Hindsight is always 20/20. From these rough finish and poor casting pictures, would it not have been cheaper to create a two piece CNC cut manifold? I have an engineering buddy in manufacturing who said the cost of molds are expensive even in China. I would expect a better looking/performing product given the price of the product, the quality of the mold, and the quality of the aluminum used. Throw this product in front of a GTR crowd, AMG, or RS crowd and you'd be laughed at.

Doesn't seem to be doing that well in front of the 370Z crowd at this point either.

Forced induction dyno graph comparison has been posted for some time now.

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Dyno sheet will be available next year, be patient lol

On stock engine (N.A.), is there no gain?

there has been no Dyno's done on NA engine yet

What's up with the quality control with Altered Atmospher.... I mean AAM Competition? If any of those flaps break down, then yes that is going into your motor and ruining it. :shakes head:

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Received my intake. Upon closer inspection I cannot find any fault with the quality. It does look stunning. It's relatively light weight too: 5785 gramshttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...ee6bf5e4ca.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...502d6f43db.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f4c895165e.jpg


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That looks much better than the previous pics. Do you think they're cleaning them up a little more before shipping now?

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Looks good!! As it should :) mine is still getting the cleaning/polishing treatment.

No wonder they charge $600 to powdercoat it - that's a lot of work to go from that rough piece posted earlier to a finished product like that one. Looks good though.

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Also, i should give credit where it's due. The red ceramic coating and carbon inserts were free of charge for the very long wait. I do appreciate this.
Thanks Patrick@AAM and Adrian@Torqen


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Most welcome, René! Thanks for your patience!

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2 little things would of make this thing better...

1) The machining on the engine side should not be scratched up. I'm assuming you received it that way. If I'm buying something new I want to see nice fresh machine marks with no scratches. They could easily put a piece of tape on that surface before removing from the mill to protect it and keep it perfect.

2) The port matching should be better. You've already have it chucked on the mill. I'm assuming they put the bolt holes in it at that time. Why not finish the runners and make them more port-matched.

The red powder coat looks really good!

Red does look good, would much rather see the CF inserts embedded into the PC rather then glued on top... glued on strips seems cheap and will be prone to peeling IMO

Well a couple of them look great, guess its luck of the draw..

I'd bet folding money that they're taking a little more time to cleanup casting flash and stuff after the response in this thread. :rofl2:

Progress on polishing this thing https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d39d71cafb.jpg

Now that's going to take some elbow grease.

Polishing is done, now to be sent to EPS Tuning for port-matching with throttle bodies :)

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looks good

Nice

Nice!:tup:

Now if we could only get AAM to ship them that way lol, looks good brother

Agree. AAM should be looking at selling (or have it included) a polished option.

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The beauty is in. The fact that the EVAP valve?, or whatever it is that's mounted at the back end of the plenum, is laterally offset by 38mm in my RHD, and now at this LHD-design plenum, stretches the plug harness to its very limit, plus, the attached vac line needed to be cut short by 38mm.

The MAP sensor location is also not OEM but here the harness reaches just fine once some stock tape is removed and the harness slightly re-routed. Apart from that all fits fine.

Finally, the two front breather hoses needa be shortened cos the barbed fittings are non-stock location. But no drama at all.

Noteworthy, one flange bolt is virtually inaccessible and a PITA to torque down because there's too little head room for a torque wrench with 1/4" extension bar plus swivel joint with socket with a 6mm bit, which is needed for these M8 Allen-bolts. One could get a 6mm Allen key in position but then there'd be no way of measuring torqe and the key would still interfere with the two vac&coolant hard lines, so they'd have to be removed. In the end I placed a 6mm bit into this one bolt and cumbersomely hand-tightened it with a 1/4" spanner that sloted onto the bit sideways.
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PS: the brass fittings were a tad tricky at first. I re-tapped all threads and all was good. (Probably cause of the ceramic coating). No biggy for me, I had all the tools. I applied PTFE tape to the threads for better seal. Didnt want to use liquid thread sealant in case I want to make use of the currently blanked spare vac ports in the future.

Bottom line, take some time and it's a simple enough DIY job.


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So how does the car feel after installing it? Although, of course, a dyno would be best...

Awesome

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I havent got the chance to fire up the car yet. Im currently finishing off the installation of Torqen S coilovers with Stanceparts Air Cups. And with a baby I only get a couple of hours on weekends to indulge in garage time. Plus, the space confinement in my garage (see above) makes even a body turn-round an acrobatic act each time

Did you sand it by hand or did u used a special sanding machine or did you took it some were for that, also do I have to send mine to eps I also bought the eps throttle body's but I didn't know I need to send them y thought they would fit just like that

The polishing was done by Synergy Composites in Indianapolis. With respect to the throttle bodies and port matching, I recommend you reach out to EPS Tuning, they are very quick at responding msg's and their customer service is top-notch! I'm very sure they will take care of you.

Just wondering, why not have them port-matched at Synergy since you had the manifold there being polished? I had him port match my upper/lower manifolds along with the billet adapter for the EPS TBs to the upper intake manifold.

Bro can you please tell me how to contact synergy composites, and also ca you tell me how much did it cost, i planned to do mine by my self but is to much work and i havent had the time i been working a lot at my job also if i do it by hand y dont think i'll be able to get a finish that looks that pro, so i would like to send mine

yea I've talk to the guys from eps before, they are cool they have an excellent customer service they even recommend some one to tune my car here in CALI, i haven't done it i because y haven't install anything yet because i want to sand and polish my manifold first so i put everything at the same time (intake, throotle bodys and manifold) i will message them ones i polish my manifold.

Thanks for the answer bro.

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No reason in particular, didn't know they could've done it too.

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My recommendation is to reach out to them (links in the post above) , Shawn will most definitely take care of you.

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More details on the setup with this manifold HERE

Any news yet? Gains? Losses?

There is lots of news in this debacle of a thread that you obviously didn't read. I doubt they're actually going to post evidence of power loss from a product they had to take pre-orders for to R&D the damn thing...