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Old 03-01-2005, 04:46 AM
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Default Dahlback manifold users..... impressions please?!

Thinking of going that road shortly or EH-ing the stock intake manifold. Curious as to user impressions as I've seen a few people with boost issues that have these installed. Is the ooomp worth the extra cash? I currently run Steve's Stage 3 ModShack Inuction Tuning System (TTDA, Bamm, BM) and am GIAC chipped.
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Default Search for hottubs post on it. His dyno testing showed it to be hardly worth it. He even lost torque

with it installed.
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Hit the lottery? Nobody yet has proven much of a benefit...
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I think the EH is the way to go cost vs. performance
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Default Go EH...or better yet, with all the induction and boost-related mods you have done>>

I'd start opening up the exhaust tract if I were you.

If you do go with an extrude honed intake manifold, the best thing you can do would be to try to get another 5 or so people here to go in on a group buy with you, you can knock 30% off of retail. If you want to do that, contact me for details.
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Default John - are you still 'waiting' to EH? I'm in the market for >

an FMIC, and may be interested in EH'ing the 225 mani before I install.
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Default Are there any benefits to getting an extrude honed intake manifold? ->>

Or is it a waste of money?
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Default I have both, can't notice difference in performance between them. :-/

Dahlback Intake Manifold:

<img src="http://images7.fotki.com/v129/photos/1/131515/890561/PC110238-vi.jpg">
<img src="http://images7.fotki.com/v130/photos/1/131515/890561/PC110242-vi.jpg">
<img src="http://images8.fotki.com/v131/photos/1/131515/890561/PC110243-vi.jpg">
<img src="http://images8.fotki.com/v132/photos/1/131515/890561/PC110245-vi.jpg">
<img src="http://images7.fotki.com/v129/photos/1/131515/890561/PC110241-vi.jpg">

OEM Extrude Hone:

<img src="http://images5.fotki.com/v72/photos/1/131515/890561/f8e5432b_jpg_orig-vi.jpg">
<img src="http://images5.fotki.com/v72/photos/1/131515/890561/f8e5432d_jpg_orig-vi.jpg">
<img src="http://images5.fotki.com/v73/photos/1/131515/890561/f8e5432a_jpg_orig-vi.jpg">
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Default Nope, both my EH manifolds are on>>

Hey Will, didn't recognize the new sig and SN!

I ended up getting my stock 180 manny EH'd. I decided that a FMIC or the dual SMIC setup from a 225 was not in my immediate future, so I upgraded the stock manny.

But if you are doing that, and you need the manifold I still have a nicely-EH'd 225 unit. My brother out in CA has it actually - he was cleaning up the ports for me. I wll get him to finally send it back if you would like to go that route. E-mail me about it if you want.

John
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Default A flow-bench test showed an average cfm improvement

at each port of about 14%, I think. I have an Excel chart that MoBlueTT did. I believe the VAG-COM users also showed improved flow. Subjectively, I felt like it gained some power, which was most noticeable over 6K rpm.


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