Looks like you took off quite a bit on that 3rd tube...

Still looks great for the $$$ though



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Looks good. nice to hear it holding up so far. I want to see pics of where you put the wastegate on im intrested to see where exactly you placed it.

 

its just on the very bottom in the center, nothing special

 

It's actually already concave under the two center runners, I mostly just took off the texture from the casting. If I was using the stock exhaust nuts with the built in washer surface it wouldn't have been necessary at all.

 

Not sure about fitment, but:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...0HPm2:Featured

Frank

 

i have seen those before. it might fit with a regular t3, but i really doubt it will fit with a t4 comp housing

 

I got it all installed last night (still have to tune, wire up gauges, etc., so for now I have the wastegate locked open).

Bad part is that I finally, after 4 weeks of not being able to drive the car, I drove it to work and my radiator sprung a leak, turns out there is a 4 inch wide crack in the upper tank...damn it.

Anyway, here are some pictures of the install:

Custom downpipe with 2 O2 bungs and sealed exhaust wrap:

Close-up of the initial downturn from the turbo:

Fitment of the turbo on the manifold (pay no attention to the accessory belt):

Engine bay after everything was buttoned up:

 

Why does the upper portion of the downpipe appear to have grown a short, tight beard?

 

I'm sure there's some sort of Ma'ma joke in there somewhere.

 

Heat Sheilding

 

its still holding strong on my car.

 

I'm pretty sure Corky says heat-wrap on the downpipe is a bad idea. It's not bad for the wrap, but something about accelerated degradation of the metal. Somebody else can chime in with specifics.

 

holds moisture, metal rusts, nuff said.

 

Yeah, I know all the warnings and I'm gonna take my chances and see what happens. I took the extra precaution of coating the wrap with wrap sealer. I'd like at some point to replace it with a SS downpipe anyway.

 

It works fine on cars that are always driven a good distance and have time to burn off the moisture. I've run it on race cars w/o issue to the manifold... but the stuff usually only last a season before it starts coming apart.

 

That heat wrap stuff looks cool initially...

I'm curious after some good mileage how it holds up.

Nice setup man!

 

Currently checking out ebay, only see them for 1.6's, is this the case?

 

It is that case. I have one coming as well. It will be at my house before the miata.

 

how do i get it for $127 ? theyre all $170+ on ebay, did you email 1 of the sellers?

 

supply and demand much?