Feb 6th, 2006 Update:
*Bumps in the road is the persistent metaphor. New serpentine system is almost finished, waiting on a new alternator pulley and need to fabricate an alternator-to-block spacer. The intake charge piping will be a complex series of bends, tubing is on order. Still waiting on the Intercooler too.

The original "mini-merge" exhaust manifold idea got scrapped in favor of a simpler and just as effective "log" style manifold; the last of the parts for that should arrive tomorrow. I did however orient the turbo housings and determine the routing of the intake, exhaust, and BOV routing. I finally finished the exhaust tip reverse-merge collector and exhaust tips, as well as tacking them to the back muffler.