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Overdue update

Been working on the car off and on. I ended needed few more parts so I would work for a day then wait until the part came in and repeat.

One of the biggest holdups was finding a shop to fabricate those square flanges for the external wastegate. A shop agreed to make them and charged me an outrageous $200 for them. Oh well, I've thrown a lot at parts so far so why stop now.

I was able to bolt most of the turbo assemblies together, O2 housings, test pipes. Then I realized the passenger test pipe was not aligning to the O2 housing flange. Looks like the V3 manifold I received has a slightly different angle where the turbo meets which offsets the flange.

I emailed Amin today and ordered an O2 housing for the just passenger side. I'll be attempting to put the engine back into the car tomorrow, and mockup the pipes for the external wastegate. I'll have them tack welded this week and then test fit again. Then go back and get them TIG welded and bolt on for good. By then the O2 housing should be here. The end is near!