal manifold on their E30 - ive just bought one for my 318iS - looks good eeh!


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[wullie325i]

hi

looks good mate and should give a good noise i would think!

[ed325i]

Looks good just make sure it will fit a RHD car.

[Brianmoooore]

This has been asked before, and it's very unlikely that a manifold not specifically designed for a RH drive car will fit without modification.

[wullie325i]

hi

asked the seller about these and they are for lhd cars

[ric325i]

if you can modify that it would be amazing!

should not take too much?

[Gwynleym10]

You do know that a 318is already has a stainless manifold from factory don't you?

[ed325i]

You do know that a 318is already has a stainless manifold from factory don't you?

I didnt know that.
Shouldnt think it flows to bad being a 4 pot

[Rupe30]

can it be modified to fit a RHD car then?? if so how?

i've bought the engine separately to put in my 316 which is why i didnt have a manifold for it!

[Gwynleym10]

Stainless steel is an arse to weld, you might as well get a secondhand standard one. There are plenty of 318is being broken at the moment.

[Rupe30]

dus any1 know the modification then to make it fit??

[Gwynleym10]

Its basically going to have to be remade in my opinion, It probably wont clear the stearing linkage. This means that all the pipes are going to have to be rebent / re newed and re welded. This will probably cost the same amount as how much you have bought it for.

Really, just get a standard one.

[Rupe30]

god dayuumm! i cant find 1 anywhere!

[--alpina--]

Forget about modification for now the amount of money spent and gonna be spent you could have gone to powerflow and get one made for cheap cos well tax init, below should get you thinking thats why i keep away from importing stuff, only if i was desperate for something and cant find i will expect to pay thru my balls with it..

Very nice, $199.99 good price so in english sterling your looking at roughly £101.51 hope you do know when HM customs catch up with you and they will trust me cant get away with import tax, that manifold will end up costing you approx a lovely grand total of £260... so if payed paypal already then save up some more money for the queen cos she`s loving it, i got stung once by HM for importing a handmade carpet interior from california and the F-----G tax cost more than the carpet made. i was.... whats the word.... mmmm thats it - proper F----D OFF.

just a word or warning, if its in the Europe you only pay the tax for the item and shipment, anything out of europe excluding british colonies your coughing mate...

just hope you get away with it (fingers crossed) then its a touch otherwise out of the blue you get a HM customs summons to pay with 2 weeks or the queen is gonna be in the docks watching you!!


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[schwarz]

i got stung with one of those once because the seller was in the u.k so i presumed it would be for rhd. fancy selling lhd fitment parts on ebay.co.uk! yeah, i sent it back and never got a refund. seller was jperformance or jap performance back then, BEWARE!

i only wanted it for noise, not performance. i dont think anyone could make a better one than the o.e. for performance.

[Rupe30]

...shit! cheers 4 the confidence lads!

i take it the steering racks in the way then!? can that not be moved slightly?...

...and dont say to the left hand side!

[--alpina--]

LOL, dude, didnt you read what i wrote about TAX, your getting shafted by the HM customs and you aint even got the manni yet and already your planning to modify something that should have been for the RHD in the first place!! oi del boy saw you comming on this one geezer LOOOL


jimi

[Rupe30]

Chill out, i have got the 'manni'! no point in crying about the tax issue coz if its gonna happen its gonna happen! i wanna know if i can make it work! jeeeesus!

[--alpina--]

looooooool goodluck in fitment..



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[ed325i]

wanna know if i can make it work! jeeeesus!

You will have to try and fit to see where/if you have to mod it.

[m-dtech]

id take the manifold along to powerflow or free-flow and get them to mod it for you, doubt it will cost that much mate all the hard stuff has been done.

[Rupe30]

yeh thats what im gonna do - gonna get a iS prop so i can fit the gearbox and get that sorted then fit the exhaust back on to see how it fits.. or doesnt fit as the matter may be! ive got a powerflow system on it so i'l get powerflow to giv me a hand!

[Rupe30]

tax came though... £17.82! dunno where u got £101 from --alpina--! told u it wouldnt be anything to cry about!

something to cry about though... just had a look at the engine with the manifold.. goes pretty much through the stearing linkage.. daaaaaaaammmmmmmn!

any1 know if it can deffinately be modded?

[ed325i]

Have you got a pic ?

[Rupe30]

yea took 1 on my phone, shiny! :

http://img411.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... 597ih7.jpg

[ed325i]

That is very shiny

Looks like you will have to mod the single down pipe to fit round the steering, without seeing it on the car its hard to say.