Fact
Also I need to finish this downpipe and need a second set of hands. Anyone interested? Wed, fri, sat, sun all work.
BUILD SHIT!
I might be able to lend a hand tonight!
BEERS. PIZZA. WINGS. AXLE SPINS. CATS. CATS. CATS. GOLD CHAINS. BACKSTREET BOYS. and BEER again.
FINE! I DONT REALLY FEEL LIKE WORKING BUT I ALREADY WATCHED WOLVERINE. SO I GUESS ILL DRINK BEER AND LOOK AT MY CAR.
MOSTLY ACCURATE
^^ Or we can just drink beer and look at the car?
Feasible solution.
I grabbed a lot of good beer yesterday.
such beer, many productive
something of the sort!
ha so I tried finishing the downpipe after many beers the other week and just got frustrated. Let it all simmer for a few days and hit it hard last night. I had to trim some from this plate above the frame that ties it to the firewall. I will reinforce this and paint it once I know I dont have to modify anything further. I had to cut above where the pipe sits to slide it in place. I actually cant believe it worked.
Also welded some aluminum which I am getting better at.
Pics!
All tacked together. So many bends. This is after I polished the pipe. This is regular old stainless. I will probably have this coated but hey its the thought that counts.
welded
BOV siqqqqqqq ppssshhht pssshhhhhhththhththhtt
How it sits. Rad is in too btw ha
Next up. Mount some wastegates. Thanks innovative for the tials
That first pic looks photoshopped.
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He’s always touching up his work with PS. In person it looks like galvanized piping hanging off the back of a building.
:snky: :snky:
I should start instgrammmming that shit. RETRO WELDZ. Siq
What size is your downpipe ? It’s a 4.21 flange right ?
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Downpipe starts at 5" on the S480. I have a 5" to 4" reducer cone in there a few inches out from the turbo.
jesus. LOL yeah i can see the troubles then making it all work and fit nice. i guess i wasn’t really paying that close of attention to see how large the piping actually was.
The biggest prob was finding a slope in toward the motor because i had to get on that side of the frame rail and not making spark plug access bad. You could change plugs in ~5min as it sits. Next issue getting between the starter, bellhousing, and frame to get down there. The opening was ~4" so after some grinding and thinking I was able to open it up above the pipe and sneak it down that way.
It was really a pain in the ass.
No oval?
I’m sure jay could have convinced you to just do everything out the hood :lol:
My S2000 turbo kit was a PITA to take on and off because how everything was built. it looked very nice and was functional, but i had to lift the motor from the engine mount to put it on, turbo had to be on BEFORE i mounted the manifold or it was impossible to put on/off it just sucked. there’s nothing worse than having to take parts off just to get at another part.
it may not be the easiest way, but at least it will be much better to work on
i really had no idea how time consuming fab work was especially completely custom stuff like this built from scratch until i spent an evening over at Jay’s while he was working on my car. i have a total new respect for it now.
You are using two gates? Why and where?