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Sweet CRX.....good pipe work, Welds look good to. Did you just use regular black paint for the piping?

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Very cool. Good luck finishing the project.

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Holy ---- balls. I can tell you've put some serious time and thought into your project. Looks great. I like the merged WG to DP.

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so is it a automatic er no ?

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haha, no its a stick. The downpipe and tailpipe were ceramic coated. I bought the stuff from:

http://www.techlinecoatings.com/BulkExhaust.htm

Bake at 300 degrees for an hour to do a pre cure, and once you run the car, it will fully cure with exhaust temps. It was about $60 for 12oz which was plenty and have a lot left. The main section of the exhuast was just painted with high temp exhuast paint.

I tacked everything up and had my buddy finish all the welds. He is certified with countless types, and has about 25 years under his belt. He did a great job on the downpipe, and his welding on the IC was great as well.

The car is not a daily driver, and at this point not really sure what it is. I had originally wanted to put it into the scca when started 4 years ago, but the urge to transplant B and turbo overcame that. I may still be able to enter it for exibition events. As soon as the car is running I have 2 things planned to keep me busy. First I am designing a full underbody aero system with the help of a Aero Engineer grad that was in my fraternity. And secondly, i'm designing a custom servo driven linear actuator for a automated rear spoiler system to adjust rear downforce with speed and cornering. I should hopefully have that done within the next year.

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very nice, and i like how you did the IC piping

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might wanna buy a b18 block and start buildin.. that b16 wont last too long w/ it's stock bottom end and that t3/t04 :o

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Wow, thats all I can say, love the charge pipe route. Very innovative.

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nice fab work. like the side exhaust and the modified end tanks on the ic. good work

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I am pretty confident the b16a block will last as long as I use it with 8-9 lbs boost. The reason you see blown up blocks with boost is the retarts that are running fmu's and don't know how to tune a engine. I'm not coming into this blind, and I know what it will take to run detonation free. With planning and knowledge, anything can be done. But like I said I am going to sleeve a block in the next 2 years, but that is for running up to 20 lbs. And with that, I will be upgrading other components as well to hold 350+ hp.