JDL Auto Design FR-S/BRZ LSX swap headers.
 

Theses beauties are going on a car here at the shop. We will also have a 2-1 Y pipe that will mate with existing catbacks. :D

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Those are very pretty. I want to see pics once they're on the car, too.

Wha.... wow.

LOL that's insane. Gorgeous machine.

Theres a few things on this car that still need to be relocated and there will be heat shields for all the vital areas.

That is amazing.

Why isn't this post prefaced with NSFW? That is automotive porn.

Guess I should finally start a thread for this haha.......... to be continued

Yay Vorshlags thread has competition now.

My god those are the most beautiful exhaust manifolds ive ever seen. Period.

Oh my.

I MUST......................

Will you guys be releasing a swap kit as well?

This thread is useless without video, especially sound. My god that must sound like a chorus of angels orgasming or something.

Stop making me consider savings for an lsx swap instead if a turbo kit and built short block...

If i dont swap my engine out for an LSx, ill buy these anyway just to hang them on my wall.

Hahah believe me, i just put my built motor in my personal car, hard finding motivation to finish it looking at this LS everyday!...But we do turbo kits too :thumbsup:

But but but....it will throw off the balance of the car :(. Anything over 170whp is ruining the 86!

God damn those headers look amazing

Soon good sir...... soon. The angels will sing from their 8-fluted symphony.

As soon as I get her back in my shop, it should be a quick turn around to game time. Then shortly thereafter tear down begins for LSx phase 2 which again will be only a day or two turn around.

Better idea:

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*raises hand*
What benefit is there to be gained using extractors on a cross-plane crank?

Looks good but what is the price tag?

The price is the price. Those guys do exceptional work and are well paid for that very reason.

More progress

http://jdlautodesign.net/wp-content/...FT86-LSX_1.jpg

Cool looking for show!?

Is there no room to go straight 'down' past the frame rail?

This is gonna bring a lot of heat to the engine compartment.

looks good

How much 😦

My God! F$cking beautiful :D

Your eternal servitude.

I'm betting not considering they didn't do that......

Correct. There isn't room to run them anywhere else.... That said,
You can improve the room and run the collector much lower by removing the front crossmember and replacing it with a tubular unit... People have been doing it to Mustangs for years. I'm alarmed that ANY engine swap guys have kept the stock front crossmember - it's unnecessarily huge and in the way. It would be much easier to make a new crossmember with application-specific motor mounts than trying to make adapters for the stock mounting points, especially because the front crossmember just bolts on and off.

Example is a mustang front crossmember, the single picture is of the FRS front crossmember. Look at how much space you could open up if you replaced that... You could even delete the stock power brace and integrate it, and be left with a proper K-frame.

But look at me ranting. Anyway, anybody who's ever installed an overpipe knows how shit and oversized that stock crossmember is.

It's super tight down by the steering rod.

We have heat shields for the fuse box, etc. I'm not too concerned with NA headers. Plenty of LS setups in other chassis with less room run twin turbos up top with manifolds, downpipes running right by/over the valve covers that produce much more heat. At this level of a build if you can't figure out simple heat management i'm not sure what to tell someone. :)

Uhhh where do i get those red subframe crossmembers from?

The stock subframe really isn't in the way and working around it is quite frankly not that big of a problem for the LSx series. The idea behind the the design of these headers was essentially long tubes in a mid-tube size package. They turned out for lack of a better description....... perfect. Heat management isn't even a concern for me.

With stock LSx manifolds in there, there are gobs of room. A log style for a turbo setup would provide a lot of room as well. Even with these very well designed long tube hybrids there is a surprising amount of room in there still. The FA20 is giant width wise so it makes for a lot of room to play with.

I thought most shops had been forced to use a front sump pan because of the subframe... Some had to cut material from the pan to fit it. Unless you have a custom oil pan...

Insight would be appreciated. Looking at swap options again.

Well, the red one is for a mustang, it was just an example. I was actually lamenting the fact that nobody makes a proper tubular crossmember or K-frame for this car. Numerous advantages, especially to engine swaps, but I don't want to thread-jack this thread to discuss them. There is just too much perfect here already.

Are those vband ends.

Disagree.

Cut OEM mounts off x-member. Then used Cusco FA20 mounts (because I already had them) rotated, and made new mounts from 1UZ to these, wasn't a lot of effort. Certainly a lot less than making a new crossmember would have taken.

Not saying that a new x-member wouldn't have been cool, but IMO it was unnecessary.