its great to see a person with enough determination and knowledge to build their own engine.let alone a turbo setup, very impressed.. keep up the good work.

 

page takes forever to load for somereason, anywho i wanted to add to my response, are you worried about cracking or stress without having a flex pipe between the acutual exhaust and downpipe??

 

I expect the flex is to allow for expansion rates and deforming of the pipes.

It is a lot like my LoveFab V1 setup that doesn't have the long dump pipe or flex. It's a PITA to refit the wastegate.

 

recirc'd dump ftw

 

thanks for the compliments!
my original intent was to put flexes on both the main and dump but because of the lack of space, i could only fit it on the dump. and the flex there allows for easy instal and removal of the downpipe. i may possibly put a flex down stream more where the cat was much like the stock headder and the doughnut exhaust gasket.
and yes recirc'd dump ftw!! i hate driving around in open dumps. you cant be ninja about things.

 

Very nice work you have done so far. Welding that manifold looks like a pain in the ass but you defintiely did an excellent job. Are you using oversized pistons or stock crank?

edit:
that exhaust looks sexy as fawk
diameter?

 

thanks! pistons are standard cp overbore so i thinkn its 0.5mm over? im using an f22 crank.
the exhaust is 3" to the rear flange you can see in in the pic by the diff and from there it is 3" to dual 2.5" with an oval transition.

 

awesome to see this project come together, everything looks really good man

 

I love the V setup. make a kit and sell me one!

 

lol if i made this for a customer it would be in the neighborhood of $3000. if you dont want a/c thats a different story though...