FTO AUSTRALIA

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 ?

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.

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 ?

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

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

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

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.

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!!

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

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

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