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Hi guys, I know this is home made turbo but I thought I'd share something I've been working on. Had some spare 180 degree bends laying around so I thought I'd try and make a header for my prelude.

Started by making a Y pipe
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Made a jig and cut and tacked 1 runner first
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Stated piecing it together. Held on by tape at this stage. Speeds things up a lot!
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Tacked
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next to the ebay one
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checking fitment
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welded some of it up
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Got my gas lense and it made a big difference!
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I actually finished welding up all the runners tonight but haven't taken anymore pics. Been welding for 3.5 months now so still much to improve!

Thanks for looking!

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Looks sexy :6

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Sure looks damn good. BTW what is a gas lense? Also what kinda of welder do you have?

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looks titts. What are you using to cut the tube?

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---- looks good man, keep up the work. how hard do you think it will be to get to the runners where 2 and 3 meet the flange?

lol at the whitey bend for #4, one bend too few i guess.

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Lol! yeah number 4! pretty much used up all the materials I had for that!

I used a bandsaw to cut the tubes. Kinda guessed the angles really.

A gas lense helps give a much better flow of gas. Gives a much cleaner weld from what I can tell.

With runner 2 and 3 I just broke it off the flange, tacked the ends on a piece of flat and welded it up.

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looks damn nice. i hope you form the runners to match the head flange though

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what kind of a blade are you guys using for these band saws when cutting pipe/metal? My dad has one, but I doubt it would be good to shove metal into his woodcutting blade?

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wouldn't be good, but its been done before. cutting fluid (wd 40) is your friend

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Most likely he is using a horizontal bandsaw with a really slow cutting speed, not like a normal bandsaw meant for wood (although i have toyed with the idea of swapping pulleys on one of my dads upright saws so i can have a big upright one for metal)


header looks tits btw