For anyone curious about this manifold, I purchased one flanged for a t3 and it should arrive some time next week. I paid $258 shipped to my door so you cannot beat the price. All other options for GT series turbo's require that I purchase the turbo from either ATP or Forced Performance (custom turbine housings) so that it mates to a DSM turbo flanged manifold. I personally like the idea of getting an off the shelf Garrett turbo as it will cost me considerably less. I will take some pics when it arrives and give you my initial opinion.

are you making your own downpipe???

If its flanged for dsm style turbos, you could also use precision dsm style turbos also.

Here is the pic of the manifold. It is t3 flanged and flanged for a Tial 38mm wastegate. I will fabricate my own 3" SS downpipe. I can also send it to a buddies shop and have a jig made for anyone else who wants to run this setup. I will probably opt for a GT3076 over the 50-trim.

yea but will it place the turbo close enough to the drive side to fabricate a downpipe without hitting the AC?

Well, if I can't run the GT turbine housing I will just swap it for a standard non-GT 4-bolt housing.

If your using a bolt on downpipe flange I doubt your gonna squeeze a full 3" pipe in there between the turbo and the A/C compressor. What I had to do was use a 2.5" stainless bend coming off the turbine housing and about 6" down, then I had it flared out to a 3" pipe the entire way back. Doing it this way works well and you wont really sacrifice any significant power. The only way I can see you being able to squeeze a 3" off the turbo is using a V band exhaust housing and the bend would have to be so sharp that it might be more restrictive to flow than a 2.5" pipe with a lesser bend.

240Z def keep us updated, because i'm interested to see how this works out. If you cna post some pics as you do it. Running the 2.5" downpipe at first probably wouldnt really hurt either, especially if you dont recirculate the wastegate.

I am having my guy ship me a GT turbine housing to see if it can be used. The turbine outlet can be cut down on the lathe and a downpipe welded directly to the turbine housing if need be. Not ideal, but a possible solution for a true 3" down pipe. Otherwise I will most likely opt for the standard 4-bolt non-GT housing and initially run a 2.5" downpipe and then expand it to 3 when possible.

I glanced at this, didn't read it in full.

That is the same manifold Turbonetics sells but it is a lot more money through them. Atleast it looks identical.

If it is then we have an 02 housing, dumptube kit for it so you can bolt a 5 bolt T3 housing right on and it will work with any downpipe.

If you wanted just the 02 housing and dumptube kit I'd sell them sepeately, all SS, flanges and all. They'd be $350.

If you don't mind telling me, where did you buy it so cheap? Last one we bought was almost $500.

BTW, the 5-bolt housing does not flow as well as the 4-bolt so I have been told by my distributor. However, I am not sure it would be a big issue.

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They list it for $288.99 shipped.

I think it will depend on which 5 bolt housing you use. Consider that Al went 9.98 on the 5 bolt and Curt ran 9.33 at 150 on the 5 bolt

Thanks for the link.

I have one of these manifolds. will sell for 250shipped. I can also have it ceramic coated for 75 extra if that helps.

Since you have one in hand, what is your impression of the manifold and did you ever mock it on your car?