NEW Slant Six Manifold for $98 on Ebay? Any good?

I bought a Dorman and it was not perfect. In short the carb heat-box was a piece of crap. And it's welded together so you cannot just take it apart and rebuild it better. I modified it enough (mostly using a dremill) to get it to move freely. The good news about that Dorman was that the mating surface between the manifold and head was very good. (And I think that's where I would be most concerned about if I were buying a cheapo manifold. ) If you have a big mill at your disposal, you might not care.

The other thing (that is NOT an issue, just something to consider) is that the pictured exhaust manifold has re-enforcements on the tubes. I had to grind a couple of those down in a couple spots to work with my (Offy) intake manifold. Not sure if the stock intake manifold would have had that issues. Also, it's not much an issue, just some busy-work. I think you WANT the re-enforcements. There's a reason they added them to the design (the original manifolds tended to crack, I guess.)_