I wish it was that easy. You have to use an abrasive stone to get a decent smoothness out of the aluminum. There is alot of pits from these being cast in sand. Then, you start with the coarse sand paper on a mandrel using a die grinder. Then you move to a more fine sand paper. The last few steps is with some cutting oil and my "top secret" sand paper. Lastly, I throw it on the buffing wheel with some polishing compound. There's alot of steps and of course you have to have some patience. I'm sure there are other methods that may be easier, but I've always done it this way and the finish is beautiful. You should see a cylinder head when I'm done with it.

 

That is one beautiful turbo. I think you should post pics of each part you finish. Good job

 

Thanks! I can definately post some pics. I'm working on the exhaust manifold now. It's tedious work cutting the welds without screwing up the tubes. Hopefully I will be done in a couple days.

 

here is the manifold so far:

 

another turbo pic. It's all being put back together now that polishing is done.

Also john just got an Evo 9 10.5 hot side

 

looks nice

 

very nice very nice

 

john sent me some more pics of his progress on the manifold

 

^ you guys want to do my manifold?

 

Well, it wouldn't be cost effective to try and cut up manifolds and reweld them to sell. The only reason why we're doing it now is one will be Crypto's for his turbo kit and the other will be shipped to a company for mass production. It would be cheaper for the consumer this way. The whole idea is to make it affordable.

 

So wait, crypto's getting one I know. What's this about another manifold going to another company for mass production. Will there be another company selling turbo manifolds for the lancer sometime?

 

Yes

 

pic of the manifold runners and flange almost lined up

 

you guys knows aprox. how much one would cost?

 

Great job for helping out the community on this. Wish you were around for the 3G era. I had to reengineer a ss evo 8 mani to work with my project 3yrs ago.

So i assume your going to have starter clearances etc already taken care of?