Thanks!
 

I think we have a fastenal retail shop here... I'll check it out.

My downpipe is still going strong, corky mentioned that it probably wouldn't last more than 200 miles.
It'd done around 3000 highway miles and 2 autocrosses wonderfully thus far though so I'm happy with it.

hmmm, would you ever make another downpipe?

Not without a car in front of me, even then it was a pain in the ass doing it in my apartment's parking spot then driving to the welding lab at school.
If I had a garage to do things in I would help out more often.

Why did Corky think you wouldn't get more than 200 miles out of the DP?

Curiousity killed the cat:)

Hmm. I just built a downpipe, and I"m wondering how to make the external gate tap into it. Our setups look identical pretty much. It just looks like if I put a wastegate flange and pipe the way you did, that I could never get it installed. Did you install yours from below or above? My downpipe I built goes in from above, but I dunno if it will go in from below. Have to check.

Maybe his car will take it from all angles?:giggle:

Probably with all the Tupperware shit all around it. :giggle:
Anyways, I did this today, and it fit... After I cut some weird "notch" off the side of the bellhousing that seemed to server no other purpose that to cause my downpipe not to fit. 20 seconds with a sawzall, and it fits now. :) STILL gotta finish the exhaust though. I hate exhaust. But it will finally be better.

brilliant writeup! lots of great info that i think will help. great pics of the down pipe. i plan on making one very similar, if not identical to yours. looks great!

Yeah, I finished mine. No flex joint and it's flux cored... so not nearly as pretty. I didn't even take pics. But it's working great. I basically did what he did, but mines 3" off the turbo with a 2" pipe off the wastegate that T's back into the DP like his does, but mine enters perpendicular to the DP. Chad, your engine bay is so clean. I hate you.

That engine bay is screaming for a big cold air box. Sounds like a job for some sheet aluminum and tig. :D

lookin good.