Like most stories, you only want to hear the parts that make your happy.
Without taking sides, I do remember Ed telling me by phone that the exhaust ports were already opened to 2" at the flange and agreed that a "step" downward would be a bad idea for flow.
Most on the board already know that the header flange was wrong. 3 months is a long time. I can have one water-jetted, in Livonia, (by a Race Shop if they have a cad file) in 30 minutes. Did you do any cad work on Ed's engine before you started fabricating?
I also remember a long discussion with Ed about the Turbos and the Headers not packaging in the car. Normally you would set the Turbo Position (in cad) and design the headers to the package space. Then verify that your fastener clearances were correct, the package clearances were correct, and the final step would be building each header and verifying that your proposal was solid for the package.
That being said, Fabricators/Engineers like Travis Quillen have the Turbo background to do both parts of the design. Ed, I still think that you made a mistake not having Travis help you on this deal.
Tom Vaught
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