LQ4 into a 3rd Gen/1972 Nova by frojoe

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I tweaked the turbo hotside a bit.. rotated the piping on the flange slightly to bring the turbo inboard and further away from the tire for more inner fender clearance. This ended up swinging the compressor housing and intake elbow closer to the radiator support, so cut 3/8" out of the straight tube part of the turbo hotside.

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Naturally, this now cramped any room I had left for asymmetric charge piping between the intercooler and the throttlebody, so I'll have to do a bendy tapered merge pipe from 3.5" at throttlebody to 2.5" by 4.5" overall width oval on the top of the intercooler.