So I am in the process of taking my manifold off to get a WG flange welded on and noticed it was crack where all 6 pipes come to meet. Not made of money by any means I would like to know if this could be repaired. I just purchased a wastegate and turbo and am pretty broke now lol. Any input would be awesome. thank in advance.

 

If its not leaking any air on the inside, I would say its worth welding to fix. I would look into replacing it when money comes in though because if thats cracking, god knows what else is wrong with the metal

 

thanks man. I'll see how much they will charge me to lay a bead on it when i get the wg flange welded on it. i never heard an exhaust leak now that im thinking of it.

 

have you installed/tried it on the car yet? how would you look for/find possible small cracks in the manifold? any type of tests you can run?

 

Yea man just pulled it off the car. Was taking it off to get a wg flange welded on. I had a boost leak and the wastegate was my first though and I also wanted to upgrade it.

 

Also the crack can be seen on the inside as well.

 

That could be repaired with a skilled TIG weld. for example. If someone just lays a quick mig bead on it, it will likely crack again.

 

Yea man that's what I've been told from everyone lol. Thanks I'll prob have to order another one to avoid tearing it down again.

 

The ss autotrash manifolds all crack in the collector. Welding will buy you some time, but it will most likely happen again. I've had four of these do this in the same way. As soon as you weld that side up, the other side of the weld will crack. The entire collector will need to be gone over

 

Damn. I'm going to end up having to get a new one. You know how it goes fix one thing and another thing breaks lol