[Craig Hendrickson]

Originally Posted by JC455

(snip) Craig- Do you have access to another T F hat? I ask because Ace from PPR could probably have them made inexpensively. He had mentioned before that he could copy/reproduce the old Fire Am oil pan, etc. This may be a good option.

Originally, the lack of T-F hat tooling was the show stopper. But later, having seen the experience of Tribal Tubes (repop of H-O Tri-Y headers, not done by me) convinced me that if there was not a market for 25 sets of specialty headers at a few hundred dollars per, then there certainly was not a market for 25 repopped T-F at several thousand dollars per, regardless of how cheap a repopped bonnet would be.

Also, I was thinking (I know, bad idea)... why couldn't you flip the exhaust manifolds L/R and get the dumps toward the front of the car? Less pipe to deal with, and maybe (???) more room for a turbo (or two ).

If you flip the exhausts manifolds, then the outlets dump right on top of the cross member. The T-F configuration works just fine since there is NO turbo lag and almost no surgery required to the chassis. I built a custom twin turbo in a Gen-2 Bird once and it violated the "must fit with all accessories" design rule.