Chris decided that the turbo h22 needed a little more airflow, so I fired up the welder and bandsaw and went to work

I cut out the aluminum plate for the front of the "intake" using the bandsaw:



Here it is after the first cut & a little bending to fit the curve of the bumper (clamped it to my welding table and pushed down, I must be gaining weight):



a little mockup after cutting the Ching Chong pipe, only ballers use masking tape when fabbing ----:





I am well aware of the fact that it looks like a shoe, I would've made the thing more tapered but there is an intercooler pipe right behind it that limits what I can do there.

after some shitty welding:





Then I went to town on the "porting", and gave myself a ton of metal splinters:



Some shitty pics of it sitting in place (it will be painted black and screwed to the bumper):





The car is on the lift so it was hard to get a good shot of it in place. Tomorrow I will make the piping up to the turbo, it was getting late by the time I got this far (we spend most of the day shipping people the wrong turbo on purpose, which leaves little time for fabbing).

 

Look at you mister fabricator. That is tight ----. Nice.

 

People spend $500 on a part that might gain them 2-3 horsepower...we are hoping this gives us at least 4

 

Nice ---- i like it good job

 

Thats too nice to put on my car lol.

 

I bet that bitch is gonna whistle like a mother ****** in boost.
Looks sweet!

 

bad ***. I want a TIG

 

if you get one dont let anyone know you have it, they'll never leave :P

 

definitely...I just tossed it in there for the pics/to check the fit