Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project

Went to an exhaust shop today to get a rundown on a price for putting some stuff in. -namely the J, downpipe, and waste tube. I couldn't even get a ballpark estimate out of him, and while he seemed super interested in the project, I can tell not really into doing the work. I have a few other shops in mind, but I might wind up going to pleasanton and learning to weld a bit. Since I'm a member of the UBOC we have a free weld shop where they teach you to weld, and you can use it if need be. I'm thinking if need be, I'll learn and buy some piping and go to town. lol.

Otherwise it might be difficult to do what I want to do. I am going to document everything I do to hopefully help others out here.

But the general consensus is that I should not start with the exhaust if I want to minimize downtime. I figured logically the first thing to do would be to start at the beginning - the exhaust, then intake, etc...

I may have to buy piping, mock up where it goes in the engine bay with wood (not a big deal) figure out the intake piping i need, where the oil lines go- etc... then I'd route the oil lines, cap them off, adjust the timing, toss the piping i need in the trunk, dropping the carb I'm making in the trunk - which I am now thinking of going with a Holley 2300 since the instructions for modifying it for boost are READILY available and everywhere. The motorcraft I am just applying what i can see for channels on a holley, but this damn powervalve circuit I can just not get to do what I want. Anyway, then I'd have to pre-route basically everything I want, drive to a good exhaust guy in Fairfield (20 minute drive) and then have the piping made up, and bolt everything together in the parking lot. I'm sure he wouldn't mind if i did that, and I don't mind either, but I'm seeing preperation as being the best way to go about doing this for a daily driver. If the car sat in a garage and I had time every day to just mess with it, that'd be a different story.

WIth all that in mind, I have a solution for the oil feed that does not involve any adapters, and will allow me to run a oil pressure line nearby easily.

I have $100 more worth of stuff I'm ordering that will be put into use - namely flanges for everything, more oil line, vacuum hoses, etc... I'll document prices and exactly what I buy from here on out for a realistic (budget) expectation of what I'm doing.