Kraken cast turbo manifold? ? Any good?

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Re: Kraken cast turbo manifold? ? Any good?

Postby mx589 » Fri Oct 30, 2020 9:49 pm

So $900 Aussie for exhaust
And $480 extra for shipping to your door?

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Re: Kraken cast turbo manifold? ? Any good?

Postby StanTheMan » Mon Nov 02, 2020 11:22 am

mx589 wrote:So $900 Aussie for exhaust
And $480 extra for shipping to your door?


perhaps I was a little unclear

480 Euro dollars = 799 AUD in todays FX
Pay Pal takes 4% so that's another $32 roughly..... so we are talking $831.00 in today Fx. Fx 4 weeks ago? unsure, reasonably similar I would dare guess

I paid $180 for postage to have the manifold & Dump pipe send originally 12 mths ago. I don't recall if that was Euro $$ or AUD $$. But he didn't charge me any extra to have the kit sent with exhaust pip, 12 months after originally ordering just the low-mount manifold & 3# dump pipe.

I hope Ive made that clear
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Re: Kraken cast turbo manifold? ? Any good?

Postby ManiacLachy » Mon Nov 02, 2020 3:28 pm

beavis wrote:

Hey beavis, I was just wondering if you'll do some sort of comparison between the old and new setups?

I realise you've self-limited the power for track reliability so more power wouldn't be a meaningful metric, but I wonder if you're able to compare boost threshold/spool before and after, maybe this new setup will make the same power on lower boost, etc? And, how this relates to what matters for you, on-track performance?

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Re: Kraken cast turbo manifold? ? Any good?

Postby mx589 » Mon Nov 02, 2020 8:04 pm

stan the man
i understand now
$180 for parcell that size in shipping is a good price

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Re: Kraken cast turbo manifold? ? Any good?

Postby shirtz » Fri Dec 18, 2020 2:33 am

ManiacLachy wrote:
beavis wrote:

Hey beavis, I was just wondering if you'll do some sort of comparison between the old and new setups?

I realise you've self-limited the power for track reliability so more power wouldn't be a meaningful metric, but I wonder if you're able to compare boost threshold/spool before and after, maybe this new setup will make the same power on lower boost, etc? And, how this relates to what matters for you, on-track performance?


Also very interested in this. I was going to pull the trigger on a low mount manifold but not sure if it's worth the extra maintenance difficulty in a lowish power application

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Re: Kraken cast turbo manifold? ? Any good?

Postby shirtz » Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:58 pm

And he is giving it away! I guess we will never know


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