collector pipe

[Clydesdale]

I have an issue with an exhaust leak, it is the collector pipe, the one that the manifold , pass bank, bolts too on one side, and the crossover pipe bolts too on a second side, then it shoots right up into the turbo.

I have replaced the manifold bolts, re torqued and aligned the assembly eleventy gazillion times.. and I still that paper rustling sounding fft fft fft from the passenger side.

My thought now is to take a piece of 3" pipe, solid chunk, bend it up and around, so both exhaust manifolds connect to it via a piece of quarter plate for a flange, and then tee into it off the turbo.


I should be able to get the "positioning flex" I need from the turbo fitting area, and ti will all snug together.

How functional would that be?

Or is it like a million and one other ideas I get that have no functional merit?

(what I do gives the mind HOURS in a day to free float)

None of the boneyards have an IDI turbo truck, which leads me to Main question,

sub part A, does an OBS P-choke have the same/similar collector?

Sub part B, if so, can I use it?

Sub part C, how much fab will be required?

 

[sootman73]

all i can say is that nothing from a PSD turbo system will work. i believe i've asked about psd turbo stuff and nothing is the same.

i think the psd is a pulse type turbo system? an up pipe from each manifold straight to the turbo to take advantage of each exhaust pulse. like the hypermax system for the idi.

 

[Clydesdale]

That is kinda what I am thinking... splitting the two up pipes into one collector will be the engineering feat.