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Slowxr6t · 07/05/25 06:26 AM

@hjtrbo and whoever wants to know haha, I disassembled my car, dump off heatsheilds off, gate off, turbo and manifold off together and found my new Artec manifold has a pretty badly warped flange, its 12mm thick and still warped, with a straight edge lying on it, I can get a 1.4mm thick steel ruler in both ends, more so the firewall end, and theres soot marks blown thru the sides, pretty ugly! Im surprised it sealed as well as it did, it must have pulled in at the ends a bit when it was bolted up on car. I contacted the retailer and sent them photos of it all and they have contacted Artec to try get a replacement manifold. Pretty damn disapointing but hey welcome to motorsport! If they dont come to the party I might go for a 6 boost or Sinco.

Also my sump is still leaking and with manifold off we can see pretty much whole area where leak is. We cant tell where its coming from and it almost looks like the sump is porous and its soaking through the alluminium. Is that even possible??? Weve just resealed the *beep* of a thing back on and its exactly the same as before.

**hjtrbo** · 07/05/25 07:00 AM

Clean the sump and block with brake clean then hit it with talcum powder. It should point you in the right direction.

Slowxr6t · 07/05/25 07:25 AM

Cheers for that

Slowxr6t · 27/06/25 04:05 AM

So I took dump, waste gate screamer, heat sheilds and water and oil lines off turbo, removed manifold and turbo as one piece and found bad exhaust leaks on both ends of the Artec manifold. It was still all done up tight and couldnt come loose because I had atomic anchorlox nuts holding it on. Manifold flange is badly warped, banana ed. Very disappointing. Anyway I rang the retailer and they got hold of Artec and lots of photos and emails later Artec sent me a brand new manifold, this one has a flat flange, I checked it. I didnt check the first one when I first got it but it didnt leak until 1500ish kms. So iv installed it all again, I bought new Tinnix inconel studs and new atomic anchorlox nuts and its all go again. I had to send my old warped manifold back. Thankyou Artec for coming to the party.