Turbo Manifold Exhaust for 55565353 GT1446 781504-0004 13-18 Buick Encore 11-16 Chevrolet Cruze 16 Chevrolet Cruze Limited 12-18 Chevrolet Sonic 13-18 Chevrolet Trax 1.4L 1.4T Turbocharger

As previously mentioned the fit was a bit looser than the factory manifold, but there were no gaps and it functions perfectly.

This cast iron part is the common failure on the Cruze turbo. it either cracks at the waste gate, or deforms and won't seal. It was an easy fix to remove the cast part from the turbo and replace it with a new exhaust manafold. I seperated the parts with a dead blow hammer and an aluminum drift. The new manafold slipped right into place and had an alignment pin. Works great!

I made the big mistake of not checking this out before I was finishing up assembly of the engine. I go to mount the CHRA (aka center housing) and compressor onto the turbine housing and it feels like it's not seating properly. There's a gap between the v-band flanges. I cleaned everything and re-checked fitment and got the same issue. Got a depth caliper and found the root cause. This housing counterbore is not machined deep enough to let the CHRA flange seat directly onto the turbine housing flange. Every Garrett/OEM turbo I have ever played with, there is zero gap. I thought about just throwing the v-band clamp on it and just pulling it down, but I checked the turbine wheel fitment and clearly it's not seating down into the shroud contour enough to get the right clearance. I spent a lot of time working on this manifold only to find this major error at the last stage of assembly. I am extremely disappointed. After all the time and screwing around with this, I would have been further ahead to buy a genuine Garrett complete turbo. I would ask for a replacement of this from the supplier, but how would I know that the next one won't have the same error? I'm a machinist and I can probably fix this, but a lot of time will be needed because these turbine housings are very difficult to hold in a mill because everything is at odd angles. Anyways, I think I just got taken for $100. Don't make the same mistake I did.

I was a bit nervous ordering the manifold due to the previous review mentioning fitment problems. But I figured I'd give it a try and return it if they're were problems.The depth issue between the center section and the manifold has been resolved. But it's a little bit loose. I'm sure it will clamp up fine, there is just more clearance than I'm used to finding. The old manifold had to be heated and beaten off which was tighter than expected.If your center section is fine I'd definitely give this a chance. I wouldn't do this for a customer because sometimes after tear down the center bearing has issues, but for my own car, yeah.

Works just the same in my car easy to install

Works great so far. Over 1k miles on it. Good value for the money. Easy to install. Seems like good quality. Fit good. They must’ve fix the issue other said.

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