For the apple cider cheesecake pie? This is to be baked like a pie no water bath necessary correct

I was going to do a pecan crust. Will that throw the whole thing off

It shouldn't. This recipe has a blind-baked crust with a separate custard filling. It is not baked together as an integrated pie (raw crust + raw filling).

As long as you pour the custard filling into any blind-baked pie crust, you should be good.