Re: beaded ends on the pressure pipe? How Important?
 

Any muffler shop can flare the ends of your pipes for next to nothing. Good luck.

Re: beaded ends on the pressure pipe? How Important?
 

Just a heads up. I ran the jeep yesterday and it ran fine turbo installed. I was averaging 5 pounds of boost but I wouldn't take the engine above 3500RPM. I want to give this turbo some time to settle in.

But the added kick in acceleration is AWSOME!!!

Maybe not much in HP gain, But there is a tremeandous amount of gain in the torque pushing you in the seat. I still gotta few bugs to work out, but all in all, It works flawlessly on its first drive out. I was totally expecting the ECU to cut out at the first sign of boost, But I all worked. NO SERIOUS issues.

So I am in the tuning stage now

And my pipes didn't blow off. All is good

Re: beaded ends on the pressure pipe? How Important?
 

hey, i know you, you are from devilbrad.com

and i have just ran a bead of weld around the end of the pipe before and ir worked great.

Re: beaded ends on the pressure pipe? How Important?
 

you do know that hp is calulated from torque, so any torque gain equals hp gain

Re: beaded ends on the pressure pipe? How Important?
 

update:
I removed the spark plugs to reduce the gap to .028. The detonation is slowly going away. I refilled the tank with premium with lucas oils octane booster. This is what I must do until I get the ignition system with boost referenced retard control installed(ordered).

the performance is beyond my expectations. i just took it for a drive in the calico's on some ruff dirt roads with my 40's and 17" h-2 wheels. the power will still spin those 100 lb tires like nothing(400lb total). This jeep huals some serious ass. And when I can tune it to 8 lbs boost, who knows what can happen.

Re: beaded ends on the pressure pipe? How Important?
 

If I were having detonation on premium fuel and had to add octane booster I'd turn the distributor back some.. but that's just me.

Re: beaded ends on the pressure pipe? How Important?
 

take it eassy on that jeep till you get some tuning done...detonation is no good.. :3

But pretty sweet build... and its fairly clean to...

Re: beaded ends on the pressure pipe? How Important?
 

Looks like it's really coming along, awesome work man. I lay 2 mig beads at the end of my pipes to act as a bead roll. Works great and doesn't take much time at all.

Re: beaded ends on the pressure pipe? How Important?
 

i just did this on my pipes.
after blowing my charge piping 4 times i decided to do something free instead of getting some tbolt clamps.
so far so good.
shits working great

Re: beaded ends on the pressure pipe? How Important?
 

I'd just be warry that the flair end might end up cutting the coupler. Then you're back to square one. The vise grips and hammer/punch ideas will work too, but there's one more - button head screws threaded and jb welded in! They will work great and are easy to do.

FYI unbeaded charge pipes saved my motor. Had a huge boost spike when my WG hose tore, and the coupler where hte stock air box was blew the pipe into the hood. I'd thought I really broke something given the force it hit the hood wiht. :1