Hi Dave,

Yes, you start on the inside, welding inch by inch. And when that is finished you grind off the seam on the outside inch by inch, and then weld inch by inch. I am sure you get the picture!!

Thanks for the kind words by the way.

Cheers,
Tricky

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Hi Mike,

Yes, it does suck - and its a job I dont think I would ever tackle again. The welds need to be good, very good. But as long as there is plenty of weld there, everything should stay put.

I am not sure which is the more tedious, the welding and grinding or the bogging and sanding!!!

Cheers,
Tricky

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Ide have to say the grinding as you have to do it twice...

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And I would have to agree with you Mike!

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dam i just went thru this thread this is some nice work
i hope mine turns out this good
cant wait to see the finished product


Cheers
Matt

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Hey how well does the 3" exhaust system fit? Any clearence issues?

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Hi SS,

Thanks for the kind words - much appreciated!

Gordo,

No clearance issues whatsoever. Believe it or not, there is a ton of room down that transmission tunnel.

It helps when you have a guy doing your exhaust who is really switched on though....

Cheers,
Tricky

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Seems i might have just found the right guy....
Im not a fan of the current exhaust manifold i have

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Great Gordo!

Do you want some detailed pics of what my guy has done?

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Tricky

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Yeah would be great... Just email me or post it up here what ever tickles your fancy

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Tricky i got a quote for the my exhaust yesterday...
Im going to have a new exhaust manifold made up through to the turbo, ceramic coated. Then a ceramic coated dump pipe through to the flex joint, then the rest of the way through in stainless, going to have a similar finish as your with the dual canons but i think ill get them to exit on an angle. Prob have a cat in there somewhere also

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Hell Gordo that sounds real nice!!

Would love to see some pics when its finished.

A couple of Q's if I may:
Who is doing the ceramic coating now that HPC have gone the way of the dodo?

What style of custom EM design will you be doing?

Cheers,
Tricky

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The manifold will be a similar design to the old one but not so crap.. It currently hits/rests on one of the bolts for the thermo fan. And not sure who will be doing the ceramic coating (the exhaust guy will get it done). And the ceramic coating dosnt just have to be black, im going to get it like a chrome finish

This is the old manifold

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That's a nice bit-o-kit Gordo!

What turbo are you running?

Are you going 3" same as mine, and did the pictures help?

Cheers,
Tricky

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Gordo,

Why don't you just modify the existing exhaust manifold, you can easily cut through the welds and turn the elbows a bit and re-weld to get better clearence where required. You maybe wasting money by redoing the entire manifold.

I still think there is so merit in the log approach and i will be interested to see how it performs. If you look at your manifold you get the initial run of pipe extracting the gases but eventually it returns to a smaller line that will no doubt restrict the exit of the gases to the turbo.

This will open up a debate very quickly i would think but an equal length manifold is only good for a high performance race car, at our level it will not make any difference.

Dan