Blown Motor, Engine Rebuild/Replacement.

COSMO

Thanks chuck I will check on it because I have no faith gtm will do the right thing and send me another manifold... I should just stick a stock motor back in there and sell my built motor and go buy a gtr....

TerribleONE

Good luck man.

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jwick

Some of the GTRs have turbo-manifold issues too. A guy at the office busted a bolt on the turbo-manifold connection. Motor had to be dropped to fix it. Shop quoted him 24hrs of labor.

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Chuck33079

24 hrs of labor plus GTR tax had to be a fortune.

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Chuck33079

You'll get it handled. It'll be better than before. It's just a shitty process. Boost withdrawal may cause depression. Most doctors would prescribe scotch, a cigar and yelling profanity at the car.

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elperuano

So the block itself is still good? The manifolds have cracked. Sharpbycoop reported it but didn't seem affect his built block and he banged on it hard. Course it doesn't excuse it.
Good luck buddy.

COSMO

So this is what my afternoon ended up with.
Can u say PAR-TAY!!!

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Chuck33079

So you've decided to yell at the car in Spanish?

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G37sHKS

I really hope the new manifold will eliminate the crack issue or else whats the point? :\\

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SharpByCoop

After disassembly, I found my RH exh manfold had a thin crack. I never felt a loss or heard it. I don't think it mattered to the performance at that stage. However to sell the kit I simply purchased a new one and considered that part of the cost of selling it. (Which must have helped the sale.)

Certainly not a good design. Bracing may help? Not sure what the cause of the crack, it may have been excess load from a turbo's weight, or it may have not had enough room for expansion?

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COSMO

Well crap my thing is since they don't give a shiat about their exhaust manifold cracking if I buy another it will just do the same thing and do nothing but get worse over time. Call me crazy but I may give tony a call at FI to see if he could sell me only the parts I need with his TT kit and just go with that..

esfourteen

had the same idea but Tony said it's a no go, which is understandable given they are atill working on fulfilling orders. I'm pretty confident it won't crack again with this support, but if it ever cracks to the point of a leak I'll just get my shop to build me a set

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COSMO

Hey man where have you been? Thanks for the input, we really should not even be going through this crap after spending so much money... I'm sure sam would come up with some kind of excuse for his exhaust manifolds CRACKING....

Ron

I am considering the same thing. Maybe we can reuse our GTM intercooler and and buy just piping, manifolds, downpipes and misc items from Tony? Piping to IC would have to be modified but how hard can that be?

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elperuano

That's a good idea. Maybe just the manifolds? Maybe the turbos too