So a big problem with manis is them cracking? Well, when you have a hefty turbo on it, add in heating and cooling, expanding contracting, whatever whatever. Why not just make a support bracket? Just something to take some weight off the runners.

Like this horrid laptop touchpad paint document.

 

Are you serious? So heat transfer from the turbo to the block has no effect on performance, heat dosent rise, and air has an easier time trying to go down then up. This is what your saying correct?

 

No, im not concerned with the heating of the block, nor the cooling of the turbo.

 

Like dis?


I run my engines off semen and molasses also, it never thins out
PM me when you need a rebuild

 

Must be why you're so slow

How about you PM me when your BMC melts along with your oil drain, and the paint on your hood above your turbo starts discoloring / cracking. The amount of heat transferred fto the block from the turbo is minimal at best.

 

Nice pics! Haven't seen those. Now having seen them, I can't think of one benefit to doing it this way. And these make more power than a traditionally mounted turbo? I can tell you right now that they don't.

The first one is a little crude. It's just an SSAC with the flange hacked off and an EWG added. The second one is pretty sweet, but I just don't see any advantage to it. It's not a shorter route, or better, or worse; just different. And he gets one million vertigo cool points... whatever the exchange rate is on those. And he has a clean setup even though I don't like blue.

So now back on topic, you'll see in the second pic that this manifold uses a similar "giant merge" (tm) design that the original poster used. Personally, I think that this is fine. Even the lowest form of manifold, the log manifold, will still make good power up to a certain point, even with it's fluid-dynamics-nightmare way of moving hot gasses.

 

Agreed here. Air is a great insulator. Plus we're not talking about drastically different turbo locations (save for the GT47 "where my AC compressor goes" mount). So what if the block is seeing 2-300* air on the outside. It's seeing 1600-1800* air on the inside. Plus the block temp is regulated anyways. If you had a water-cooled brake master cylinder, that shit wouldn't melt either.

 

He doesnt get a million vertigo points for being different, he gets a million vertigo points for a more efficient design. Bottom mount has potential for better intercooler piping, less sharp exhaust turns, lower center of gravity, and less shit getting melted. Top mount = for looks only 99% of the time. Kinda like people that slam their cars and change their oil pans like underwear.

 

It looks like you're going to need a pretty sharp bend on the hot pipe to get it past the frame. I'm going to have to say negligible, here.
Judging by the second pic, I'm not seeing any advantage at all. In fact my top mount has similar bends AND a high angle collector as well.
You've got something here. Turbos are heavy. But we're really down to bench race, er, handling here.
OK now you're dreaming. If your shit is getting melted, proper heat managment or materials haven't been used. All of the turbo components are all hot and occupy the same space. Proximity to heat sensitive components is more about design than it's top/bottom mount style.