Are the repop HP exhaust manifolds any good?

[Spartan]

I have been looking for stock HP manifolds for my 69 383 but the junkyards I have called on don't have any and ebay, well I'm not sure about them; there seem to be allot with cracks etc.  I saw Y1 has some repops. Has anyone bought them and are they any good/close to the originals?  My 383 came as a 2 bbl so it did not come with them but I did change over to a HP intake with a carter 4bbl AVS.

Thanks,

Brian

[Chatt69chgr]

I bought a set and they look pretty good.  I do plan to have them jet hot coated before I install them.  I also looked around before I bought them and what I saw available was expensive and to my mind a gamble as they could be cracked and I wouldn't know.  I have not run them on a car yet so I can't give you any actual road experience at this point.  I think I paid something like $239 for them.

[resq302]

I got a set from Year One and for the cost, the repros are going for a little cheaper than what you can get originals on ebay at times.  The good thing is that the heat riser is all brand new and you dont need to worry about it being rusted shut or missing parts.  Only reason why I replaced mine was that someone removed my heat riser on my pass side and I needed it in place for AACA rules.  The repro exhaust manifolds came coated which seemed to last a year but then started to flake off.  Casting numbers are dead on and the only difference that I found is that they have a large Y1 cast into it.  I'm guessing year one did that so no one could pass them off as orginals.