Special inlet manifold/plenum chamber for an Escort Turbo engine fitted in a Kit Car

Our customer had fitted a Ford Escort Turbo engine into a Caterham/Lotus 7 type of kit car. The original inlet manifold for the transverse mounting in the Escort wasn't suitable for the inline orientation in the kit car, so a new, or rather radically modified, manifold was needed.
This was a fairly straightforward aluminium welding job. The customer brought us the large aluminium tube already cut to size & with holes cut where the (already cut down) inlet manifold needed to be attached.

We then had to weld on a disc at each end of the tube - at one end a blanking plate with a threaded hole for a sensor

and at the other end, one to take the throttle body.

This shows the throttle body mounted in position.