**Twin Turbo 67 Dart Project**

Was watching some you tube videos of boosted stuff the other day, exhaust got cherry red almost instantly on a few of them. Know nothing about this stuff but what I have read. Page 62 of "Street Turbocharging" makes mention that schedule 40 weld els are adequate for most turbo applications. Goes on to say that for long term durability and strength at the high temperatures in a turbo application, it is generally recommended that schedule 40 or thicker be used. Considering it is going to take a bit of boost to do what you want to do it has me wondering how the thin tubing of a set of mild steel headers will hold up, as well as what effect that long tube from the collector to the turbo will have. Most, if not all, of the turbo headers I have seen have the turbo flange at the end of the collector. Again, I know next to nothing about turbocharging, just thinking out loud. I understand that there is more than 1 way to skin a cat.... I do know that years ago I helped a friend with drag car on a regular basis. His headers were Jet Hot coated, and you could literally grab the headers 30 seconds after the car had made a pass down the strip...might want to consider coating instead of heat wraps and blankets....

I have checked into Jet Hot Coating High Heat HVT Paint etc. I will not be wrapping the exhaust at all.

Mostly from what I have researched is the turbo Flange is what gets really hot. I will be running no more than 15lbs of boost most likely alot less to get to my goal with the engine itself making close to 500hp on its own. So Right around 8-9 lbs of boost should get me there.
The Meth should also help to get the Exhaust Gas Temperatures down some I would think.

I know of several guys running the same type of set up on the exhaust with good success even at 15+ lbs of boost. This is not a daily driver so I think It will be ok until I upgrade like I almost always do.

Good thing about these threads is everyone gets to learn what works and what doesn't without spending any of their own $$$, I would say that is a pretty good thing:-D