RS2 exhaust manifold usable or junk?

[monstereddie]

the whole act is unfair. the thing with the "monstereddie ripped me off" - are you kidding me? HOW BIG must USED -- USED -- and like no cracks being written on the ad? like no cracks meant, that there ARE cracks, but not some of them going through the whole material. and it is also very selfish to write, that i have never told you this, also i can SEE the cracks that you post on MY second picture. i had never the reason or the goal to fool someone or to rip you off. and yes i make it maybe bigger than it is, cause i WANT to take the responsibility for this, but NO i will not refund this.

I wanna answer your question:

1. if you install it like this, i believe, that this will last for 8-10 months
2. if you weld the major cracks inside it will last much longer
3. even brand new ones crack after 1,5 - 2 years, sometimes hard, sometimes not that hard.

NOW, if you would have asked me exactly this in 2008, maybe you would have gotten exactly the same answers.
And you are allowed to spread this all over the internet, that you feel ripped off. I feel, that you bought a part and didnt even care about it.

[merlin's S4]

Has one of those gone all the way through in the 2nd pic?,

That particular crack appears to be the worst one and is shown in more detail in pic #3 in post #12. It is approximately an inch long and does go through to the adjacent chamber but it does not appear that any cracks have gone through to the outside of the casing.

There are a couple of small cracks on the flange but also some other strange marks almost like overspray as shown below. What could have caused these marks?

[LHD_Kid]

I don't really want to get too involved in this, however, as an "outside spectator", I am not sure how anyone would think "like no cracks" actually means has cracks... "like no cracks" would mean to me, and 99% of the world, as "no cracks..."

I agree, it's too late for any kind of refund, but as Merlin points out... this is not the idea of the thread....!

Personally, I don't believe I would be using it without repair by someone who knows what they are doing, which might make it not worth doing....

[monstereddie]

i didnt overspray anything, and I CAN SEE THE SAME crack on my second picture. I am very sorry that my camera wasnt that good in 2008.

[monstereddie]

And why is the flange on my picture absolutely clean and on your picture full of exhaust?

[merlin's S4]

And why is the flange on my picture absolutely clean and on your picture full of exhaust?

Get a grip!!

It's been sat in my store for 18 months. Sure there is dust and rust present but I've never fitted it to anything.

[merlin's S4]

1. if you install it like this, i believe, that this will last for 8-10 months
2. if you weld the major cracks inside it will last much longer
3. even brand new ones crack after 1,5 - 2 years, sometimes hard, sometimes not that hard.

Finally some truthful comments. It's just a shame you didn't put this in your for sale thread. Now can you stop being so defensive and leave this thread for the purpose it was intended.

[Rusty]

I got a quote to have these cracks sorted and it wasn't cheap! Half again on the price paid for the manifold! Hardly what you'd expect for a manifold that was crack free

[merlin's S4]

I got a quote to have these cracks sorted and it wasn't cheap! Half again on the price paid for the manifold! Hardly what you'd expect for a manifold that was crack free

So £300 + £150 to make it usable. Hardly the bargain of the century especially when a brand new one or Wagner item is only £500-£600

[quattrostyle]

I paid €50,- to let mine welded by a good local company, and is was way worse than yours. And as said before it held up fine.