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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GTTRacing97GTS" data-source="post: 1569113" data-attributes="member: 22993">Took the car to Nick @ North Performance in Mohnton. Shop is pretty much at the end of the track at Maple Grove. He does some awesome welding and fabricating. It became apparent pretty quickly that the hot pipes I had would not fit. I bought these specifically for minimal modifications but like everything else custom, wasn't even close.[ATTACH=full]42965[/ATTACH]The awful front bracketry of the 94-95 5.0 was the first problem. The enormous brackets didn't leave much room to maneuver, and I only run an alternator anyhow, so we decided to ditch the driver side all together and modify the passenger side. [ATTACH=full]42961[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]42962[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]42963[/ATTACH]The passenger bracket was cut to eliminate the smog pump delete pulley, which opened up space for the collector header to fit. Just had to source a new belt for the Alt/WP/Crank and everything was good to go. [ATTACH=full]42966[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]42967[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]42968[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]42969[/ATTACH]Both headers needed to be modified, and the mid-pipe had to be fabbed from scratch because of this. Kind of defeated the purpose of buying the hot pipes to begin with. Lesson learned I suppose.[ATTACH=full]42970[/ATTACH]This is pretty much where the snowballing began though. This was not my intentions when setting out with the turbo install. I planned on just fabbing it up, hitting the dyno and driving it for the summer. However, I don't like going back and redoing things but every step leads to another, and yea... Here we are. I never really perfected all the swap components once I started driving it. Most of it is still that initial "rigging" to get things to fit, or work, or hold me over; wiring all over the place, hoses pieced together, rough bracketry, etc. etc. The turbo install has been the nudge to "finish" all the stuff in a more "professional" manner. I enjoy the work and all, I just don't have endless time to work on it. Hopefully this won't take me all summer and hopefully it's enjoyable for everyone to follow along.</blockquote>