Yeah, there just was no room to do that. I stumbled on that image when I was trying to make heads or tails. I think I came up with a reasonable solution to the wastegate.
Been busy trying to get stuff done the last few days, running a little low on motivation as my other two cars need work. Steering rack and all new joints on the ls Volvo and rear disc brake conversion on the 79 cummins were done this weekend as well.
Figured out a routing for the wastegate, probably not ideal, but this way was the cleanest I could figure it out without a ton more exhaust under the hood.
Fits god with the inner fender still.
Once that was done I got to business wit the welder and die grinder.
You can see in this picture a pretty direct path from both banks to the wastegate. Piping to and from the wastegate is 2 1/4"
Went over to my neighbor Geno's house who is always a huge help on these projects and he let me loose with his tig machine. To those of you who are killed with a tig torch, you have my respect, its hard to make it look perfect. These are far from perfect, but should hold just fine.
Did the downpipe with the TIG as well as the v bands onto the manifolds. The rest of the hot side piping got treated to a date with the old wire feed, turned out alright.
Last night I finished up with a little dimple died bracket for the turbo brace and added in two o2 bungs and a wideband bung.
Here it is all pulled off and ready to head over to the ceramic coater.
Now I get to get back to other stuff, fuel door in the bed floor, plumbing the fuel system and probably getting started on some wiring, radiator and intercooler.
Sean