In my never-ending quest to bore everyone here with tiny details, I have 2 more pics uploaded and ready to share from last night.
For the 2 liter engine, the exhaust & turbo setup includes 2 external wastegate/blowoff valves. Routing the various exhaust pipes is a bit of a challenge under-hood.
On Monday night, as a couple of friends were over bench-racing, we came up with a vision to route both wastegate dumps out through the passenger's side fender. The vision is these 1-1/2" pipes should have the general appearance of a double-barreled shotgun pointing out of the fender well.
To that end, I broke out an apparatus which I'm not crazy about using, but is sometimes a necessary evil. It's the old "Hole Saw on an Extension". At least in this case, the wrist-twisting shouldn't be too severe, as it's only a 1-5/8" hole saw, and a 20V DeWalt drill. Not enough to put me in the hospital with a broken arm or busted jaw...
After cutting a couple of holes through the small area between the strut tower and firewall on the passenger's side (lining the holes up with an existing opening on the inner fender reinforcement "box", I was able to test fit the 2 wastegate dump pipes.....
I think it's going to work pretty well in terms of plumbing ease, freeing up some space under-hood, and looking cool. Now, I have to bring myself to cut hole(s) in the outer fender, and fabricate some type of decorative flange to surround the opening.
Steve
