I have a 2003 wrx and was thinking of either getting the manifold crinkle painted red/blue or polished and was after pics please reason for blue is due to aem induction kit the piping is blue

 

im thinking of doin the same to my 02 wrx . blue matches car but red is sti look which is cool ? or heat wrap ? some of the high temp rattle cans are **** though and ur quite limited to colour and finish too !

 

I'm getting ready to do mine but I'm in 2 minds, do I go for red, STI style, or do I go black. I already have blue hoses and I'm going to paint my intercooler pipework black - if I go red I'll leave the blue hoses, but if I go black I'll eventually change all the hoses to red starting with the intercooler ones when I paint the pipes

 

Here's a polished one...

 

That looks spot-on, but I've had enough of polished kit after doing my last intercooler

 

i just brought this to do mine soon ,
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...#ht_2123wt_982

 

Silver scooby sport, where did you get the polished alternator from???


Here is mine done in candy red

 

I did the throttle body and alternator myself Steve, re the alternator I polished it intact rather than stripping it down. I started lightly with a scotchbrite mop then a series off polishong mops to finish.

 

nice work,plenty of elbow grease

 

How much power does the milk carton add, Steve?

Richie Wong has some alloy brake and clutch reservoir caps that I think he may be selling, add some extra bling.

 

polished looks sweet how would i go about this ? i would like to do it myself whilst my engine has been stripped

 

I used this guide when I did my polishing - you can get the kits cheap on ebay and they work okay

http://www.poleringsguide.se/english/

 

That's brilliant was this done by hand?

I know its going to be serious hard work but the results will well worth it

 

You need loads of power before you can even consider this mod

 

lmao i wanted to say sommat like that lol,steve are you actually getting any water out the overflow ?

 

painted one

 

Peter, A little but not much, a proper mod will be sorted in time

 

amazing mate cheers for the help gonna polish everything now

 

I thought that, and after hours of work got bored and gave up

 

Steve, what inlet is that, looks spot on

And where did you get it coated along with your other bits

 

lol i will succeed

 

Stevie1982, Its a Magnus inlet and I bought it from Litchfields years ago. Paul from Zen originally powder coated the parts but as the bay has changed Steven Darley has sorted the other bits out

 

Nice manifold they are,prefer them to the cosworth one.

Steve you got the tyre ok matey ?

 

Yup, its still in the van as I couldn't I couldn't be bothered to take it out

 

Bet it lives in the van till you get a puncture lol.

spme pics of my spec-c mani,work in progress,was polishing it but its too much hasstle and i was never gonna be happy with it so ill probs wrinkle red or black it.





Totally de-seamed and de-lugged amoungst many other custom weld ons etc.

 

Don't paint it just keep polishing it, I bet your polishing it tonight when your home alone Paint it as a last resort.

 

Ok excuse my stupid question here but why change it from the STD to the Magnus one or any after market one?

What benefits are they or what gains do you get?

And sorry last one lol but at what point does it need to be changed ie is it a power point thing or what

Thanks

 

stevie1982, I changed it to the Magnus as at the time there wasn't many available and it helps with top end power but realistically you don't need to worry about the manifold till your at 600bhp and above

 

lmao,its not here its at work ya sod.
Too many litle imporfections in it steve for me to polish it i have serious ocd,and its impossible to get in all the tight bits so i'd never be happy with it.
So far this bloody mani has had roughlt 60 hours spent on it lol.

As steve said there is no real gain to changing the stock inlet mani bit it does look **** loads better.

Thats why i went for the spec-c mani being 1 piece looks loads neater,probably splitting farts but every little helps when your trying to extract every last fookin horse out lmao.

 

I wasn't on about the manifold but now I have had to explain myself the fun goes out of the double meaning