cheapest place to buy barr manifold riser kit

[hobby10k]

going to buy replacement manifolds and risers, going with Barr and not GLM. trying to find the cheapest place to buy a whole Barr manifold and riser kit.

 

[Bt Doctur]

If we could only guess as to what it goes on lets start at $15,810.24 peso`s and work down.

 

[hobby10k]

well i guess i assumed that the best place would sell all sorts of manifolds.

its for a 1991 mercruiser 5.7

 

[Bt Doctur]

do you want wet joint or dry joint system, do you need extentions if so what length.
IBoats has some very good pricing on them.

 

[Bt Doctur]

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[hobby10k]

it is a full closed cooling system. i will take a picture and try to see if i can post it. i have them off the boat now.

 

[Bt Doctur]

if its a full system that includes the manifolds , doubtfull they need changing unless leaking A/F . Most you should need to change are the risers

 

[hobby10k]

well I took them to the boat shop and he said the manifolds look good inside, however once I got them home I started looking at them and realized that metal is rusted and flaking off around the sides of the gasket surface where it mounts to the head (not the actual gasket surface) I just assumed I would replace them so I won't have to deal a possible problem in the future.

If I can continue to use them that would be great! This boat fix up project is going to cost enough as it is. I will try and get a picture of the rusting area and post it.

 

[Bt Doctur]

the rusting around the exaust port is fairly common because of the high heat there. I would say that anything less than 3/16 of material to seal
up to the head would be a good reason to replace them.

 

[hobby10k]

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[hobby10k]

If these are useable that would be great I'll only have to get risers. what is your opinion on the manifolds?

 

[bruceb58]

They look fine but wow on the rust! What does the rest of the engine look like? Sandblast them, paint them and use them.

 

[hobby10k]

well the riser gasket was leaking onto that area all last season (I didn't run the boat last season) and this winter (maybe longer IDK) so combination of that and heat rust IDK.. the rest of the engine looks fine. some rust on the heads where the manifolds mount, but only surface rust and not bad like these.

 

[hobby10k]

link for risers on Iboats?

 

[Bt Doctur]

http://forums.iboats.com/forum/engi...d-side-exhaust-water-flow-severely-restricted see post 15