miles
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The mantzel/velos ones work fine with standard ecu. Its just that, like with everything else, with a chip and raised limit you'll get more.
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WARPED
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thats cool, mantzel is a bit of of my price range, more interested in lexmaul and velos, like the price of the velos and the tuv approval of the lexmaul, gonna wait and see how the other guys works on his corsa before i decide
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WARPED
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top - u fitted it yet 
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miles
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mantzel/velos items will be better. trust me.
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WARPED
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ok, mite have to be the velos now then so many different opinions - gonna wait until broster fits his lex anyway just to find out how well it works
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WARPED
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top
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miles
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top why?
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WARPED
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top so it doesnt get lost and people can still see it and comment on it
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miles
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If people want to see or comment on it they will. Its not a for sale ad, if you want to know more do a search! This has been covered many many times!
What else do you want to know!?
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Stu_22
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I would like to see his opinion on the lexmaul manifold so lets keep it here and wait for a reply
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WARPED
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exactly
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Anton2K3
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Are u tellin ya insurance company if u get one of these? Or is it not worth it? Think i'm gettin a velos one.
Cheers,
Anton
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WARPED
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i wasnt gonna mention it personally, from what i have heard as they arent to hard to fit u cud have it off on replaced with the original in about an hour
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quote:
Originally posted by WARPED
i wasnt gonna mention it personally, from what i have heard as they arent to hard to fit u cud have it off on replaced with the original in about an hour
It took velos 1 to 2 hours to remove the top part of my old manifold!
Its a git to remove the pipe going to your air filter though!
I would say it'd take 4-6hours to do!
I wanna know how the lexmaull 1 performs, before and after power runs would be nice to know so people know which one is the best value!
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miles
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velos must have issues then.
The book time to change a head gasket on these engines is about 4.5 hours. And the inlet has to come off for that!
The whole point of these inlets is that the standard on is restrictive, the velos one solves this, the lexmaul one doesn't.
I would be very suprised if the lexmaul one out performed the velos one in any area by more than about 5%. But the velos one will whip it top end power.
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Anton2K3
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I no its not my thread...but cheers for the help guys, i'm gonna go with Velos
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broster
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ok sorry bout the delay in replyin warped, im fitting my lexmaul one 2moz am, bin movin from uni so aint had chance yet! but as soon as its done ill ans all ur qs about it!
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WARPED
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thats cool, ive just had to move out of uni and pack up my bar for the summer cause we only keep it open when students are in residence.
lookin forward to seeing the effects though ive come to a real fork in my plans, im stuck between tuning my current engine or gettin a new one, the chances are i will tune my current one as ive just had all that engine work done that i was on about so i now have a 33K engine which should last a fair bit.
good luck with fitting it, are u doing it urself?
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WARPED
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another thing, did u buy the carbon fibre cover or not? its really expensive, is there a cheaper one available?
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miles
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a cheaper option would be a powder coated rocker cover.
I'll do you one on exchange in any colour for £45 inc postage.
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WARPED
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can i not modify my current plastic cover to fit?
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miles
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the whole point is that the top part of the manifold that covers some of the rocker cover is removed, so a gap is left.
So material would need to be added. Could work but would be very tricky to get to look good.
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WARPED
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ahhh, turn those nuts faster broster
im waitin 2 see how good this thing is
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broster
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ok its all fitted, started fittin it at 8.50am this morn an was all finiched an had engine runnin by 9.45am, bin drivin it bout since then! lol! its made a big difference in acceleration, get to 4000 as normal but then it pulls stronger, like loads! an then when it used to slow down pullin at 5500 it now gets stronger an pulls well good all the way up to the limiter! well worth the investinment, looks good to, iv not got the cover, looks more racish with out the cover on i recon! lol! if u buy one ill do fittin instructions as the ones supplied are in german! go on get it! im gettin lexmaul cams an uni chip next!
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miles
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so its a myth that this gives more low down torque and less top end power.
have you any pics of it off the car?
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