Those -10 push lock hose is too close to the exhaust
Gonna have to make them hard lines up to the bellhousing

There’s room for a muffler under the passenger side rear seat
I’m debating about making one with a little copper and/or other crazy metals to get a different exhaust tone. Already going to have a Flowmaster under the trunk

I bypassed going up and around the diff on mine. It is now the first thing that hits anything. I plan on redoing mine to snake around. Your image looks like what I had I mind. 45deg over the CV. I kinda gave up fitting it correctly. Even the same box of amazon pipe but in 2.5 :D Hanger situation ...

there’s only 3 cat back exhaust mounting points
I’m gonna have to fix that. There’s not much room with a 3” pipe in a 2” ditch. I’m debating about just bolting the flex pipe back straight to the car with rubber isolators

1.9 bar / 13.5 psi or 2.2 bar / 17.5 psi?
That is the question
If I was to guess the intake hose at the throttle body popping off is its weakest link.
Bonding silicone to aluminum:
Permabond
Polyolefin primer
Permabond cyanoacrylate 105

Got the downpipes all welded up. Had to take a little off the subframe pinch weld. Doing the heat shields and secondary support bracket now

Let’s see if 16ga 304ss amazon stuff holds up for the flex pipe back

I’ve got 3/4” clearance from the drive axle boot. Heat wrap and a custom heat shield

1 3/4 roll cage tool and a serpentine belt alignment tool to merge the wastegate into the downpipe

Here’s progress so far. No oval tubing. Can’t get it to fit do you all run 3” tubing? I’m worried about ground clearance and melting things?

I shortened the downpipe a little to fit this
I hope haha. Wish me luck. 3” oval tubing. More ground clearance and will leave more room from melting the axle boot

Hello again. It’s been a long time. I decided to keep it. Too sentimental. The piston rings went. I’m going to be able to get a short block from Marc in about 6 months. Now that I know which turbine housing I’m going to use I can make the exhaust and intake as well.


Glad you kept it! I've ...

It fits

Making a downpipe is much more difficult than I thought. A new found respect for fabricators. Here’s what I got so far.

IMG_0077.jpeg I pushed her back into the garage on the first. Happy new year everyone. for the third time around. This time I’m getting a short block professionally built. Didn’t have much luck the first two times. I’ve gotta make the intake and exhaust first so we can tune it properly. The intake ...

Hello again. It’s been a long time. I decided to keep it. Too sentimental. The piston rings went. I’m going to be able to get a short block from Marc in about 6 months. Now that I know which turbine housing I’m going to use I can make the exhaust and intake as well.

DE80q wrote:I'll believe it when I see it!

I shouldn't say though, mine hasn't moved in 2 years haha.

Haha. It’s been a 18 year long project. It’s hard to believe myself. So long my mind still doesn’t register that it’s available to use

Everything is great 100 or so miles later. I needed a vacation from it. It turned into an obsession again and now I can relax. It’s back to it now.
First is the power steering doesn’t work. I used a mini cooper electric pump that’s not coming on.
Just ordered one today. This weekend I’ll finally ...

After starting it for the first time the second time around. Had a loose oil cooler hose and a leaky freeze plug. They are now fixed. Gotta get a plate and registration and I should also hook up the electric power steering pump. Not sure if that affects tuning. It is more of a load on the engine. I ...

She’s all back together again. So I called Marc for a remote tune. Over the internet and through the computer it started right up. Thank you!!