What did you do to your Polo today?

[ilz]

Thanks for that!

I'm guessing you had to use the VW keys to take the whole radio out and plug it in like that??

yes - another supercheap ebay purchase

Volkswagen Polo 2008 Onwards Removal PC5 132 X4 Keys Releasa Headunit Radio | eBay

[Bullet Fast]

I laid across the engine for three hours fitting the franken manifold to the car and the f21t to the manifold. What an absolute ball ache. Spent the whole time with a work light and makeup mirror. There's like 15 nuts... Three hours. Jeesus. If I ever have to take it off, I'm thinking about pulling the head.

[vwthunder]

I laid across the engine for three hours fitting the franken manifold to the car and the f21t to the manifold. What an absolute ball ache. Spent the whole time with a work light and makeup mirror. There's like 15 nuts... Three hours. Jeesus. If I ever have to take it off, I'm thinking about pulling the head.

Three hours
Actually i dont think that is too bad, I kept the standard manifold on when i saw the quality of the franken one.
It took us a very long long day just to get the turbo on !!!!

[VWindahouse]

Now is probably a bad time to tell you there a zero performance gain with the FT manifold over the stock Ko3. Sorry dude!

[vwthunder]

Now is probably a bad time to tell you there a zero performance gain with the FT manifold over the stock Ko3. Sorry dude!

I think the JBS manifold would be the way to go

[h100vw]

I think the JBS manifold would be the way to go

It would certainly be easier to fit! Getting more expensive as the AUD falls though

[Bullet Fast]

My stock one was cracked. Figured I had nothing to lose

[VWindahouse]

My stock one was cracked. Figured I had nothing to lose

Except some skin by the sounds of things

Jimmy will never forgive me for putting him through that ordeal as mine is a bit chunkier and also needed some scalloping on top of everything else.

[Bullet Fast]

I can't imagine it getting much worse. I probably should have milled out the pockets for the nuts so I could get a socket on them. Not sure if its going to work out in even the remotest, but I'm going to try and design a new manifold. I'm hunting down a metal sintering printer at the moment to cost a prototype. The latest SLS printers can print at 90% density, so 304/314 stainless is certainly possible in impossible shapes, galleries etc. it'll be a fun design exercise if nothing if else. Here's a RE shot of the franken manifold in RapidForm RE aka Geomagic Design X.

[VWindahouse]

Nice mate, don't forget the runner separator in the collector like the OEM manifold. Badger Bill has done a heap of testing on back to back manifolds like the FT, Kinetic, JBS and OEM manifold and found a ported stock manifold performed just as well but had superior pulse scavenging due to the separator iirc.