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?

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..

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?

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

Maybe the whole kit to call it FI turbo kit :D

You'd have to get the turbos as well. They're v-band housings if I remember correctly. You'd be better off having new manifolds fabbed up.

Didn't gtm come out with the new housings that can be upgraded with the stage 2 kit?

:rofl2:

They made a thread about them. I'm sure they'll take your money for them. As far as when you'll get them, who knows. :roflpuke2:

No I don't think you need to change the turbos if youre upgrading to V3 manifolds

I spoke with Sam about about this and all we need is

V3 Manifold
New housing from Garret (T25 Plus)
New Downpipes
New intercooler pipes
New two piece intercooler (optional)

Sounds like a good upgrade but then, if the crack keeps coming I see no reason to upgrade. I strongly demand that Sam@GTM beat the **** out of the test car with the new manifold on track for 14 days in raw then check and see if there is crack or not then improve from there.

Would suck to do all that just to have the manifolds still crack.
So we're just stuck with this problem

Not yet. only time will tell. Im talking about V3 manifolds.
So basically we're not sure if we are stuck or not LOL

What I can't believe is spending almost 10k and just after a year later having FAILED parts from a FAILING company.. If they had any dignity or respect for what they do you would think they would do the right thing and atleast send us new manifolds. I want to post my findings on the group buy thread but I know the admins would only protect gtm.... Gotta love politics.

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

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....

GTM you suck @SS!!!!!!!!!!! And if the moderators do read this I speak of experience. They should be banned from selling anything from this site so others that are thinking of using them won't..