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Old Oct 1, 2020 | 02:59 PM
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What OTS headers are my fellow A-body friends running? I have a 71 cutlass currently N/a but going turbo over the winter. From the looks of it I can find a down and forward header very easily on the passenger side, but the driver side might be more of a problem? Looks like there might be interference with the steering shaft. Was contemplating driver side down and back like a regular header and having it loop under the trans and come up the passenger side under the passenger header? Looking to place my turbo in the passenger front.
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Old Oct 2, 2020 | 06:15 AM
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There are a bunch of A body setups using a log manifold on the pass side, and a header on the DS with a pipe running down under the converter, conn to the rear of the PS. I have done a couple. Dont know what OTS means, lol.
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What OTS headers are my fellow A-body friends running? I have a 71 cutlass currently N/a but going turbo over the winter. From the looks of it I can find a down and forward header very easily on the passenger side, but the driver side might be more of a problem? Looks like there might be interference with the steering shaft. Was contemplating driver side down and back like a regular header and having it loop under the trans and come up the passenger side under the passenger header? Looking to place my turbo in the passenger front.
Holley makes a cast iron log setup for this configuration.

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Old Oct 4, 2020 | 09:09 PM
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OTS= off the shelf.
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i used flipped ls3 manifolds.
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