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Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
I think you're way off on the exhaust numbers - pre-fab single turbo exhausts are about a grand - you would have to spend hundreds of hours fabricating a custom exhaust.
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Just to clarify what I am talking about with the exhaust: If you start with an off the shelf Bursch header, and cut the pipe right after the collector, or better yet, move the collector back a bit. Let Bursch do all the difficult bends, all the modifications would be shortening straight sections of pipe. Stuff any muffler shop could do.
Start with this:
Cut and weld to turn it into this:
Weld the flange on right to the collector, and bolt on an 90° elbow going outboard (or skip the flange all together, and weld the elbow directly to the collector), to the flange for the hot side of the turbo. You would end up with the turbos sitting pretty much where Mark has his:
You could do it easier/cheaper by using the thermal reactor replacement shorty headers, and a straight section of pipe to each turbo.
The piping from the turbos to the muffler wouldn't be difficult either, muffler shops make custom exhausts all the time. 2 flanges, 2 bends, and an off the shelf muffler. It would end up like the one Mark made here:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?threadid=131758
Mark is also using a 3.2 manafold, it looks like. I don't know if it is the same one he modified by shortening the runners when he had the supercharger on it.
Just some thoughts....
Tom