Snowman,

I was going to say from the first pic, it looked like you have plenty of room to work with, & it seems you found a way to have enough room.

Where the heat riser section bolts to the intake manifold.
I would run a block off gasket, that exhaust manifold is going to heat up your intake manifold, real fast & at a higher temperture.

You are going to get a lot more underhood heat you will want to some how get rid of that heat.

Running a turbo gives you so much underhood heat ,you would probably want to run a hood vent or fender vents.
I do not think you will do that type of mod/s to your car, just saying.
You could send out both of your manifolds to get surfaced evenly to give you a better seal.

From the pic of your exhaust pipe, are you going to mount the T4 flange to the jagged secton?

If so, I would not mount the turbo that low, if you could move it up & a bit more forward I would think that would be a better position for your turbo..

You are doing good, keep it up!

MBHD


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