Poor man mods

[Celtic Clamper]

I had some time to kill, with no spare cash to burn. I had a cracked stock manifold, and had to replace it with another stock manifold due to no extra funds. So... I ported the manifold. I can tell you that it spools faster and its a felt difference. I can't tell you any dyno numbers. But its enough to feel the difference. I was kind of leery, but glad I did it. I removed alot of meat from the manifold at the turbo flange and at the block side of the manifold. Maybe many of you have done this, but I hadn't really heard about it due to everyone just buying high end manifolds.

 

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Sorry if there are multiple pics of the same thing. I am not a tech savvy guy.

 

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[ed9824v]

nice job good to know

 

[Cummins12V98]

VERY COOL!

 

[tomblue01]

Definitely cool!
What kind of carbide bits did you use? Did you clean up the threads by re-tapping?

 

[Celtic Clamper]

Definitely cool!
What kind of carbide bits did you use? Did you clean up the threads by re-tapping?

Not sure about what brand, but they chewed through it no problem. I tapped all the holes available in the block, and added a pyro hole in the manifold.