Here are fit up pictures of exhaust. I really hate showing pictures of things in the rough. They always look sort of.........rough. Anyway all tubes are built with mandrel bends, connections are V bands. The waste gate tubes are have flanges and the wastegates are plumbed back into rear exhaust. Would have prefered to have seperate tubes all the way to the rear but there are space considerations. There is plenty of space between parts including the drive shaft. I made everything easy to take apart for easy of maintence. Everything is done now and assembly is in progress. Some will wonder why I didnt go stainless steel. Partly I dont like working with SS as it is hard to cut and fab with, besides weight. Mostly I figure down the road somewhere I will be changing stuff,( maybe bigger Turbos or something) so I have keep the exhaust as simple and inexpensive as I could. The down tubes are 21/4" to the turbos, stock exhaust manifolds, heavily ported. The down tubes will be heat wrapped with Heatshield's Lava wrap to keep all the heat I can going back to the turbos. They have SS braided flex sections to keep stress and flex from the turbos. The whole theory is to have gas velocity high to spool the turbos fast. Rear exhaust exiting turbos are 21/2" with SS flex sections. New Bora mufflers are there to quite the car even more. Here are these pictures for now. By the weekend I should have more finished looking pictures to post. There will be more pictures to follow
David: I will likely live with the AOD as it is for now. If I survive this build this winter and everything runs good I have considered going to a built C4 tranny as I really dont drive the car much on the highway. Or there are a few other options as well
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Ken