Churtz

Anyone noticed how there's virtually none of these for sale these days?! Used to be all over the place....I have to keep bloody fixing mine when it warps.... All these skims it'll soon be non existent!! Haha.

Just can't stand it blowing. Surely people still use them for cheap zetec turbo builds?!

Rant Over.

Smidydevil

Surely it's easier and cheaper to drill the head to fit the cvh manifould. ? Or buy a zetec manifould flange and have it welded onto you cvh one rather than messing about with adaptor plates?

Johnny Knoxville

Drill and tapp the head and get rid of the plate

Churtz

The heads on the engine though....and I don't fancy drilling and tapping while it's still on there!! Haha.

the_frozen_one

iTrader: (1)

Ferriday still do em, probably the best ones about too

Churtz

Yeah I might give ferraday a call tomorrow and see how much they do them for now.

Karlos G

iTrader: (4)

Drilling, tapping and welding easier than just bolting on?! lol
Drilling the head breaks into an oilway and can be a twat to get to seal so not ideal.

Adapter plate is the easiest route for less than confident people and works 100% of the time... You can't fuck it up! lol

Churtz

Confidence isn't an issue.....laziness in taking the head off is an issue!!! Haha.

And welding a cast manifold to a steel zetec flange is hard to get right without the cast going brittle!

QplateRST!

Focus rs manifold with t3 adaptor plate

studabear

would you the need a custom down pipe?

Churtz

Yeah....the rs turbo won't work on that manifold as it sits at a different angle. Would need custom elbow (with waste gate) and custom downpipe.

crazycage

more and more people are fitting proper manifolds

rsmark86

iTrader: (3)

Mines drilled and taped and seems fine

CrOwSoN15

Aren't they majorly restrictive?

crazycage

yes but anyone thinking of drilling the head or fitting adaptors wont be after big power so should be fine imo

rsmark86

iTrader: (3)

As crazy cage says, if fitting the adaptor plates or rst manifolds it would most likely be for a budget build

Mine has the HO inlet set up with rst exhaust manifold but I will never reach the limit they can flow because I'm on stock rods so I'm limited to around 240/250bhp

But if I was chasing numbers it would have a frs tubular manifold and gt30 fitted and area six inlet