70 dart swinger slant turbo build and mild restoration

Serj22 said

I can actually kind of see the reasoning there. To get a turbine to work efficeiently you need one side to be as hot as possible, then the other to cool off as quickly as possible, so the faster it hits the turbine before it cools off, the better. I can see why a long manifold may allow that cooling before it hits - plus you have all that much more surface area to dissipate the heat.

I'm still making a manifold for my new setup. But it will be really really short, and hit the turbochargers before they get too long.

I currently run the pipe as well. It works, but won't work as well for what I have planned.

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The clearances between the intake and exhaust pipes on my two "manifolds" are so close, there's just no room for a thickness of wrapping material in most locations, so, unless I change the hardware significantly, I am pretty much stuck with what I've got.

I WOULD change this to a different configuration if I was convinced that it would have a positive rersult on my quarter-mile performance, though... believe it! The fact that my car is ~just~ a race car, and never sees street time, might introduce factors into the rquation that would alter results; it is never run long enough at one time (sometimes, less than a minute at a time,) and, that may or may not change the heat-transfer/heat-retention characteristics of this present system, rergarding "wrap."

I dunno; it seems to work pretty well as it is, for what it is...:prayer::prayer::prayer: