Hey Howard! How are you doing? Ok, here is some recent pics.
Had to ditch the beautiful headers that came on the car. Clearance was at about 1/16" off frame in many spots w/o the exhaust gaskets even in yet. Coatings or wrap will do almost nothing with zero clearance and no room for shields too. Since this is a street car, there will be scenarios when coming off the freeway, at greatest heat soak, and then hit city traffic at stop lights in possible 90+ ambient temps. Not chancing it, so made some thick stainless log style manifolds. Gained so much room back and was able to really shorten all of my hose/tubing lengths and position turbos exactly where they fit the best while saving weight doing it. I was also able to tuck a small resonator each side right at the back of the motor!! You can see the exhaust exits at this point, and will be building an X pipe directly at the merge. I am keeping the tips and body exit location a secret until car is near completion though. Lol. From the air horns intaking fresh air and then going through turbo, then water/air intercoolers, then to the air horns in the intake is 36"! From the exhaust valve, through the manifold and turbo, then the resonator, X pipe, and finally out the tip, is also 36". Very compact for the complexity and should be a great set up.
Had to make a small vacuum block out of stainless to sum all of the ITB signals into a solid vacuum signal for sensors etc, and mounted it on the heavily modded rear coolant crossover pipe. I will also be running the coolant through the Tial wastegates, but plumbing is super clean. All vacuum and water lines are ss tube and what you see in the pics here is nearly completed with all needed plumbing. Put the oil cooler on the rear subframe. Come to find out R8 coils fit the 1UZ perfectly and seal completely, so using those for my COP ignition and ditch the from distributors cleaning the motor up.
Got the heat exchangers/resevoirs for the intercoolers mounted now. Had to build custom fiberglass shrouds for the fans. These fans move a surprisingly huge amount of air for the size, so they will actually help cool and keep air circulating around engine (the fans point at motor for their exits) if stuck in traffic. I will have vent openings in the rear clam over the motor, so the hot air can exit simply by rising up, helped by the IC fans.
Did an adjustable rear sway bar. Funny story actually. I was looking at a 7/8" universal hollow bar kit and right before I pulled the $800 trigger, I remembered I had a 67 Camaro rear one that I bought 30 years ago sitting in the garage. It only saw a couple thousand miles of use, 30 years ago. Hanging on to this dam thing for 30 years, tried to sell it a couple times also and never sold it. Well, I find this thing in the garage and low and behold, it is 7/8". Hmmm, surely there is zero chance of it fitting, right? The more measurements I took, the more I was in disbelief! It got to the point that it atleast had to be tried in car. Snaked it in, and low and behold, you simply could not of designed a better bar to fit the chassis even if you were custom bending one yourself!!! The links are in a near perfect arc and linear with the coilovers, I was able to make it adjustable from 250#-650#, the mounts land right on the rear frame with simple custom made mounts, the direction of deflection is linear with the mount, it curves perfectly under the trans and still allows use of belly pan, and my total cost was about $80 in new mounts and some rod ends. Hahhaaa. I believe it is made by Addco still. Rear 7/8" 67 Camaro sway bar. If it has the bent ends like mine, it will work.