Kangaroos Team - Turbo Manifold B230ft

Major Ledfoot

Has anybody here had any retail experience with this seller?

Shankzone

Drifts N' Lifts tested one of their 1JZ cast exhaust manifolds against a custom tubular exhaust manifold. Link to the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhFN5qqKnT8&t=323s&ab_channel=DriftsN%27Lifts

Kangaroo Racing reached out to the Volvo community late January (TurboBricks) to get some information about what would be the best platform and design for a cast iron manifold. Link to the thread here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2204727570/permalink/10162745202337571/

I can't see any reason to believe they are a scam, I am genuinely interested to see how they perform with the B230 platform. It would be great to have something with the durability of cast iron as an option moving forward, especially since I myself am looking to replace the pre 90's hair blower of an exhaust manifold in the near future.

Hope these links help.

jamesinc

Alright a couple people flagged this as potential scam but it may well not be. Caveat emptor all the same.

Drifts'n'Lifts is a good channel

Ramrodfunk

What's the postage cost of cast iron from Bulgaria??!

Ex850R

Ramrodfunk
What's the postage cost of cast iron from Bulgaria??!

These days the costs are well against them there.

Shankzone

Shipping is never ideal when traveling such a distance with an item that weights as much as these do but the price quoted on the website for the manifold alone is 148 Euro - about $235 AUD as of today.

Painful when the manifold it's self is selling for 325 Euro on a 15% discount.

Still cheaper then a custom manifold.

Ex850R

$AUD700 to Melbz.

120 Euro postage

Anthony

Strong design, pipe flow path seems unsophisticated, so little information to convince to purchase. Strain on manifold studs.

That said, it would suit a lot of people who must have a big turbo.

Ex850R

Anthony
Strong design, pipe flow path seems unsophisticated, so little information to convince to purchase. Strain on manifold studs.
That said, it would suit a lot of people who must have a big turbo.

The studs need help so the design should have some method of supporting Mani and big turbo.

Shankzone

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2204727570/permalink/10162877345002571/

They have begun working on the T6 engine

serk

Not a scam...

ramrod

How much that cost you

GingerNinja

Excellent. I'm interested to see how it fits once you get everything in the car.

dmc

It even says Red Block - very cool.

Spac

Ex850R
Seems like scam.

Kangaroos are legit - they do a lot of Mercedes stuff and seem to have only good feedback (including the places they can’t delete negative reviews).

100% I agree that Shankzone’s posts read like dishonest ads for Kangaroos, and they raised all sorts of red flags for me.

Shankzone

I have seen some videos that suggest inspecting the manifolds for any potential fragments left over from the casting process.

An example of what you would be looking for can be found in this video:

https://youtu.be/Y-BHorTeZuA?t=105

Also here is a post I saw today with the manifold installed with some photos. Some attention will need be made to relocating the coolant revivor.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/23765538560/permalink/10161397738528561/

Ex850R

As a Boily I've had a little contact with cast iron, I don't know anything you can do to test ( they should have done in car or on sled testing to redline for hours to get the castings red hot and cooling cycles, heating etc to see if cracking occurs.) so buy with that in mind.

A warranty is all well and good but the upfront cost is high, postage is crazy , you aren't sending it back if it fails on your dollar, they won't pay = no warranty.

jamesinc

I quite like the look of a cast high mount manifold, it's nice and compact too

Major Ledfoot

Uh oh.

https://turbobricks.com/index.php?threads/the-kangaroos-team-manifold.369869/

GingerNinja

Looks like they are going to make another run of them for customer who have already bought one.