What do you thing about this...

[UrS4boy]

Which is very cheap

Buy the Chinese tubular cr@p then if cost is your main decision driver. Just don't come back here whinging that it broke. (Or if you get the RS2 knock-off, that it cracked).

It is a lot of work and expense to install an exhaust manifold. If you enjoy that kind of work and can afford the expense of the hardware, please go with the "cheap" solution. (In the end, it will not be).

[K Simmonds]

Buy the Chinese tubular cr@p then if cost is your main decision driver. Just don't come back here whinging that it broke. (Or if you get the RS2 knock-off, that it cracked).

It is a lot of work and expense to install an exhaust manifold. If you enjoy that kind of work and can afford the expense of the hardware, please go with the "cheap" solution. (In the end, it will not be).

Harsh, but very good advice.

Swapping EM's is not a fun job, OK 'some of us' can do the ones on well maintained cars pretty quick due to practice and decent fixings/tools. But it's a days work in the real work, with rounded nuts, snapped studs etc. Gaskets are not cheap either.

Plus there is the additional work bracing the dam thing, and adapting the down-pipe. I also doubt there's much chance of fitting one and still being able to use a OE air-box. Though I'm yet to see anyone one with enough sense to use a factory airbox try one of these EM's, kinda paradoxical.

The Chinese tubular thing is only good value if you want put it on a shelf and look at it, even then I'm sure I could find a better ornament for 150 quid..

[shone190]

I agreed with both of You, for now I'm in the process of "making money" for RS2 setup, so I want to hear so many opinions regarding everything I need to change

P.S. Today I bought RS2 injectors and one more AAN engine

[K Simmonds]

If I were back at the stage your at now I'd save up some spare funds and look out for used Wagner EM or possibly a used factory RS2 EM's, though every used OE manifold I've seen has cracked by now... If things are really tight then I'd go for one of the better Chinese RS2 copies, a lot people are using them without problem, sure a couple on here have done proper mileage on them (50K+).

Some of the Chinese RS2 copies are dreadful, some are a lot better, the one I purchased after a lot of looking obviously had care put into it's production. Though their metallurgic properties are always in question.

[shone190]

Do you have some link to RS2 EM Chinese copies?

[K Simmonds]

Do you have some link to RS2 EM Chinese copies?

No sorry. It was some years ago when I got mine, and it was sold as genuine, which it still questionably may be, but I don't think so. I wouldn't advocate buying a copy until I'd held it in my hands.

Someone else on here maybe able to help with a link to a proven product.