The Ghost under the knife
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Fan wired waiting for a wastegate seal, looks like someone lost it. 
and to be honest i woulda figured you cut the x fitting off and used a y fitting would have looked cleaner imo and less obstruction from the angle of the shot it looks like its not a perfect straight shot.
There is a Seat of the bottom of the gate and it was not with the car...Did you see the exhaust and what it was????????
It was 2 pipes, the wrong size, and to keep his tails the one side of the pipe was cut off we then ported out the one side so air flow would be clean. Did you notice the welds, not sure anyone I know of welds that clean.
If it was my car I would have ran a single shot 3 inch all the way out, but hey we made the exhaust work very well with what we were supplied.
Did you ever have FLUFF
No, he just eats paint chips
and apparently you dont get what i am saying refer back to the pictures you posted look at number 1,3,4.
1 and 3 show the bump and then compared 4 to a y fitting. it was more of a bitch doing what you did than by just cutting out the x and welding in a y fitting.
either way lets get crackin we are dieing to pick it up.
In a perfect world i would have completely remade the mid pipe, but the Kooks exhaust Nick supplied wanted to be used. Unfortunate that the way its made (which is well) had the 3 bolt flange style connections at the back tails. I wanted to keep the exact same geometry as the exhaust was made, in order to not have the issues out the back and alignment. I looked at the x on the bench and figured with some manipulation i could convert it to a pseudo Y by removing one leg, porting out the crossover and capping one end. The down pipe that wasnt finished was 3.5 od and no real way to make a clean leakproof connection. I flared the spare leg i removed to take up some space for the reducing weld. Coming off the downpipe its right into the leg and then gets split equally at the x with the internal work i did.
The spare leg also had to be sliced and the flange spun in order to meet up to the exhisting 3 bolt on the midpipe. All in all i was quite happy to keep the exhisting exhaust intact, which resulted in a seamless install of the rest out the back. Everything lined up perfect.
Now onto the few things that have to be tweaked.
Im surprised with whomever fabbed the hotside. Everyone knows a wastegate should be mounted at a 45 to the pipe leading the the turbo. We have MAJOR boost creep even with the 44mm gate just running on the spring (13psi/.9 BAR) By the end of the runs its was closing in on 18psi, which deems the controller useless for now until we fix that. I have to drop hot side now and refab. Exhaust has a real hard time making a 90* turn to exit the gate....never gonna control the turbo like that.
At 15ish psi and a lame tune @ 5300 rpm we are alredy well beyond block splitting terr, so new springs and fixing the gate is next in order.
Thanks for the props.
The spare leg also had to be sliced and the flange spun in order to meet up to the exhisting 3 bolt on the midpipe. All in all i was quite happy to keep the exhisting exhaust intact, which resulted in a seamless install of the rest out the back. Everything lined up perfect.
Now onto the few things that have to be tweaked.
Im surprised with whomever fabbed the hotside. Everyone knows a wastegate should be mounted at a 45 to the pipe leading the the turbo. We have MAJOR boost creep even with the 44mm gate just running on the spring (13psi/.9 BAR) By the end of the runs its was closing in on 18psi, which deems the controller useless for now until we fix that. I have to drop hot side now and refab. Exhaust has a real hard time making a 90* turn to exit the gate....never gonna control the turbo like that.
At 15ish psi and a lame tune @ 5300 rpm we are alredy well beyond block splitting terr, so new springs and fixing the gate is next in order.
Thanks for the props.
In a perfect world i would have completely remade the mid pipe, but the Kooks exhaust Nick supplied wanted to be used. Unfortunate that the way its made (which is well) had the 3 bolt flange style connections at the back tails. I wanted to keep the exact same geometry as the exhaust was made, in order to not have the issues out the back and alignment. I looked at the x on the bench and figured with some manipulation i could convert it to a pseudo Y by removing one leg, porting out the crossover and capping one end. The down pipe that wasnt finished was 3.5 od and no real way to make a clean leakproof connection. I flared the spare leg i removed to take up some space for the reducing weld. Coming off the downpipe its right into the leg and then gets split equally at the x with the internal work i did.
The spare leg also had to be sliced and the flange spun in order to meet up to the exhisting 3 bolt on the midpipe. All in all i was quite happy to keep the exhisting exhaust intact, which resulted in a seamless install of the rest out the back. Everything lined up perfect.
Now onto the few things that have to be tweaked.
Im surprised with whomever fabbed the hotside. Everyone knows a wastegate should be mounted at a 45 to the pipe leading the the turbo. We have MAJOR boost creep even with the 44mm gate just running on the spring (13psi/.9 BAR) By the end of the runs its was closing in on 18psi, which deems the controller useless for now until we fix that. I have to drop hot side now and refab. Exhaust has a real hard time making a 90* turn to exit the gate....never gonna control the turbo like that.
At 15ish psi and a lame tune @ 5300 rpm we are alredy well beyond block splitting terr, so new springs and fixing the gate is next in order.
Thanks for the props.
The spare leg also had to be sliced and the flange spun in order to meet up to the exhisting 3 bolt on the midpipe. All in all i was quite happy to keep the exhisting exhaust intact, which resulted in a seamless install of the rest out the back. Everything lined up perfect.
Now onto the few things that have to be tweaked.
Im surprised with whomever fabbed the hotside. Everyone knows a wastegate should be mounted at a 45 to the pipe leading the the turbo. We have MAJOR boost creep even with the 44mm gate just running on the spring (13psi/.9 BAR) By the end of the runs its was closing in on 18psi, which deems the controller useless for now until we fix that. I have to drop hot side now and refab. Exhaust has a real hard time making a 90* turn to exit the gate....never gonna control the turbo like that.
At 15ish psi and a lame tune @ 5300 rpm we are alredy well beyond block splitting terr, so new springs and fixing the gate is next in order.
Thanks for the props.
if you would like i could bring in the maker of the turbo kit and you guys can battle it out, the overall benefit of this is more knowledge for the members.
either way the way this turned out it woulda been cheaper to just make you do the whole kit.
btw an update my heads and intake are finally in the last stage of work. so i will see you shortly!