Mivec Turbo Owners Please Read ...

barfy · Post by **barfy** » Sun May 07, 2006 9:16 pm

I was wondering can the stock headers be modified to be used as the exhaust intake manifold ??

Spoke to a guy here in adelaide who owns a shop that only put turbos on N/A cars and he said he should beable to modify the stock headers ...

Anyone pulled this off ?

Post by **Bennoz** » Mon May 08, 2006 10:54 am

You wont be able to modify anything on stock headers - they are made of cast iron. Plumbing piping off them is another story, there's every chance that could be done.

barfy · Post by **barfy** » Mon May 08, 2006 11:32 am

Bennoz wrote:You wont be able to modify anything on stock headers - they are made of cast iron. Plumbing piping off them is another story, there's every chance that could be done.

Yeah sorry thats what i meant, u think its possible ?

Post by **Bennoz** » Mon May 08, 2006 12:04 pm

Cant see why not... my only concern would be heat retention in the cast iron.

to4garret · Post by **to4garret** » Mon May 08, 2006 12:05 pm

i did it, no worries

it was on a VR4, so the motors around the wrong way, but you should be able to adapt the idea.

pics are here.
http://groups.msn.com/to4garret/shoebox.msnw

barfy · Post by **barfy** » Mon May 08, 2006 12:14 pm

Bennoz wrote:Cant see why not... my only concern would be heat retention in the cast iron.

Maybe ceramic coat them ? Is that possible with cast iron ?

Ive work out with the guy from this place that parts should be around $5000 and he said there shouldnt be to much labour

He sounds pretty confident he turbos the Gen 3 engines and basically does custom turbos all day everyday

Might beable to talk him into making a bolt on Turbo kit

bigpitty1 · Post by **bigpitty1** » Tue May 09, 2006 8:25 pm

You should be able to get the stock cast manifolds coated in the HPC coating, its probably be better if you got the RPW extractors modified.

Post by **Bennoz** » Tue May 09, 2006 8:32 pm

barfy wrote:Might beable to talk him into making a bolt on Turbo kit

Lots of people talk about it... if you can do it, I'll give you... I dunno! something really good!!

barfy · Post by **barfy** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:06 pm

well i officially have the funds, just wondering what an engineer report would cost after turboing ??

Nacho · Post by **Nacho** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:02 am

Hey if you find an engineer let me know.........

barfy · Post by **barfy** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:52 am

So all you guys with turboed FTO are they registered as a turbo ? Just wondering the best way around it