RS2 EM genuine or good copy?

[twoqu]

I notice that the two vertical ribs are missing in your version compared to the pic of the multitude.
To complicate matters there is this one:
http://cgi.ebay.de/AUDI-RS2-ABGASKRU...1%7C240%3A1318
Maybe you got a good deal after all!

[K Simmonds]

Yep I spotted than one as well the finish is very similar to mine, but as you have pointed out mine is missing those two ribs. I'm going to do a trial fit tomorrow with old gaskets to see how everything lines up.

[sjw185]

I remember something about a genuine one having a gap between the audi rings and the part number were the fake does not

cheers

[aronmatic2]

£240 delivered. The seller has more by the looks of it, http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA:IT&ih=014

i bought this on bay for my freind

[K Simmonds]

You got yours even cheaper than mine!! I will be very interested to hear your opinion of yours when it arrives. Mine took a while to come, about ten days.

[Rusty]

At that price someone should get one of these flow tested and run it for 50k and see how it fares!

[UrS4boy]

Damn that is a lot of RS2 manifolds
Does K24 1335 turbo's what is the output?

I started a thread about this last week. The K24 1335 is supposed to be the same as the K24 7200 but I haven't been able to confirm that. I know for certain, it can make 297 whp (about 360 crank hp) on good pump gas, more with a little toluene. All the "RS2'd" cars in the dyno day results were running them.

http://forums.audiworld.com/s4s6/msgs/110974.phtml

[kwlw]

I notice that the two vertical ribs are missing in your version compared to the pic of the multitude.

Interesting. Haven't paid much attention on this (angle in pictures sometimes confuses).

This is some improved version for sure (because earlier crappy one - had those ribs, even more than orginal...). If wise engineer was copying this, maybe also this has improved material ?

Sau

[K Simmonds]

Lets hope so, I suppose only time will tell.

[UrS4boy]

Interesting. Haven't paid much attention on this (angle in pictures sometimes confuses). This is some improved version for sure (because earlier crappy one - had those ribs, even more than orginal...). If wise engineer was copying this, maybe also this has improved material ? Sau

I notice that Carsten Wagner is staying out of this thread. However, if he did comment, I am quite sure that he would repeat what he has said before about these cloned RS2 manifolds: the material they use for the castings is very likely to be cr@p and much more prone to cracking than the real thing. If they had used a good alloy (like he uses for his RS2 EVO manifolds), the price could not be as low as it is on ebay.

[Rusty]

These have popped up on UK Eb@y now linky. Looks different to the initial pictures and has the ribs that people were referring to ( )

[quattro20v]

At least the collector looks a lot better than the first versions. Or he has removed some material off from this one.

[Rusty]

Nah, there are a few of them on there. Cheap and cheerful. This and the STR manifold are about the same price, it would be nice to know what each was capable of compared to the competition with the understanding that the material is crap compared to the £500+ options offered and will thus not last too long.

[denniselbows]

what you see in the pictur and what you get are 2 different things speaking from past buys

[Rusty]

Any examples/threads you can think of?