Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project
Well today I went to an exhaust shop to get the downpipe linked up to the old exhaust. Surprisingly, they offered to bend up about half the exhaust in 2 1/4" from the downpipe to the rest of the system. It looks very clean, and much better than I could have made it turn out.
Open pipes are cool and it sounded great, but carbon monoxide and my children definitly don't mix. SO to keep it a daily driver I had to put it back onto a full exhaust. Later on I'll have them put in a better muffler than the straight-through that's on there now, and bigger pipe in the back. But for $100 I think they did some nice work.
They also welded on a slider bracket so I could move it on the transmission hanger, but now that everything is hung up again, and super tight, the turbo shell does not move at all.
The turbo could still be heard till I brought it home, installed the fel-pro gasket rusty mentioned, and re-torqued the nuts on the lower part of the intake. SOmehow they were just not that tight - probably overlooked by me somehow. BUt now you can not even hear the turbo whine. It also is no longer leaking because the high pitch air noise is gone and the engine acting like it has a vacuum leak is no longer an issue either. Maybe now it's functional and good to go. WOn't know till later today when I go drive again.
Well today I went to an exhaust shop to get the downpipe linked up to the old exhaust. Surprisingly, they offered to bend up about half the exhaust in 2 1/4" from the downpipe to the rest of the system. It looks very clean, and much better than I could have made it turn out.
Open pipes are cool and it sounded great, but carbon monoxide and my children definitly don't mix. SO to keep it a daily driver I had to put it back onto a full exhaust. Later on I'll have them put in a better muffler than the straight-through that's on there now, and bigger pipe in the back. But for $100 I think they did some nice work.
They also welded on a slider bracket so I could move it on the transmission hanger, but now that everything is hung up again, and super tight, the turbo shell does not move at all.
The turbo could still be heard till I brought it home, installed the fel-pro gasket rusty mentioned, and re-torqued the nuts on the lower part of the intake. SOmehow they were just not that tight - probably overlooked by me somehow. BUt now you can not even hear the turbo whine. It also is no longer leaking because the high pitch air noise is gone and the engine acting like it has a vacuum leak is no longer an issue either. Maybe now it's functional and good to go. WOn't know till later today when I go drive again.