It seems like exhausting would be as easy doesn't it? Why it is just sort of a way of passing gas. Wrong! At first the task seemed straight forward. Simple put the turbo in the precise location so that the single and dual turbochargers can be interchanged when changing the engine. Throw in the fact that the body of the car lifts 4 inches, (that's 10 centimetres in Canada), to adjust the running height and install the landing gear for transporting the car. This is accomplished by dual air cylinders that operate from the cockpit. However it is the body and not the power train frame (engine tranny and overdrive, and steering all stay together, but the exhaust goes through the body panel and must be aligned in such a way as to allow the movement. Well after several exhausting weeks of trial and error, with different configurations and several types of flexible pipe and "multi" manifolds being fabricated and then cut and re welded and chopped and then thrown out only to try another way we finally got! The bonus is that it will protect the PLASTEC body from the 1600+ degrees of exhaust gas that must past by and it will also imitate the design of the F-86 50 calibre gun ports that will be airbrushed at the nose and uses no flexible tubing. A little art and a little practicality. Good work guys. The crew is exhausted and the work is not over.
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