LQ4 into a 3rd Gen/1972 Nova by frojoe

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Welded up the oil cooler junction block, and this morning ordered what *should* be the last "big ticket" item.. the Earl's oil cooler.

Here is the oil cooler junction block welded together and installed...

Rough layout of the turbo feed lines. The driver side turbo feed line is a bit messy because things are so cramped under the turbo, but once the hoses are crimped and I've clocked the ends and secured the bends with zipties, I think it should be okay...

While I wait on the oil cooler, I decided to start mocking up what I think the tailpipes and tips could look like. I printed to-scale 3.5" exhaust tips, elongated slightly according to a 15* and 25* tip angle...

Here is the 3.5" 15* tip angle exhaust tip mocked up in place.. looks kinda small...

The location of good proportionality was about 1" inboard of the common plane shared between the bumper mount bolt head and the inboard edge of the tail light trim. With the exhaust lined up with those two it looked kinda strange having so many objects visually aligned to one reference line, so I moved the tip inboard until it looked decent in person, also taking into account the visual mass of the bumper between the tip and the outboard corner (right side) and the tip and the license plate recess (left side)...

With the 3.5" tip looking a bit anemic, I printed out a 4" tip (!!!) and in person it looks significantly more proportional, especially when you imagine a 1/4" air gap between the tip OD and the bumper notch...