I’ve been slowly plodding on with the mountain of metalwork on the truck, and wanted to get the front end back on out of the way. I decided to get the firewall partially welded in while I could get at it easily so stripped the intake manfold off and taped it all up ready to work on it. After a bit of hammering I tacked it in then went back over it and filled in the gaps.I really need to get some cleco fasteners it would have been a million times easier and a lot better.

I won a Corvette intake manifold on ebay to replace the truck manifold and make the turbo install a bit easier with the lack of EGR to block up. It’s also better at high revs which is where the turbos will be happy, and a lot better to look at. I couldn’t resist getting the turbos out and mocking it up to get an idea of how it will look. They’ll sit a lot further forward than in the pic, and the left hand one will be clocked round to face the intake. Plenty of space at the moment but I’m sure it’ll end up a lot more cramped by the time it’s on the road.