Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project
Apparently I should have measured 6,000 more times when building my manifold. The lower J pipe clears everything- steering box, etc... and the upper downpipe was meant to sit 1 1/2" beside it so that all was clear. The throttle cable was supposed to run between them, which in retrospect, is just a terrible idea. What I've made is a compact manifold Turbo setup alright, but I did factor and measure it to be sitting parallel with the manifold main log. The mocked up outcome is the turbo pointing slightly to the driver's side. I'm not really sure where I went wrong as I did my initial tacking on the car bolted to the other exhaust manifold, which fit fine.
Orange is junk I was using to try and make a mold of the inner portion there, but it didn't work the way I wanted and was unusable when I took it out.
Anyway, I can use it, but I'd have to turn the two barrel carb 180* from the way I initially wanted which means I have to switch to cable systems, which might be ok as the kickdown ROD was likely going to be in the way eventually... right? At least that's my thinking. Or I scrap the downpipe AGAIN, and have some kind of harsh 90* bend then go down and straight back, which seems awkward. This is doable, just not my original plan at all, and adds more parts to the list (cables) on top of the AFR gauge... I don't know if I want to scrap the manifold and buy $100 more worth of flanges and pipe (don't really want to), or just keep pushing on.... And I really should've done a mockup like this sooner... oh well. :banghead:
Apparently I should have measured 6,000 more times when building my manifold. The lower J pipe clears everything- steering box, etc... and the upper downpipe was meant to sit 1 1/2" beside it so that all was clear. The throttle cable was supposed to run between them, which in retrospect, is just a terrible idea. What I've made is a compact manifold Turbo setup alright, but I did factor and measure it to be sitting parallel with the manifold main log. The mocked up outcome is the turbo pointing slightly to the driver's side. I'm not really sure where I went wrong as I did my initial tacking on the car bolted to the other exhaust manifold, which fit fine.
Orange is junk I was using to try and make a mold of the inner portion there, but it didn't work the way I wanted and was unusable when I took it out.
Anyway, I can use it, but I'd have to turn the two barrel carb 180* from the way I initially wanted which means I have to switch to cable systems, which might be ok as the kickdown ROD was likely going to be in the way eventually... right? At least that's my thinking. Or I scrap the downpipe AGAIN, and have some kind of harsh 90* bend then go down and straight back, which seems awkward. This is doable, just not my original plan at all, and adds more parts to the list (cables) on top of the AFR gauge... I don't know if I want to scrap the manifold and buy $100 more worth of flanges and pipe (don't really want to), or just keep pushing on.... And I really should've done a mockup like this sooner... oh well. :banghead: