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Old Nov 2, 2012 | 12:39 PM
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Default Crazy wild turbo kit build
There's a shop I had to go to for some AN fittings, never even knew the shop existed. Anyways while he was looking for the fitting I was snooping around the shop and seen this 4th gen he was building a turbo kit for so I snapped a pic.. WTF?!

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Old Nov 2, 2012 | 12:47 PM
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That looks like a ******* nightmare to work on
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Old Nov 2, 2012 | 01:03 PM
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Wow those pipes are as twisted as Charlie Mansions conscience.
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Old Nov 2, 2012 | 01:17 PM
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Looks like a mechanical squid to me.
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Wow that looks like fun... i bet it gets hot under there..
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There is a couple sneaky lil Precisions up front there...

But that piping is atrocious...no need for that kind of debauchery...
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Saw this on FB. 1320 video posted it up. Someone commented and said it looked like a catfish ate and octopus, ha.
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Ya it's sweet fab work, deff different and thinking outta the box on this build!
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Hmm,ya think I'll stick with truck/c6 manifolds
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Ya it's sweet fab work, deff different and thinking outta the box on this build!
They were definately thinking outside of a box.... Does LSD come in a box?
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Looks like thay were maybe trying to make equal length manifolds? For what ever reason.
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What shop?
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they are high on life. they are making it 100000000000000000000x harder than it NEEDS to be
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where does the radiator go?
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To much work.
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they are high on life. they are making it 100000000000000000000x harder than it NEEDS to be
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looks nice, but people tend to over engineer ****
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Have fun changing spark plugs
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What shop?

Atleast to what it looks like they are all equal length pipes for the manifolds.
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Originally Posted by Jeremy@RPMTransmissions
They were definately thinking outside of a box.... Does LSD come in a box?
does LSD come in a box....haha thats some funny **** lol...looks like they were trying to build equal runners.....A+ for epic fail! just wayyyyy too much for something manifolds would suffice for. Dont agree on the fab skills either
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wow a set of reversed truck manifolds would simplify this for sure.
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