66Sprint6
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Heres the slow progress on the header so far. I work slow and its a heck of a learning curve but after some words of encouragement from Mike and reminding myself to slooooow down and take my time, Im starting to have fun rather than stress out and doubt myself. I have about 4 hours, one entire evening after work in the last pic alone. Everything is tacked for mock up so I can break it all loose again to adjust or mod and then it will all be welded up when finished.
After alot of thinking, researching and measuring I had some plans drawn up for a header that would scavenge, keep exhaust flow up and spool the turbo with no lag all while not adding any extra heat to the engine bay and guaranteed to never crack under stress and look amazing while doing it. Then I woke up from the nightmare (you know the one, where you spend too much time studying and thinking about something and it haunts your dreams) and drew this up instead.
Itll work for the space I have, be affordable and do the job better than the stock manifold with Jpipe. Ive created a little bit of a headache to do the transitions but doing a 6-2-1 with collectors or even a 6-1 with a big collector just wouldnt fit with the limited space without costing me a fortune. Money isnt the issue, its that IM making it so I dont want a ton of $$$ in something I put together for the first time. If I redo it down the road I might try something different but this should do for now. I kinda stole the idea from a collection of old school Lake pipe headers, try Ys (sorta) and LS truck manifold designs.
Decided to tackle the first obstacle first, clearing the starter.
I then put the middle two pipes in to see where everything else was going to end up. I got started on 1-3 to gain some momentum, see some results and convince myself that I didnt just waste a bunch of pipe. I made some mistakes but nothing that couldnt be sorted out.
Fixed the mistake and got to work on the hardest part so far, the transition of #2 into #1 and then #1 into #3. One down, another to go!
I hope to have 1, 2 and 3 all together this week so I can get started on 4, 5 and 6 soon!
Matt
After alot of thinking, researching and measuring I had some plans drawn up for a header that would scavenge, keep exhaust flow up and spool the turbo with no lag all while not adding any extra heat to the engine bay and guaranteed to never crack under stress and look amazing while doing it. Then I woke up from the nightmare (you know the one, where you spend too much time studying and thinking about something and it haunts your dreams) and drew this up instead.
Itll work for the space I have, be affordable and do the job better than the stock manifold with Jpipe. Ive created a little bit of a headache to do the transitions but doing a 6-2-1 with collectors or even a 6-1 with a big collector just wouldnt fit with the limited space without costing me a fortune. Money isnt the issue, its that IM making it so I dont want a ton of $$$ in something I put together for the first time. If I redo it down the road I might try something different but this should do for now. I kinda stole the idea from a collection of old school Lake pipe headers, try Ys (sorta) and LS truck manifold designs.
Decided to tackle the first obstacle first, clearing the starter.
I then put the middle two pipes in to see where everything else was going to end up. I got started on 1-3 to gain some momentum, see some results and convince myself that I didnt just waste a bunch of pipe. I made some mistakes but nothing that couldnt be sorted out.
Fixed the mistake and got to work on the hardest part so far, the transition of #2 into #1 and then #1 into #3. One down, another to go!
I hope to have 1, 2 and 3 all together this week so I can get started on 4, 5 and 6 soon!
Matt