Suspect dead right hand turbo.

[111marc111]

I'll see what,Steve comes back with Monday. He had one last week.
If not I'll have to search harder. Cheers

[Mɐʇʇ]

Drop ChrisA a message, he had a spare pair of manifolds.

[111marc111]

Just sent him a message. Thanks for the heads up.

[111marc111]

Just to bring this thread to a close and thank anyone for any help along the way. Car is finally back on the road. MOT this morning and passed.
Lots of work has been done in the very little spare time i get over the last six months, could of easily got carried away and done more (while the engines out) but where do you stop!
Glad to be back in it! Ready for summer!
Here it is.

[Weiß-sechs]

Well done that man! Another '6 lives to fight another day
Where did you source the manifolds?

[111marc111]

It would of been easy to give up and I can see why many probably do. Especially if you dont tackle it by yourself, the labour cost on top of parts prices would be eye watering on sadly what is a car with not alot of value!

I replaced only the damaged manifold. The other manifold was removed and thoroughly inspected and reused. I hope i dont regret keeping with standard manifolds, manifolds breaking, I thought were quite rare but there has been another two cases I've read about only recently. I'll be gutted it happens again! Steve Green supplied a used manifold. He was great help, really nice bloke, yes postage was slow which i know can irritate some but I wasn't in a rush. I just get the impression he is really busy and has higher priorities than 100quids worth of spares to post.

Got there in the end!

[bilko1]

Maybe the manifold from the mental manual that's being broken is available. Doubt it's cheap though.

They were cracked and leaking and the coating was flaking off.

[111marc111]

They were also custom built to whatever turbo setup that car was built with.

[steve2003rs6]

Well done Marc. Great job mate. Pleased you are up and running.

[Felix2566]

Nice to see another one back on the road again!
Mine has decided 6 of being road legal and fully working was more than enough, got a massive vac leak..