Hell yeahhh! Turning out AWESOME! Make sure you put some heat shielding around the areas near the turbo manifold! Maybe even around the mani itself if you really want to keep engine bay temperatures down!

Loving this. I have ZERO interest in doing this with my 996 but I’m really enjoying watching you figure this stuff out and bend the metal to your will.

that's the craziest manifold ive ever seen wow

It’s funny, I was watching your other vid of you building the exhaust for the Porsche engine and I saw a link of ‘someone putting a Honda engine in a 996’. I thought well that’s interesting/different but I also kinda rolled my eyes lol🤧. Then I see this vid. As I’m watching I recall seeing a classified for a 996 in need of engine for 14k. I’m not particularly familiar with Honda engines but I know they can make pretty good power for the size & cost. Definitely cheaper than putting a Porsche turbo engine in! Pretty cool, got me hooked and def opened my eyes/mind!! I love watching a welding project come to get her and lookin at nice welds🤤.

That manifold turned out really nice. It's going to be very capable and I suspect a lot of this work will pay dividends when tuning it since it will be fairly efficient. Definitely make sure to have your heat shields in the right spots and to keep cold air going into that filter, as that will help a bunch (Jeremy has shown this many times about keeping things cool). I've seen a 10% change in airflow going into my N/A E36 M3 when changing the intake air temperature by 30 degrees C.

Insane build! Love it!

How has that held up. I've seen similar work on other channels, but they suggest that if you don't back purge, the world comes to an end. That looks really nice, especially for something done at home.

Really great looking manifold. Awesome job.

thats 1 wild looking start to the hot side cant wait to see it perform.

Great work, man!

Looks very nice! well done sir!

Now I want one!!

That's a serious manifold, looks great. If you want to reduce the chance of it cracking at the engine flange, add a support from the turbo to the engine on the bottom, a single rod will do the job and prevent most of the stress the weight of the manifold, wastegates and turbo put on the engine side flange. You used nice thick piping which should hold just fine, but the support will add insurance/longetivity and is a simple solution.

This series is going to take off! 🚀

Man that is insanely good! Absolutely awesome skills 👍🏼 Top job man. Looking forward to the next one. Logan

Nice and clean

Great content thanks for sharing

I wish I had a drop of your talent, so cool 👍 can't wait for the next video 🤜🤛

Looking great, just remember to have some time of flex joint between the gates and the exhaust. Will help with longevity of cracking also a lot easier to remove and install each time having that extra movement.

That manifold is gorgeous

Should be fun when it’s done👍

Always good vids. Keep them coming?

Equal length doesn't matter, having the runners as straight as possible is what you should focus on.

Hi, enjoying watching you build this monster. Is there any chance you could build an aluminum expansion tank to replace stock setup in a stock 996? Big market. Your thoughts on this would be insightful. Thank you so much.

Canada represent

I really hope this exhaust manifold works on Nick Kayman project. I'd buy it in a hot minute.

Really enjoying the build. I'm thinking about swapping a K24 into my Porsche 951 so have been learning a lot from you. One question is I noticed you're not back purging the pipes when welding. I'm just learning tig but thought that was important for stainless. Keep the videos coming!

All you need is some gold matting round the engine bay and wrap the headers with heatmatt, sick build ben ive been watching from the start when you built fasterproms smart"K"art. I was very impressed with your fab skills. Easy 500 bold Eagles. @pfi Brent needs to tune it for you when he's down at Kyle's or at cleetus shop.

DEI titanium wrap or the embossed aluminum heat shield would be rad.

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Hey just a note. I would run the turbo with the inlet and filter facing the back of the car. It’s going to help with the heat of the dump pipe running into the Intercooler and the cold pipe from running over the hot down pipe. And looking at where you can run your exhaust pipe it then can be run around and out the left side away from the cold side. What do you think?

With the lack of space for the cam cover, I'm wondering why you couldn't have done a custom oil pan? The thing looks thick and it would lower the engine quite a lot.

dont you think that turbo manifold will get hot enough to melt the plastic coolant tank?

No problem to run twin scroll with a single wastegate. Just make the wastegate pipes divided all the way in to the valve

Why not do an air to water intercooler in the old muffler space?

I am an absolute noob so you probably know better than me. Mostly mentioning it so that maybe I can learn something. 😁 But don't you want the wastegate to be mounted at a tear drop angle, I.e., less than 90 degrees? So the gas has an easier time being diverted into the waste gate?