Small update, finished the gearbox crossmember, will post photos of the finished article up tonight. So finally started work on the exhaust downpipe last night.

drilled the holes

and started playing about with some bends. The bore size is 3" :shock:

just got a few more bends to sort out to negotiate the steering column, then going to get it all tig welded up when im happy with it then will polish it up on the mop.