Just wanted to share my progress with everyone. Hope you enjoy :)
Here's the engine the way it was



After a little paint



Wrapped downpipe and sprayed manifold with copper stuff. Replaced all gaskets and replaced bolts with studs. Turbo/manifold gasket part #ES72811 from Advance Auto :thumbsup



And fabbed a heat sheild for the turbo





Also wanted to let the turbo breathe a little better so I had 3in run from the dp to a Greddy muffler with no cats or converters. It has a 3in inlet and 5in tip, it's huge. Had to go under the frame with the piping too.







Now I have something in the rear as low as the front.



It has a very nice sound, doesn't sound ricer-ish at all. Just a nice deep hollow tone.
Now I just need to finish polishing my valve cover and fiberglass the lower sections on my door panels :)

very clean car man . i thought my bay was clean but damn . What is up with the speakers in the door tho . how did you mmount them and seal them . It looks like half sits in the stock grill . i think it may also look a lot better with the middle tail tinted as well

They're just open in the back for now, I plan on fiberglassing/sealing it up, smoothing out the stock grill and painting the lower section black next weekend.

I thought my engine bay was clean too. Where did you find the pot for the heat shield? I need to get one on mine asap. Your car is clean as hell too!

And is that a wire tuck?

Dude, that looks crazy clean. I wish my paint had that luster still.

But yeah, the speaker door panel thing looks odd. Nice work getting it going from your wreck you had previously.

Is that a bungie cord holding your ECU connector in place? LOL. clean bay though.

Lol yeah, the clips were broke when I got the car and it stalls out every 5 minutes if I don't have that.

very, very nice!!! looks clean!

couple of questions thought, with that muffler, is it a under axle cat back exaust? and if it is, does it kinda come out at an angle due to it going under the rear cross member? i love that exaust!!!!


and where did you get the CF spoiler? love it!

really clean dude, keep it up!

looks great what size intercooler are you using thats the perfect size for my gst.

Is that really a cooking pot you hav covering your turbo exhuast, I mean its cool you used it but I would thing you would trim the edge off so it doesnt still look like a Pot LOL Correct me if I am wronge though.

I like that muffler, can you tell me what model it is?
How much did you pay for it?