| The stock 350Z manifolds will be subject to the identical thermal and stress loads as any turbocharged engine and in fact would be more likely to fail prematurely as the cast iron for N/A manifolds applications is of a very different specification to that of cast turbo manifolds (turbo manifolds are cast in a ni Resist iron with very high nickel content approx 45% nickel and designed to cope with extreme exhaust gas temperature of around 1800 to 2000 F). Exhaust manifolds on N/A engines are designed to cope with exhaust gas temperature of around 1400 F.....................N/A manifolds when ustilised in a turbo application are going to fail for sure..............it's simply a question of when not if. Please don't take the above comments as criticism as this is not my intention and I believe that the single turbo approach is a very viable option if engineered to the required standard............it's just that the stock nissan manifolds will not cope (will fail it's only a question of time) with the high exhaust gas temperature in a turbocharged application.
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