finished install of the halo headlights and the bumper ducts
Small block chevy v8 swapped z3
- Thread starter Marquisz3
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finished install of the halo headlights and the bumper ducts
Update cars currently at 850 miles and everything’s genuinely running great, but I’m taking the time to take some things apart and fix a few of the spots that bother me this weekend (it’s pretty much just the exhaust setup)
also while the front end was off I decided to just make a shroud for the radiator fan, temps have actually been really good but it was a while I was in there
Currently I mocked up a bit of piping and it seems like this exhaust setup is going to work, initially I had two dumps I made with small cherry bomb mufflers but that was just to get it running while I tested the entire setup, now I’m getting around to routing it backwards through the car and with a good muffler so it isn’t very loud, the biggest issue happens to be the steering shaft even with the low profile one there isn’t a lot of room to work with So I intended to emulate a turbo setup and basically hood the drivers side forward and around (I’m gonna shorted the pipe too don’t worry so it’s not close to the rad) and dump down the passenger side where I do actually have clearance and connect it with the passenger header
I haven’t taken the drivers side off yet but for an idea of what I ran on each side
Gonna probably finish it up tomorrow my vband clamps get here so I’ll be able to properly weld up the exhaust together and have a permanent rear exit (also finally getting around to putting my rev limiter in my distributor this weekend)
also while the front end was off I decided to just make a shroud for the radiator fan, temps have actually been really good but it was a while I was in there
I haven’t taken the drivers side off yet but for an idea of what I ran on each side
Gonna probably finish it up tomorrow my vband clamps get here so I’ll be able to properly weld up the exhaust together and have a permanent rear exit (also finally getting around to putting my rev limiter in my distributor this weekend)
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Got around to fabricating the connection point now all I need to do is make the U shaped pipe fit up with the vband clamp and run it back to the rear, might just reuse the stock piping from the z3 for now for ease of setup just gonna replace the muffler
My old jeep has the exhaust that ran around the front of the engine. May have looked a little odd but it made for a very tight arrangement with no clearance issues.
Nah. Do a proper job
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exhaust officially routed backwards just needs a midpipe and a muffler
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Still gotta make a midpipe to muffler setup but the front end of the car is back on and I painted the exhaust and headers as well as threw a bit more on the block