My Ported Manifolds

[SergioL.]

Well I didn"t want to spend $3K in the exhaust on a mostly stock truck like mine so I decided to give porting the manifolds a shot since I have read about others doing it. I recently also had the cats deleted at a local muffler shop, had #12568 Magnaflow installed and made my own mechanical O2 simulators. I'm probably going to make some custom stainless tips too.

Stock VS. Ported

Ported:

Stock:

Ported:

Stock:

 

[SergioL.]

I also smoothed them down by grinding all the casting numbers off and shaving all the mounting points for the heat shields.

 

[rare03srt10]

Great work!!! Any tips to make the job a little easier?

 

[ALL3-500HP]

Nice job!:rock: How hard was it? Porting my manifolds and cat delete are my next mods

 

[SergioL.]

It is not hard at all, just very time consuming. I have 3 afternoons in them so far. I would say it's a 2 day job. I would have ported and painted the other manifold today but it started raining. If the weather permits I should have everything re-installed tommorow. Only tips I can give are to buy new gaskets before starting this because the old ones fall apart and get yourself a bit like the one pictured below because it rips metal out FAST!

I also smoothed down a ridge that is on the inside of the collectors:

 

[JRSVIPR]

Nice job man,I'm gonna pic. mine up Monday.

 

[SergioL.]

Thanks guys. it stopped raining and I got back to work. I just finished porting the other manifold and I am in the middle of painting it. Smoothing down the outside is what takes a while.

The new gaskets were $80 and the paint was $20. I already had the tools necessary for the job. The manifolds are now lighter, better looking, and should flow better than stock. For the money I doubt if shorty headers have little to any gain over this. Installed pics are coming tommorow. If anybody needs some heat shields just make an offer, bolts included.

 

[caveman]

Outstanding work!

 

[mysrt10]

They look great man! Nice work!

 

[VPRPWRD]

They look great, would be interested in the sound and performance difference.

 

[jman08]

Yes GREAT JOB!!!

 

[rbabody]

:top:

 

[SergioL.]

Now they match the color of the truck.

 

[SergioL.]

Just did the test drive. For the first few miles I could smell the paint from inside the cab, but surprisingly the header paint held up. I am sold on this stuff from now on. I have always used regular paint on headers and it burns off immediaitely. The throttle response is noticeably better. It's hard to tell if the exhaust note changed since I just did the other exhaust mods last week and I have only owned the truck about a month. But, it sounds just a little louder than stock and I like that it doesn't sound like a V6. You can REALLY here the intake sucking in air. I did a WOT 1st-2nd run and it spun like never before. It used to hook in first and bark going into second, I had to shift early into second because it was spinning so much.

 

[JRSVIPR]

Cool.:rock::rock:

 

[fastestbrickonearth]

Nice job man. They look good

 

[05srt10carson]

Nice work

 

[eddie102870]

sweet i did the set on mine for kicks, used por-15 paint on them.

 

[ViperJeff]

Very Nice.........

 

[hawk02]

Now they match the color of the truck.

Nice work man!!!! Another question where did you get the eyelids for the headlights? Thanks, the new guy.