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exhaust took a bit longer than I thought , but finally done

I finished welding up the X pipe and added an O2 bung on the passenger side :





then moved on to the back and installed a pair of borla XS mufflers and hangers.

the plan was to use a pair of magnaflow mufflers ( quitter and flow well) , but when I got them I fount out that the entrance into and out of the muffler has a bottleneck where the pipe shrinks from 3" down to about 2.5" ,,, so I decided to ditch those and went with the borlas.


I also found out that these cars are not symmetrical ; everything seems to be moved over to the side, which meant I had to do some fancy bend routing to have the exhaust clear the floorboard :



and the finished product ( well the back half of the finished product :





I still have to take it apart and paint it ( don't ask why ,,, just feel it would look better ) and install some turn downs. and I still have to get an "ant's eye " view pic of the complete exhaust .

i then moved forward and decided to mess with the intercooler and piping. i mounted the intercooler in place along with the brackets holding it , then proceeded to mock the pipes up. although the piping is just a couple of 90 deg. bends , i wanted to do it nicely and bead roll the edges of the pipes so the couplers have something to grab on to .

so I broke out the 'ol bead roller and started experimenting with a few scrap pipes ,,,, and I then ran out of time 


so next up to do is:

- cut, mock , and bead roll intercooler pipes.
- weld BOV flange and IAT bung on pipes.
- fab up some sort of insulation on the front of the intercooler ( maybe wrap the whole thing in thermo insulating sticky stuff.
- install radiator and heat exchanger.
- consider moving the trans cooler from the inside fender to in front of the radiator if i have room .
- weld trans temp sensor bung on trans pan.
- run intercooler lines to trunk
- drop car on ground and measure for driveshaft