Quite elaborate. I remember back in the 70's a friend of mine had a Spearco Pinto. The turbo went bad and he opted to convert to a V-8 (289). I know, kind of sad now, but back then it was not a big deal. Anyway, what he wound up doing is is just inverting and reversing the stock exhaust manifolds so they exited towards the front of the car. It was pretty ugly, odd and he still had issues with clearance getting around the crossmember.
While this is a far more sanitary installation the headers still need to snake their way through the car. I guess it just comes with "the territory" of owning a Pinto. 61,404 reads on this post. Is that a record?