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After:



I know it's hard to tell from the pics but all that tubing is there because I didn't have a tight enough bend to clear the K-member...anywho...I made the numbers in my sig that way so it must have not been hurting too bad.
So i finally got off my butt and mocked up this C6 manifold set-up i have been thinking about for awhile for the passenger side. I now have a ton of clearance & considerably less piping. This time around i am going to paint and then wrap the tubing as well to keep some more heat in.


I will take some pictures of it installed once i get everything back together.

 

Wow, nice work! That C6 header looks nice. They seem to be equal length?

Glenn

 

COOL nice work. I edited your post so people didn't have to click links...much easier to see the before and after results without clicking links.
J

 

nice. also do you still have AC?

 

cool

 

nice job... sweet flange to that manifold.

yes, his car has the relocated alternator to the passenger top of the engine, keeps the a/c in stock position, and two pusher fans

 

very nice

 

Much better, thanks!


And yes MM is right, still have a/c.

Thanks everyone for the compliments.

 

Thanks. Yes they seem to be fairly close in length and the cylinders merge together nicely inside.

 

Dooo whaaaat!

p.s. you need to take a ride in my car... with the 4l80 man

 

Who are you? David seems to know you, and I know a lot of the same people... That first pic looks like the piping on a DIY kit that a guy I used to know has

Nice work J

 

So you have a truck manifold on one side and this manifold on the other side.....and it retains the A/C???? Well ****, that'll open up a whole new world to the DIY'er who wants to keep the a/c and still go for a nice budget set up Thanks for posting this up, I feel this will be the new hot set up in the near future.

Keep posting pics, can't wait to see the completed pictures.

Jeremy

 

does that have anything running under the K-Member
that looks pretty nice
do you have any photos of it installed from the top

 

why cant you use both vette manifolds?

 

steering shaft would get in the way.

also Darren p. i believe all his pipes run over the kmember

2005 Corvette C6 LS2 exhaust manifold, LH = 12569388
2005 Corvette C6 LS2 exhaust manifold, RH = 12576061

 

so are we sure its a truck manifold on the driver side and a C6 manifold on the passenger side. If so I may have to try this setup next.

 

im with him ^^

 

the one that he took off looks like a stock 01/02 f-body piece

 

The set-up that i have been running for a year now is:
Stock '98 passenger side manifold flipped around on the driver's side....so it clears the steering shaft nicely but the alt does have to go up top.
Stock '02 Ls1 camaro/firebird passenger manifold on the passenger side in the original location...which is why i had to fab up the mess of tubing you see in the first pic....but it seemed to work because as i said, it made the numbers/ET in my sig.

Now i am running the same pass '98 manifold on the driver side (it is pretty restrictive but seems to work) and the passenger side C6 manifold on the passenger side which eliminated all that tubing.

Stevemilz: you can run both manifolds in their original orientations but it won't work for me on the driver side because of where i have my DP.

Yes, and thanks Smokin, all pipes are over the K-member (I did under once, will NEVER do it again) and still retains the A/C.
The one big problem with my set-up is having to use pusher fans....they seem to cool it ok but just not the right way to do it.....so I've been thinking about ways to switch back.

On another note, if anyone has or knows where i can find a '98 aftermarket (tubular) manifold please let me know. I don't like using this multilayer, non-good flowing manifold.

And one more thing since i am on my soap box....I wish turbo manufacturers would just make/sell their kits around an aftermarket K-member....when you are spending $6K+, what's another $200-$400 when it makes for much better routing/flowing kits, evens out the turbo kit's weight and is easier to work around. If i was any good at making a tubular manifold, i think i could really make a nice kit with stock location for alt & fans.

Thanks for all the compliments guys!

 

looks great man. Will it make more power?