Update.

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Turbo is not seated correctly to the manifold, I need to have a spacer made as the comp. housing hits the runners, so right now there is a home made spacer placed between the manifold and turbo to get a rough estimate at how much room i have to play with before the turbo will hit the strut tower. Enjoy.

where did you get that manifold and wastegate?

Good ol' ebay. Manifold is a greddy replica, wastegate is a 50mm hks replica.

hmm thats what i thought it looked like... i hope it works out for you, because if thats the usual ssac special, you might have gotten into some serious problems

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...15_2005003.jpg

It will be fine, I am getting it heat treated to prevent any cracking. The piece it self is superb looking.

The manifold looks good, but it looks like you don't have much room between the turbo and strut tower. I hope you got some stiff motor mounts. Also might want to make a bracket or something to support that turbo if you're worried about the manifold cracking.

Looks REALLY nice in there. :thumbsup

I wish the tranny for my car wasn't so shitty. Then I could get one of those.. Mmmm... Bewst...

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sexy...looks good...
ebay is the

shiiiiiiiiiit that looks real good. definately gonna be a beast.

There is a lot more room than it looks like in the pic, but yes I do have semi-solid motor mounts so its all good. I will be fabbing up some braces, and adding a flex section for my downpipe. The tricky thing is going to be squeezing in a 3" downpipe, not much room back there. If I had my parts the car would be running by now, but everything I have ordered is on backorder so I cant do .

Looks good!
You might want to think about welding/bolting some supports on the manifold. Especially with a turbo that big. Those have been known to crack and I dont think heat treating will add any strength. People have welded nuts to a suitable area on the headers and then used some flat bar to bolt to that and then a solid part of the car/engine.
I just dont want to see your exhaust coming out from under the hood instead of the back of the car :)