Originally Posted by
Epstein
...center of gravity.
99% of ppl dont care about cg on this website. Thats why they think you lower a car to look cool.
gonna play devil's advocate here:
1. who PURPOSELY fabricates an improperly paired manifold? (the "clearance" argument doesn't cut it)
2. no one claimed it was purposely built that way until it was pointed out that it was wrong. (b-b-b-backpedal)
3. who would really want a T28 topmount? the only way this would be an acceptable idea is if they were only using the T28 for temporary use until they upgrade to a GT2871r...which brings up the issue of a) do it right or do it twice, why not wait until you have all of the correct parts in?, and b) even a gt2871r would fit nicely in bottom mount, and still win the CoG argument.
4. looking on par with top quality stuff, and being on par are totally different worlds. props to the fab guy who can make the manifold, as it's better than anything i could ever do, but full-race and some of the other top companies have a few years of proven longevity over the rest of us. even my manifold, made by a top fab guy, had issues and had a failure after 4 years.
Why does clearance issues not cut it??? Have you built a bottom mount set up with a evo turbo?? Do you know what the clearances are??
The reason no one claimed it was purposely built that way till now is cause honestly I did not think the argument would go on for so long. OK I built a wrongly paired manifold for my personal car. Its never been done wrong on a costumers car nor will it ever be done wrong.
I still dont know whats wrong with doing a top mount t28 its not necessary. But shit cant ppl be different. Is that not what this whole car thing is about, to be different from the person next to you. Im only arguing about cg to bring the point that you can build something to maximize performance while helping other aspects of the car.
Where do you think those full-race, peak boost guys started??? From the garage just like my friend and I are doing. To that point even the top companies manifolds fail. Just because you are a big name company does not mean everything you build does not have a chance to fail. Why do you think the have life time warrantys.