anyone running a mild steel exhaust manifold?

[travypoo]

just wondering if aynone is running a mild steel exhaust manifold and if you have had any troubles with it. i am debating mild steel vs another stainless manifold. i have re welded my stainless half a dozen times now and im getting sick of it. heard mild steel doesnt have near as much problems.

[dr.klawn]

is your exhaust braced to the transmission down below?? my stainless cracked b'cos the brace was off(idkh) & the car bottomed out pushing up on the header. i rewelded it, braced it back to the tranny with a hommade super rigid brace and added a flex pipe. are u running NA or turbo?? top mount...bottom mount do tell....

[travypoo]

bottom mount sr20. i do have flex pipe where the cat/test pipe goes, and i do have a brace going to the tranny mount off the DP. its just the manifold is 3 years old and its getting to the point where it should be changed. protech performance makes a sch 80 mild steel manifold for 600 $ i might pick up, or weld on a external gate flange to the stock manifold and run that..

[dr.klawn]

i went with a topmount & custom brace so it wouldn't sag & crack like my old KA header did. but whatever you get, look into bracing that also, somehow