What to do?

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:42 am

what fourteener says

ar_kid · Post by **ar_kid** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:45 am

They look like poor quality ‘monkey metal’ castings, if so they would be extremely difficult to weld. Also I’d avoid cross bracing between the manifolds as the engine needs grow with temperature, that’s why the linkage floats.

Which cylinder is the fracture on?

BTW John Mayer now resides in the Outer Hebrides, not that it makes any difference

Nige · Post by **Nige** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:46 am

what Ar_kid says

912uk · Post by **912uk** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 12:20 pm

I agree the metal is not going to be good it's anything that is lying around will get dumped inthe melting pot to make it look like it's worth using..

give it ago it's not going to brake the bank to try..

jh · Post by jh » Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:24 pm

Thanks again folks.

Cannot contact Jake at all.

John Maher kindly replied but doesn't stock type-4 parts anymore. He gave me a few other idea one of which is Rolf Klaus. He builds better quality but won't have any until next year.

CSP, thanks Nige, have also replied and pointed me at: http://www.csp-shop.de/shop2/?func=dl&artnr=21127 Not sure what exactly from this bunch i should be looking at though - Nige help?

Also, Bernard got back to me and said I'm the only one who's had problems but he would show them to Scat next time he's visiting them.

ar_kid · Post by **ar_kid** » Sat Nov 03, 2007 9:05 am

Those CSP ones look nice, CNC machined and the 3 bolt Porsche pattern.
CSP are good people to deal with

jh · Post by jh » Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:39 am

Thanks ad_kid. Put an order in - I'll try one more time with these bleedin manifolds - wife will be thrilled with my future Saturday plans

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Nige · Post by **Nige** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:47 am

Are you sending the duff one back to Bernard then? and they were Scat ones! that does sound like a freak occurance if they are genuine Scat fanimolds

jh · Post by jh » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:07 pm

Nah, Bernard didn't express an interest in receiving them back and to tell the truth I've paid so much in postage already I'm happy to write it off.

hat does sound like a freak occurance if they are genuine Scat fanimolds

Yep, fanimolds! You made man laugh out loud with that.

jh · Post by jh » Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:56 pm

just thought i'd link up this thread to what happened next - basically, with all the help on this great forum I sourced some really top quality manifolds that have not let me down since..... http://www.ddk-online.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17579

.....I highly recommend.

Oh, and despite some other wee problems along the way 912e #1916(appropriate number given out small country's history) has been used (and loved) pretty much daily.