Completed the removal of the motor, 7 hours total doing it solo, and took the driver side turbocharger off. The K04 is just about ready to be installed. While the motor is out I'm also swapping exhaust manifolds, going to a set of Swaintech white lightning ceramic coated stock manifolds.
Continuing the look at exhaust manifold surface temperatures, the latest check is of the stock exhaust manifolds with Swaintech white lightning coating. I like the Swaintech product because the advertised thickness of the material is greater than other similar products. My understanding is that the thickness of a ceramic coating…
Today I finished removing the stock exhaust manifolds and replaced them with a pair of ceramic coated ported and polished stock manifolds, which probably provide no benefit to airflow. I also put one of the swaintech coated turbocharger inlet pipes in place on the BorgWarner K03's to see how it…
